Tenerife Diving Academy

Csaba and Levi left desk careers behind to run Tenerife Diving Academy from a beachfront unit in Abades, a quiet fishing village on the island's southeast coast. Csaba was a diplomat; Levi spent over twenty years as a lead architect. Both now hold SSI instructor-trainer status, and the centre carries SSI Diamond Instructor Training Center recognition on top of its earlier PADI 5-star rating, still running both course ladders in parallel. Group sizes stay deliberately small. The centre frames this as quality over quantity rather than volume throughput, and it also runs regular beach clean-ups around Abades. The house reef sits a short walk from the shop, with volcanic terrain and regular sightings of turtles, rays, and, in winter, angel sharks. Beyond the house reef, a dedicated shore-diving programme reaches along the coast to El Porís, Las Eras, Montaña Amarilla, El Puertito, El Balito, Tabaiba, Radazul, and La Caleta, split into clearly labelled beginner and advanced routes and chosen fresh each day around conditions and group ability. Alongside recreational courses, the centre runs an established Divemaster and Instructor internship track under its own Divemaster Internship Academy brand, drawing career-changers from well beyond Tenerife.

Reviews name Csaba and Levi, and sometimes Levente, directly and repeatedly, praising patience, small-group attention, and the marine life inside the house-reef bay. One diver called the pair the best instructors encountered across many dive centres worldwide. A Divemaster-course graduate described a challenging, rewarding six-week programme. Another recalled a final night dive full of rays, eels, and angel sharks as an unforgettable send-off. Turtle sightings come up often enough to read as a routine highlight rather than a rare bonus. TripAdvisor holds the centre at 4.5 out of 5 across 17 reviews. The written reviews visible are uniformly positive, and instructor names recur across nearly every one, a small but consistent sample.