RECREATIONAL DIVING COURSES

We had such a great experience with Melanie for our PADI Advanced Open Water certification. She’s passionate about diving and her teaching approach is very professional. We did the training before going on a liveaboard and it was perfect. Thanks for everything!

Mel is the most patient and caring instructor.she took my grandchildren with tank on their backs for the first time.They had never had used tanks on backs before. They fell in love with diving and want to learn when they get older.Thanks Mel for showing my grandchildren a new experience of there life.. your amazing

Mel was hands down the best SCUBA dive trainer I’ve had! And I’ve had many. I completed Adv OW and Rescue Diver with Octopus Dive last year. The experience was second to none. Mel and her partner Fred are dedicated to their student’s learning and give clear and logical instruction. Mel also taught my CPR course, and did a great job of that too. Highly recommended.

Mel was hands down the best SCUBA dive trainer I’ve had! And I’ve had many. I completed Adv OW and Rescue Diver with Octopus Dive last year. The experience was second to none. Mel and her partner Fred are dedicated to their student’s learning and give clear and logical instruction. Mel also taught my CPR course, and did a great job of that too. Highly recommended.

Melanie was an amazing instructor and really helped throughout all dives and a great person just to chat with. Would 100% do it again qnd again.

Mel is such a patient and thoughtful teacher, training with her was such an honour and truly enjoyable process. Highly recommend Octopus Dive!!!

I flew from new Zealand to cairns to get tickets for my new line of work and was absolutely wrapped with how efficient and skilled mel was at getting me through. She got me through advanced open water and my rescue divers courses as well as first aid and advanced resuscitation. If your thinking of getting tickets i Highly recommend octupus dive. EXCELLENT!!!!

I arrived in Far North Queensland with a relatively narrow window for scuba diving and Mel made it work perfectly. She is very flexible and we did a refresher course in her pool (although she is happy to come to your pool if it suits, or take you to a lake). We then went for a lovely day of diving on the Great Barrier Reef. Mel sorted all the logistics and everything for me. She’s a wonderful teacher and great company. If I ever come back to Queensland I’d love to dive with her again.

I recently completed a rescue course with Mel. Mel made the training interactive and fun. I would highly recommend her for any dive training around Cairns. Thanks Mel!

Very friendly and welcoming. I had a great time on my first freshwater dive. It feels like a professional operation, which is something you can miss with bigger places which are often run day to day by young divemasters trying to clock up hours. I would recommend Octupus Dive if you are keen to try something different or complete your next PADI course.

I did my diving course will Melanie from octopus dive for my job and I can say I was really impressed, she is a wonderful person with a bubbly attitude and her training was amazing, she just wants you to succeed and will help you in anyway she can, I would highly recommend anyone looking to do their diving courses in Cairns to go and have a chat with Melanie from octopus dive she's a legend

Had a great time learning to Dive with Mel through to rescue diver. I would highly recommend 5 out of 5.

So happy we found Melanie at Octopus Dive!!! Completely professional experience getting my kids (ages 12&14) Open Water certified. We traveled to Cairns from The Netherlands for their in-person training, but she was a great communicator long before that, as we made our plans and the boys took the online portion of the course. She even held a zoom session with them to review what they had learned so far and to ensure all our expectations were in-sync. Once we met her in-person, she really began to exceed expectations! As a teacher she is equal parts serious and fun and developed such a great rapport with the kids. She was patient and kind, firm and fair. Melanie even acted as a bit of a tour guide, pointing out sights along routes to and from dive sites and even took us for a hike to see a platypus in the wild. She is just so genuinely kind and fun! We are already planning a trip back next year to further the kids’ (and parents’) training with Octopus Dive. It was that good!

I would highly recommend Mel and her team for every diving course you might want to do.

I completed my Advanced Open Water course with Mel. I found her to be extremely organised, professional and very helpful. She made the course a lot of fun!