Scooter / DPV Diving

The Scooter/DPV Diving specialty at Scubazores takes two days and mirrors the Sea Scooter activity the centre already runs commercially, where participants use underwater propulsion vehicles during guided dives. Doing the specialty course gives divers the skills to handle a DPV independently rather than as a supervised activity.

Scubazores explicitly markets Sea Scooter Dive as a differentiating activity on Ilha Terceira, and running both the recreational version and the SSI specialty means instructors are clearly experienced with DPV operations in local conditions. The waters around Angra do Heroísmo and the north coast sites offer varied terrain — walls, sandy channels, cavern entrances — that make DPV diving genuinely useful rather than a novelty.

The course is conducted in Portuguese and English, in line with all Scubazores SSI programmes.