Wagic Dive Center

Wagic Dive Center works out of the Club Esportiu Marina in Palamós, on the southern Costa Brava. It is a small, owner-led school built around one idea: teaching scuba and freediving side by side. Guillem Sánchez Folch founded it after years of diving the Mediterranean, going on to dive iconic sites worldwide and turning professional at the Blue Hole in Dahab before opening the school back home.

The teaching style is personal. Instruction runs at a maximum of one instructor to four students, and introductory sessions can be one to one. Scheduling is flexible and arranged with each diver rather than fixed to daily boat departures. The SSI program covers the full path, from a first discover-scuba session or freediving baptism through Open Water, Advanced Adventurer, Stress & Rescue, and Dive Master, plus specialties in deep, night, wreck, navigation, and Nitrox. The freediving side starts with apnea fundamentals: breathing, relaxation, and equalization.

Guillem runs the school alongside his older brother Nico, a dive guide with deep roots in Costa Brava diving. Beyond local courses, Wagic organizes an annual program of international expeditions led by the founder, from a Cap de Creus weekend close to home to humpback whales in Mozambique and tiger sharks in the Maldives.

Wagic carries an unusually strong signal for a school its size: a perfect 5.0 rating across more than a hundred Google reviews. The recurring theme is the founder's teaching. Divers describe Guillem as patient, attentive, and genuinely tuned in to each student, and that praise comes from both scuba beginners and freediving newcomers.

First-timers tend to highlight how calm and safe they felt in the water. People who came to try freediving talk about it as much more than a sport lesson. The common thread is personal, unhurried instruction, which fits a school that keeps its groups small by design.