la tribu bulles
2378 Rte de la Madrague, 83400 Hyères, France, Hyères, Var, FRA
About the Center
La Tribu Bulles is a dive center located in Giens, Hyères, France. It is affiliated with recognized certifiers such as SSI and CMAS/FFESSM, ensuring high-quality training programs. The center offers a wide range of courses, from Discover Scuba Diving and Open Water Diver to more advanced levels like Enriched Air Nitrox and Instructor Development Course. They also provide courses in Freediving and Technical Diving, as well as Snorkeling courses and Boat Diving specialties.
La Tribu Bulles' facilities include a bar for relaxing after dives, equipment rental, and a dive shop. They offer air fills (including nitrox) and organize boat diving trips and night dives. Its location in Giens makes it an ideal spot to explore the underwater environment of the region.
La Tribu Bulles is distinguished by its passion for the marine environment, biology, and underwater photography. Clients can rely on their professional instructor, known as BUBU, for safe and personalized dives. The center aims to adapt to the needs and level of each diver, offering a happy and memorable underwater experience. Inquiries are welcomed for exploration dives, technical dives, nitrox dives, personalized dives, introductory dives, and night dives.
The center also emphasizes teaching marine environmental protection. They have an equipped boat and safety equipment, including oxygen therapy. La Tribu Bulles offers the possibility of gifting unforgettable experiences, making it an excellent choice for those looking to learn or improve their diving skills in a welcoming and professional setting.
Available Courses
5 cursosEnriched Air Nitrox Course
Enriched Air Nitrox Course in Hyères. Taught by certified instructors at la tribu bulles.
Essais plongée
From 8 to 88 years old, starting from the boat or from the beach.
Exploration Dive
Always in small groups, to savor the moment in a more "friendly" way.
Formation Niveau 1
The Niveau 1 course at La Tribu Bulles follows the FFESSM framework — the French federation pathway that Georges BUREL (BEES 1, CMAS **) has been teaching for 35 years. The school mentions running this course in a family format, which fits with the overall ethos: small groups, personalised pace, not rushed. Sessions can be run in a private pool setting for confined water work before progressing to open water. The Presqu'île de Giens and the surrounding Hyères island coastline provide the open water environment — a stretch of Mediterranean that sees reasonable visibility and varied seabed depending on the site chosen. The school's cap of five participants per group applies here as it does everywhere. Bubu is consistently described as adapting to each diver's style and level rather than pushing a fixed script, which tends to matter more in certification courses than in one-off dives. A medical certificate is required. The course produces a FFESSM Niveau 1 certification, the standard French entry-level qualification for buddy diving under supervision to 20 metres.
Apnée
Freediving is part of the La Tribu Bulles programme alongside the scuba side. The school lists apnée as a distinct activity, offered in the same convivial, small-group format that characterises everything here — maximum five participants, departing from La Madrague. The Hyères coastline around Giens is well suited to freediving: relatively sheltered water inside the island corridor, varied rocky reef structure, and the kind of local marine life — gorgonians, Mediterranean reef fish — that makes a breath-hold dive visually worthwhile without needing depth to find something interesting. Bubu's background is primarily scuba, but the school positions the apnée offer as accessible to participants at various levels. No specific depth targets or certification tracks are detailed on the site, suggesting a more discovery-oriented approach than structured competition freediving. For someone who wants to try breath-hold diving in open Mediterranean water without committing to a full freediving agency course, this fits the bill. The Journée Port-Cros format — which includes snorkelling along the national park underwater trail — gives some sense of the surface water environment in which apnée sessions at Giens typically take place.
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8 years old. A medical certificate is required for everyone, and minors need a signed parental authorisation before getting in the water.
Maximum 5 people per outing. Every day trip — whether the Journée Extra to Porquerolles or the Port-Cros run — is capped at five participants.
Yes. Bubu holds a Nitrox instructor certification (n°3801) and runs both Nitrox and Nitrox Confirmé training. Useful if you're planning a liveaboard or trip abroad and want more bottom time.
Yes — the personalised format offers a one-on-one with Bubu and the boat exclusively for you. Sessions can also be arranged at a private pool or aboard your own boat if you have one.
La Tribu Bulles is affiliated with the FFESSM (Fédération française d'études et de sports sous-marins). Georges BUREL is BEES 1, CMAS double-star (n°6920013). Courses and certifications follow the FFESSM framework.
June through September, weather permitting. The programme notes that all sea outings depend on meteorological conditions — the Var coast can get wind, so flexibility helps.
The Ponton de Bounaou at La Madrague, Giens. Access is via the route de la Madrague (n°2378) on the Presqu'île de Giens.
Yes — full scuba kit as well as fins, masks and snorkels for snorkelling. The boat carries safety equipment and oxygen therapy gear.