Top Scuba Dive Shops in Terengganu

Explore the beautiful underwater world of the Perhentian Islands with Cosmic Divers, a small cozy dive centre situated on a semi-private beach against a backdrop of lush jungles, offering stunning views of the crystal blue sea and a laid-back beach vibe.

We run daily recreational diving trips and offer a wide range of PADI scuba diving courses from beginner to professional level. We are one of the few dive centres on the Perhentian Islands that provide Nitrox fills.

Our friendly dive team is committed to giving all of our divers a memorable experience by providing personalized, premium customer service while making safety our priority. We keep our instructor to student ratio low and all dives are guided by experienced PADI professionals.

The calm seas during the dry season from March to October offer pleasant diving conditons, making the Perhentian Islands an ideal destination for dive training and for divers who want to enjoy some nice, relaxing dives.

Join us on your next holiday for a cosmic experience!

We provide PADI dive courses ranging from beginner level up to professional level as well as specialty courses such as deep diver, night diver, enriched air (nitrox) diver, wreck diver and many more. We also offer snorkeling, dive trips and can even sort you up with accommodation with a wide range of resorts throughout Malaysia. Our aim is to bring you the very best in scuba diving and friendly advice. Our website also contains extensive information on all various scuba diving training.

We are a small team of fun loving, experienced PADI dive professionals fluent in English, Italian, French, Malay and Mandarin. Call in any time for a chat and a coffee. You can find us at Perhentian Island Resort on Pulau Perhentian Besar, or drop us a email anytime.

Set on a beautiful white sandy beach within the Perhentian Island Resort, we are the longest running dive shop on the islands. Recently rebuilt it is now also one of the most modern.

With our wealth of experience, new and regularly serviced equipment, professional staff fluent in English, Malay, Mandarin, French and Italian, high speed canopied speed boats, air conditioned classroom and an endless supply of tea and coffee you can sit back and enjoy the friendly fun-loving atmosphere while being assured that safety and logistics are all taken care of.

The Perhentian Island National Marine Park offers fantastic diving for both novice and expert divers alike. With more than 15 regularly used dive sites within 15 to 20 minutes drive in our speed boat, you will never be short of exciting dives during your visit.

An extensive range of PADI courses are available starting daily. Even children as young as 8 years old can join in the fun.

Chomel Dive Center(CDC) is located at Perhentian Kecil, Malaysia with private beach. Next to CDC is Perhentian Chomel Resort with sea view rooms. 

Universal diver is a stones throw away from the prestigious Tuna Bay Resort. We offer a wide range of diving services to cater for all your diving needs, so whether you are looking for daily swim fins or to take PADI courses, our team of friendly and knowledgeable staff will be more than happy to assist you. Awarded as an internationally renowned PADI 5 Star Gold Palm resort since 2007, Universal Diver caters to everyone from budding dive enthusiasts to seasoned underwater adventurers. Whats more, each dive trip can be fully customized, ensuring that you will receive a one of a kind experience each and every time.

Not only do we offer diving at Perhentian Island, we also organize day trips to the beautiful islands of Lang Tengah and Redang. With such diversity, you can rest assured you are in for a truly remarkable diving experience.

We are fully equipped with 3 customized dive boats, 40 sets of high quality MARES diving equipment, and a fully air-conditioned class room with a view of the ocean that will take your breath away. Our comprehensive onsite facility is able to handle a total of 30 divers at any one time. Our team of experienced international and local dive masters are fully qualified, coupled with their extensive knowledge of the island ensures that you are in safe hands at all times.

In the three short years that we have been in operation we have certified more than 900 divers (and counting) and are at the forefront of making scuba diving one of the most popular attractions on Perhentian Island.

Here at Universal Diver, diving is more than just a job for us; it is a passion and a way of life.

We are located in the heart of a little paradise known as the Perhentian Islands. The Perhentian Islands lie approximately 10 nautical miles off the northeastern coast of West Malaysia in the state of Terengganu. In less than 20 minutes by boat, you can be at some of the best dive sites the Perhentian Islands has to offer. 

Our small dive centre founded by locals from the Perhentian Islands itself. We run PADI certification scuba diving courses from beginners to professional dive master level, marine education and conservation activities, accompanied scuba dives and scuba diving packages for groups as well as individual diver throughout the season. We also cater small groups and offer scuba divers a cozy family atmosphere you’ll never forget!

For those who are interested, things here are: in the wise words of Aristotle, ""Same, same but the still same"". The dive season here has begun and the diving is rocking. We still go diving everyday and start PADI diving courses nearly everyday. Our prices are much the same too. Many an unbiased diver has noted that Perhentian offers the best value diving in South East Asia. We even offer a guarantee. The diving is as good as ever. We still have lots of turtles, stingrays, bumphead parrotfishs as well as the usual colourful reef fish on our scuba diving trips . We organise regular diving trips to Redang Island. Those trips are always fun.

We now have 2 more wrecks to dive at Perhentian. Both are bigger ships (40m long or more). The first is the Sugar Wreck, an easy dive on a 3500 tonne ship. The second is The Secret Wreck, a more tricky dive on an old freighter down at 38m. Suitable for more experienced divers and for those qualified to dive with Enriched Air (NITROX). For those who want to learn we offer the PADI Enriched Air Diver course which qualifies divers to dive with gas blends up to 40% oxygen.

