Easydivers

Easydivers runs guided dive tours to ART Reef by Vhils, Portugal's first underwater art exhibition. Thirteen sculptural pieces, made from repurposed materials off a former EDP coal-fired power station, sit a mile off the Albufeira coast at around 12 metres and are left for coral to colonise over time. The centre operates from Albufeira Marina, running two-dive morning boat trips and a single afternoon dive to eight named sites along the central Algarve coast, among them Arrifes-Claire, 2 Ancoras, Pedra da Oura, Valados Wall, Cela 12/20 Wall, Pedra do Alto and Caneca Wall. The centre also dives the Ocean Revival wreck park, where the Almeida Carvalho wreck reaches 30 metres, exactly the Advanced Open Water depth limit. Easydivers keeps the shop open seven days a week year-round, with no seasonal closure recorded, so trips can be booked at any time of year. Sea conditions on this stretch of the central Algarve coast change through the year, so it is worth confirming current water temperature and visibility directly with the centre when booking a trip, and packing exposure protection accordingly.

The centre is PADI-registered (Dive Centre no. 799273) and holds Portugal's RNAAT (no. 130/2009) and IPDj (nos. 060/061/062) tourism-activity licenses; its SSI directory listing records it at Instructor Training Center level. Courses run the full SSI ladder from Introduction through professional and technical training, alongside PADI's Open Water to Divemaster progression. Mário Silva, the CEO and an SSI Master Instructor, heads a ten-person team named on the centre's own site: Paulo Bicho as COO and SSI Instructor Trainer, six further SSI instructors and skippers (one of them, Fernando Ribeiro, also PADI-ticketed), and two shop staff.

A Discover Scuba Diving session goes to a maximum of 12 metres, open to anyone over 10 years old and 1.40 metres tall. Guided fun dives, equipment rental, and a retail shop selling diving, snorkelling and spearfishing gear round out the offer from the same marina base, alongside an indoor training tank and classroom space for course work.

Easydivers holds a consistently strong standing across the review platforms it appears on, despite one carrying far more reviews than the other. Divers call the pricing fair for what's included, and repeatedly praise the newer dive boats and the condition of the rental kit; the operation as a whole reads as organised and safety-conscious in review after review. Several credit patient teaching for nervous or first-time divers, and one independent account names Mário Silva specifically for leading dives well; trip-specific reviews also credit guides beyond the core team, among them Daniel and Scotty, for similar qualities. A small share of reviews sit at the bottom of the scale, without a consistent complaint running through them.