Shark Cage Diving Venue

5-Star Platinum NAUI Diver Training Centre

Scuba Diving Accommodation

Welcome to Buddy Scuba Diving Adventures

Discover a new world! Enjoy the freedom of gliding through the blue! Experience new adventures and explore undiscovered worlds. Make new friends! Diving is much easier than you might think! Be ready to enjoy a new challenge and dive into a new world! Diving means being transported to undersea caverns, swimming with schools of seemingly make believe fish; exploring places that only handfuls of human beings have laid eyes on… diving can take you all around the world to the earth’s most stunning locations, and expand your understanding of nature’s possibilities.
Scuba Diving Aliwal Shoal

Diving Aliwal Shoal

Join us for low seas and high spirits as we visit the famous Aliwal Shoal reef 5 km offshore. Rated as one of the top locations worldwide for viewing sharks in their natural environment.
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Scuba diving courses

NAUI Scuba Courses

Discover our earth submerged under the ocean. This is a life-changing experience, especially for nature-lovers. Upgrade your skillset with advanced courses at your convenience.
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Accommodation & Facilities

Rooms & Facilities

Our homely bed and breakfast also serves as our dive centre, making it easy to gear up and go diving. Take a walk through our virtual tour to get a feel for our venue and what it has to offer our guests.
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What We Do

Aliwal Shoal Scuba Diving

Meet The Sharks!

We are excited to announce our latest addition of our shark cage where you will be able to view black tip sharks, and sometimes rare sightings of great white and ellusive and amazing tiger sharks!

Shark Diving Options

Get Qualified

From beginners to tech diving courses, we are the only 5-star platinum NAUI dive centre in the south coast of Kwazulu- Natal offering world-standard courses.

Scuba Diving Courses

Diving Aliwal Shoal

At Buddy Scuba we specialize in Adventure, we offer a full range of recreational scuba diving courses as well as a variety of technical diving courses for individuals who wish to extend their knowledge beyond the limits of recreational scuba. 

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Buddy's Place

Our B&B “Buddy’s Place” situated in Widenham Umkomaas offers exclusive diving & accommodation packages, shark cage, rebreather, wreck & reef diving as well as transfers to and from King Shaka airport. Scuba Diving is our passion and we want to share our knowledge and experience with adventures people like you.

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Annual Sardine Run

Every day something new & unexpected adventure beckons! This is the bucket-list of all diving holidays. To find out more, let’s get chatting.

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Sardine Safari 2024

Get ReadyFor AdventureOn The Wild CoastOf Southern AfricaBook Your Adventure!

A new joint venture, enabling our dear local South African’s the opportunity to see the spectacular Sardine Run right on our very own shores!

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Customer Experiences

Kyle Miller
Kyle Miller
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Best diving company and people, made the experience from start to finish absolutely incredible! will definitely only dive with Deon and his crew! thank you guys for everything!
Chandre Tesnar
Chandre Tesnar
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Excellent service and relaxing atmosphere.
Ian Kriel
Ian Kriel
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Great place for families with kids. While dad goes diving the kids can relax in the pool while mom sips on her cocktail.
Caroline Crawford
Caroline Crawford
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Loved it! Great breakfast! Great hosts! Thank you! Will be back pretty soon!
Karmel Rautenbach
Karmel Rautenbach
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Thank you, Deon & Rina, for an amazing week at Buddy's place. We had a great time relaxing at your place, and diving. Deon and Rina always made sure that we are comfortable and sorted and went the extra mile.
Nuraan Ebrahim
Nuraan Ebrahim
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Had a good boat dive experience with Buddy Scuba Dive (besides some sea sickness). They accommodated us last minute and all the instructors were super helpful and friendly.
Mia Pretorius
Mia Pretorius
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Is there an option to give more then 5 stars ?
Lindy Spencer
Lindy Spencer
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What a find. Covid did us a great favour. Fantastic experience diving. So friendly and helpful. Felt so safe and spoiled
Quintin van Wyk
Quintin van Wyk
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Amazing atmosphere, run by the best!
Jennifer-lee Dippenaar
Jennifer-lee Dippenaar
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Went diving with Deon a few times now and as always I have been blown away by their professionalism and knowledge! I always judge a dive center by the state of their equipment and Deons stuff is all shiny and new.
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We are fortunate to be right on the doorstep of Aliwal Shoal, rated one of the top 10 dive sites of the world and renowned for its spectacular diving.

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