Our authorized PADI dive centre is equipped with the latest equipment and all our boats carry emergency equipment - oxygen units, first aid kits, life jackets etc. Situated close to Redang Island Marina and in Laguna Redang Island Resort our dive centre offers the very best of scuba diving services for all your needs. We also offer Enriched Air Nitrox, which allows you shorter decompression time, which means that you can now dive longer and get back to the water sooner.

Whether you are a first-timer or an experienced pro, we offer something for everyone. Our experienced PADI instructors offer a full range of PADI programs from the PADI Open Water Diver Course up to PADI Professional level courses such as PADI Divemaster.

For those who are interested in scuba diving but aren’t quite ready to take the certification course, you may try our Discover Scuba Diving. You’ll learn how to use scuba equipment in shallow water and get a quick and easy introduction to what it takes to explore the underwater world.

Our strategic location gives advantage for us to organize diving trip to the most beautiful and fascinating dive sites in Perhentian Island. We have daily excursions to various dive sites: Discover dive, Coral reef dive, Wreck dive, Rock dive, Fish watching dive, Night dive and so much more. Moreover, our boat schedule allows single diver and small group for longer dive time.

Don’t worry if you are not a diver as we organize snorkelling trip as well. There are many snorkelling sites: Shark point, Fish garden, Turtle point, Nemo garden, etc. that allows you to enjoy the underwater marine life from afar.

With an open heart, we welcome freelance instructors for courses conduct, with arranged accommodation, discounted equipment rental, underwater digital camera rental and boat services.

We believe Smile, Friendliness, Patience and Safety-conscious bring people close to us.

Panorama Diver, located at Pulau Perhentian Kecil - Long Beach is a family run business that caters to backpackers, travellers and holidaymakers who are looking for Fun Dives or Scuba Diving Courses together with clean, basic, affordable and low-budget rooms or dorms.

Pulau Perhentian is located in the South China Sea 21 km from the coast of Kuala Besut, Terengganu. We have more than 20 dive spots that are suitable for all levels of experience.

New divers can have a nice relaxing reef dive while be amazed by the brilliantly colored tropical fish and coral. Experienced divers can enjoy the freedom of spectacular reef diving, adventurous wreck diving and deep dives in an extremely idyllic and laid back setting.

We are are the only dive center in the island that offers coral propagation courses.

We organize daily dive trips around Pulau Perhentian in small group (4 divers to a qualified DM/Instructor). Our dive professionals specialized in guiding photographers, with keen eyes for macro object, make an ordinary dive trip special. Bubbles Dive Centre place educating its divers as the top priority, and started its first conservation project PIBAR, an Intensive Care Unit for stress coral reef to provide divers a special chance to learn more about marine eco system. Bubbles also is one of the participating Reef Check dive centre. At Bubbles' house reef, one can find a vast variety of marine organism, and thus Bubbles is also an ideal place for tropical reef studies.

Founded in 2005 by Kin and Aikn Voon, Quiver Dive Team has grown from a small beach front dive shop into one of Malaysia’s top dive schools, winning year after year several notable awards which help reaffirm its dedication to professional, safe and fun scuba diving.

We have two dive centres on Perhentian Kecil, one at Coral Bay and the other on Long Beach, where we certify over 1000 divers every year in our extensive range of PADI courses. In 2009, Quiver became a 5 Star IDC Center, the only one to this date on Perhentian Kecil.

Redang Pelangi Resort has a fully equipped PADI Dive Resort which conducts the full range of PADI Courses starting with the PADI Discover Scuba Diving program, Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Rescue, and the PADI Divemaster course with lots of PADI Specialties in between. Our fully dedicated PADI Professional team teaches to the highest standards and always ensures safety as our top priority. We have air-conditioned classrooms equipped with AV equipment, a spacious equipment storage room, and a deck for divers to relax after dives.

Redang Island is synonymous with its white powdery beaches, crystal clear waters and a sea filled with tropical fish that inhabits beautiful coral reefs. Once you step on Redang Island you would realize why this undiscovered paradise is visited by thousands of guests each year.

For most of our guests, snorkelling is their main activity while on the island, but for divers, it is a totally different world. Redang Island has over 20+ interesting and amazing dive sites, with two ship wrecks and a plane wreck at the nearby Lang Tengah Island. 

Managed by V Diversify Group Sdn. Bhd (Website: www.vdgffaa.com), VGO Dive Centre (PADI S-27713) is a PADI registered dive centre that provides full range of dive related services from PADI courses, organizing fun diving trips and dive equipment’s sales and services. Currently, VGO Dive Centre having 2 outlets providing full range of scuba diving related services both in Kepong, Kuala Lumpur and Marang, Terengganu, Malaysia.

Accommodation and scuba diving in Perhentian Island. Seahorse Diver is a dive center in Perhentian Island, and this is our website. Located on the beautiful Long Beach, we invite you to experience a safe, fun, professional and exciting underwater adventure.

Seahorse Diver provides accommodation, PADI scuba diving courses and fun dive trips in the best dive sites around Perhentian Islands.

The islands lay some 20km off Kuala Besut on the Peninsula Malaysias northeastern coast. They form the northernmost part of Terengganu Marine Park, which also comprises a number of other islands; Pulau Lang Tengah, Pulau Redang, Pulau Bidong and Pulau Tenggol. Perhentian Island is surrounded by warm, crystal clear water filled with a great variety of brilliantly coloured tropical fish and coral reefs offering excellent diving and snorkeling in an extremely idyllic and laid back setting.