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Dive Information

Scuba diving in the Dominican Republic can offer divers various exciting marine life encounters, deep wrecks, cavernous spaces and caves, stunning coral reefs, and even mangrove forests. Most of the dive sites are suitable for all levels of divers. The south coast with only mild currents is also a great place to try out scuba diving for the first time. Advanced divers can explore the deep wrecks and walls. The water temperatures stay warm throughout the year. The diving conditions depend on the seasons but always making one of the coasts diveable. Additionally, the country is not just a great dive destination but offers plenty of opportunities for snorkelers too.

Marine life & environment

The Dominican Republic offers a great variety of marine life. You will find different species of pelagic such as eagle rays, barracuda, nurse sharks, jacks, dolphins, and turtles. Numerous reef fish can be found swimming around the healthy reefs. The tropical waters are home to trumpet fish, butterflyfish, porcupine fish, parrotfish, clownfish, lionfish, angelfish, and many more. Around the coral reef, you can also see many sponges and sea urchins. If you are lucky, you can even spot some manatees.

Dive Center Information

Dressel Divers is the company chosen by the prestigious Iberostar Hotel chain for the last twenty years to run diving activities on the premise of its luxury hotels in the Caribbean, to ensure that this service has the same quality as the hotels. Dressel Divers have a dive center located directly on the beach of the Iberostar Costa Dorada.

Dive Center Features 

Dressel Divers has rental equipment that feels like it's every diver's own! The dive equipment is of premium quality, regularly maintained and replaced with new and innovative products over time. A wide variety of gear is offered so that persons of all statures and ages will find something that suits them.

The dive centers include state-of-the-art equipment rooms staffed by employees who wash, disinfect and store client's rental equipment. They also include a place to store personal dive equipment. Our cylinders, filling stations, and compressors are operated and maintained by well-trained qualified staff in strict compliance with the generally accepted industry standards and all instructions specific to the brands used.

The boats are exclusively designed and built for Dressel Diversunder the strict supervision of Javier Ibran, a lifelong diver and the company's founding President. Dive boats are tailored to provide ample space for equipment and clients, as well as an easy entry and exit into the water for divers.

Cylinders are provided on-board the boats, the majority of which are catamarans or trimarans (to limit movement due to waves and therefore seasickness).

Boats, furthermore, are equipped with a sunroof, fresh drinking water, a radio, a GPS device, oxygen, spare diving equipment, and everything else deemed mandatory by the United States Coast Guard. The engines, all top brands, are subject to ongoing monitoring and servicing by in-house mechanics. Boat captains, moreover, all have First Aid medical training. Last but not least, with very few exceptions all boats have double engines.

Almost all the staff obtained their professional diving qualifications with our own PADI Career Development Center.They are therefore trained within our own philosophy and in harmony with the objectives of Dressel Divers. They will give you not only a great dive but also a very safe one!