Small-group diving from Simon's Town, Cape Town
Dive Cape Town your way
Private, small-batch scuba, spearfishing and ocean adventures around Cape Point and False Bay. Built around your crew, filmed for free and led by PADI Instructor Ethan Hoffman.
Not your average dive day
- Small batches: just your family or friends
- Every experience personalised to you
- Your dive filmed, footage free
- Fanatical about safety
- Boat pickup at Simon's Town Yacht Club
Photo: Friends kitting up on the boat
Not a dive shop. Your dive crew.
Packed boats, fixed schedules and strangers on every bench? Not here. Ethan and his crew run small-batch ocean experiences for families and friends who want the real thing: sunlight through the kelp, a curious seal at your mask, fresh fish on the coals at Buffels Bay.
Every trip is shaped around your group, your experience level and what the ocean is doing that day. And because these moments deserve to be relived, we film your underwater experience and share the footage at no extra cost.
Ocean adventures around Cape Point
Four ways to get in the water. Every one runs in small groups, leaves from Simon’s Town and is tailored to you.
Signature day
Cape Point Dive Experience
Dive, snorkel or spearfish off Cape Point, then braai your fresh catch on the beach at Buffels Bay.
Certified divers
Boat dive adventures
A full day exploring False Bay’s reefs, wrecks and kelp forests with your crew.
Seasonal
Spearfishing: yellowtail and tuna
Hunt the blue around Cape Point when the fish are running. For experienced spearos.
Spearfishing, autumn and winter
Smitswinkel Bay spearfishing
When the yellowtail aren’t running, our boat takes you to Smitswinkel Bay spots that are almost impossible to reach from the shore.
Made for people who collect experiences, not things
Real adventure, real connection and a story you will tell for years. Here is what makes a day with Ethan different.
Small batch, never crowded
Just you and your people. No strangers, no cattle-boat queues, no rush.
Personalised to your group
First dive or fiftieth, we design the day around your experience, your goals and the conditions.
Your dive, filmed for free
Relive it, share it, frame it. Your underwater experience is captured on video at no additional cost.
Safety first, every time
Ethan is fanatical about safety, from thorough briefings to changing the plan when the ocean says so.
Respect for the ocean
Sustainable spearfishing and leave-no-trace diving, so these waters stay wild for the next generation.
Learn to dive with your friends
PADI certification in small, personal groups, trained in the kelp forests of False Bay. Your training dives are filmed too.
PADI Open Water Diver
Your licence to explore the underwater world, in four days.
- 4-day course
- R9,250 per person
- R8,500 per person in a group of 4, boat dive included
PADI Advanced Open Water
Level up your skills and confidence in three days.
- 3-day course
- R8,500 per person
- For certified Open Water divers
Good to know
Quick answers before you get wet.
Our boat trips leave from Simon’s Town Yacht Club in Simon’s Town, on the False Bay coast of Cape Town. We confirm meeting times the day before.
Small. We run small-batch, personalised experiences for families and friends, never big-boat group dives.
Yes. We film your underwater experience and share the footage with you at no additional cost.
You need a scuba certification for boat dives, and our spearfishing trips are for experienced spearos. Not certified yet? Join our PADI Open Water course with your friends, or snorkel on the Cape Point Dive Experience.
Dive sites depend on weather and visibility. If conditions are not safe we move to a better site or reschedule with you.
Absolutely. Contact us with your dates, your group and your dream day, and we will tailor an adventure around you.
Your ocean story starts here
Tell us who’s coming and what you’re dreaming of. We’ll build the day around you.