Blue Water Diving

Blue Water Diving is a PADI 5-Star IDC dive center in Puerto Rico, on Gran Canaria's south coast, run by Chris Drummond and Kate McMillan. The couple opened their first dive center on mainland Spain roughly two decades ago and relocated to Gran Canaria in 2015 to set up Blue Water Diving, drawn by year-round diving conditions. Kate started diving at 16 on a holiday in Egypt and has spent 15 years as a professional instructor; Chris started diving on holiday in Greece, later ran a watersports center in mainland Spain, and has progressed through the PADI ranks to Master Instructor.

The center runs the full training pathway, from a first Discover Scuba Diving try-dive through professional-level Divemaster and Instructor Development Course training, alongside specialty courses in sidemount and night diving. Boat dives go out on a custom-built RIB to sites along the south coast, including Arona, Cermona, and El Cabrón, with shore dives available too. Trips run in morning and afternoon windows most days, and hotel pickup is offered across the south of the island. The center keeps groups small and describes itself as personal rather than volume-driven, a claim echoed consistently in its reviews.

Blue Water Diving holds 4.9 stars across 813 TripAdvisor reviews and 4.8 across independent Google reviews, with visible reviews spanning nearly seven years. The dominant theme is staff warmth paired with a safety-focused, personalized approach: reviewers name the same instructors repeatedly across multiple years and specifically contrast the center's small-group style with larger operations. Several reviewers are returning customers, describing a third or fourth trip with the center rather than a one-off holiday dive. Nervous first-timers and children come up often as a strength, alongside praise for the boat and equipment. Complaints are rare relative to the review volume, with only a small share falling outside the top rating bands and no visible pattern around safety or organization.