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; enrolling in any specialty requires a signed PADI medical statement and dive insurance. Bubblemaker and PADI Seal Team programs bring in divers from age 8, ahead of open-water certification. The center has no house reef: every guided dive is a shore or boat trip to one of its seven named sites, with a custom-built RIB covering the boat trips. Two of those sites carry entry requirements worth knowing before booking: El Cabrón reaches 23m and needs Open Water or Advanced certification, while Arona goes to 35m and is restricted to Advanced and Deep Diver certified divers. 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 calls itself personal, not volume-driven, a claim its reviews echo consistently.

Blue Water Diving's reviews span close to seven years, and staff warmth paired with safety-focused, personal instruction is the theme that comes up again and again. The same instructors are named repeatedly across multiple years, and several reviewers describe a third or fourth trip with the center, not a one-off holiday dive. Handling nervous first-timers and children well is a recurring strength, alongside praise for the boat and equipment. Negative reviews are a small minority of the total, and none describes a safety or organizational problem.