WeDive-Lagos
Marina de Lagos, Edifício astrolábio bloco 24 loja 4, 8600-780 Lagos, Portugal, Lagos, Lagos, PRT
Over het Centrum
WeDive-Lagos, located in the picturesque city of Lagos, Portugal, is a dive center dedicated to providing unforgettable underwater experiences. Certified by PADI, SSI, and TDI, the center offers a wide range of courses, from Discover Scuba Diving and Open Water Diver to professional levels like Divemaster and Instructor Development Course. They also offer specialties such as Enriched Air Nitrox, Technical Diving, and DAN first aid courses.
WeDive-Lagos' facilities include a well-equipped dive shop, equipment rental, nitrox air fills, and a boat diving service. The center organizes daily dives to various points of interest in the Algarve region, featuring vibrant marine life walls, archaeological artifacts, and interesting shipwrecks like the Ocean Revival vessel. Depths range from 8 to 35 meters, catering to all diver levels.
Professional divers and adventure enthusiasts will find at WeDive-Lagos a team passionate about sharing the beauty of the underwater world. They offer night diving programs, dry suit diving, and courses to enhance skills such as buoyancy and navigation. Furthermore, the center promotes environmental protection with marine ecology programs, making every dive an opportunity for learning and discovery.
Beschikbare Cursussen
5 cursosCurso Advanced Open Water
The Advanced Open Water course at WeDive Lagos builds directly on Open Water certification using the same sites where daily guided trips operate. The course structure involves adventure dives in specialty areas, and the WeDive site catalogue gives a lot of scope for making those dives meaningful rather than generic. The Deep Diving adventure sits naturally alongside the Ocean Revival wreck complex: Hermenegildo Capelo and Almeida Carvalho at 33 m and Oliveira e Carmo and Zambeze at 28 m are just past and at the recreational limit respectively, making the transition to those structures a direct next step from the AOWD deep dive. Navigation as an adventure dive is a practical skill on the Algarve coast, where the underwater topography is rockier and less uniform than flat, sandy environments. Several specialty areas available as AOWD adventure dives correspond directly to sites in the WeDive rotation. The Wreck Diving adventure fits with the Ocean Revival complex and the shallower Propeller's Paradise at 12 m. The Night and Limited Visibility adventure fits with the torch-dependent dives at Rocha Negra and Porto de Mos Wall. The Boat Diving adventure is effectively built into the operation, since most of WeDive's sites are reached by boat. Ian, the team's underwater photographer, makes the Photo and Video adventure dive a meaningful option — an actual practitioner on staff rather than a module delivered solely from a manual. The course is delivered through SSI or PADI, both active at the centre, and the agency can be matched to the Open Water certification you already hold. The instructors delivering the AOWD course include staff with dual SSI and PADI qualifications and skipper certificates, so the team you trained with on your Open Water is the same team running the AOWD adventure dives. Cortinas at 15 m, with its sloping overhang and dense marine life, and Pedras Altas at 18 m, with its canyon profile through large boulders, are both within AOWD depth range and within the regular dive programme. Completing the AOWD at WeDive puts you in range of all the major sites on the Algarve coast without further certification steps, and positions you for the full range of SSI and PADI specialty courses available at the centre. The 33 m wrecks at Ocean Revival — the main draw for most visiting divers — become the next natural target, accessible through the Deep Specialty or the Wreck Diving Specialty, both of which are offered at WeDive.
Curso Wreck Diver
The Wreck Diving specialty at WeDive Lagos takes place on the Ocean Revival complex — four decommissioned Portuguese Navy vessels sunk as an intentional dive destination off the Algarve coast. Hermenegildo Capelo and Almeida Carvalho are frigates at 33 m; Oliveira e Carmo is a corvette at 28 m and Zambeze is a patrol boat at the same depth. The specialty course covers wreck penetration principles, equipment configuration for overhead environments, and navigation within wreck structures — using actual large naval vessels rather than smaller, simpler recreational wrecks as the training site. Propeller's Paradise, an unidentified wreck at 12 m in the WeDive catalogue, provides an accessible shallower option for initial wreck familiarisation before moving to the deeper structures. The specialty is available through SSI or PADI, both of which are active in the WeDive instructor team. João Pedro Freire's TDI Instructor credentials mean there is technical diving knowledge available on staff for candidates who want to understand where recreational wreck diving ends and technical overhead diving begins — and what further training would cover. Several Ocean Revival vessels are large enough to offer guided penetration routes, giving the course a practical overhead environment component rather than limiting it to exterior circuits on smaller structures. The Ocean Revival complex has been described in the centre's own listing as a world-class European dive destination, and using it as the primary training site is a significant practical advantage. Divers completing the specialty at WeDive are immediately positioned to continue wreck diving on the Ocean Revival complex across all four vessels, each with a distinct profile and layout. The 28–33 m depth range of the main wrecks sits at and just beyond the recreational limit, making the specialty a natural bridge for divers considering technical training through TDI — available at the same centre. The daily boat operation to these sites, combined with instructors who hold skipper qualifications, means the specialty training integrates into the real dive programme from the first session. For divers who want to combine wreck diving with other skills, the Photo and Video specialty is also on offer at WeDive, and Ian, the team's underwater photographer, is available to support that angle. The Algarve wrecks offer shooting opportunities at multiple depth ranges — Propeller's Paradise at 12 m for ambient-light work, the deeper frigates for more technical photography setups.
Curso Open Water Diver
The Open Water course at WeDive Lagos certifies you to dive to 18 m in open water, and the training sites on the Algarve coast give that certification immediate practical context. Canavial, at 8 m over a mix of sand and rock, is the site listed by the centre for training dives and baptisms — protected enough to focus on skills without depth pressure, and close enough to the marina to keep logistics simple. As the course progresses, sites like Porto de Mos Wall at 18 m open up, where divers can see the moray eels, conger eels and crustaceans that live in the rocky wall. The certification is issued through SSI or PADI, both active at the centre, and the agency can be matched to your preference. The instructor roster at WeDive includes staff with dual SSI and PADI qualifications, meaning the training can be delivered through whichever system suits you. Several instructors also carry skipper certificates, so the person running your confined water sessions may be the same person at the helm on your open water dives. This is not unusual at a centre where the operation runs daily boat trips to multiple ocean sites rather than a sheltered harbour or pool. João Pedro Freire, a DAN Instructor Trainer on staff, means emergency first response knowledge is built into the team rather than being something separate. The Algarve is not a flat-water training environment. There is topography, occasional current, and conditions that vary by site and season. Starting your Open Water certification here with a team that runs nine or more named dive sites daily means the open water dives are not defaulting to the same calm spot every session — the instructors choose the site to match conditions and the group's level. For divers who want to continue after certification, the wreck complex at Ocean Revival sits just beyond the 18 m recreational limit, accessible with further training at the same centre without changing teams. Completing an Open Water at WeDive also positions you at the base of a long training ladder that stays within the same facility. The Advanced Open Water, the full range of SSI and PADI specialty courses, and eventually the Divemaster and instructor tracks are all available. The Algarve sites — the cave at Grutas Ponta da Piedade, the archaeological dive at Âncoras, the canyon at Pedras Altas — are all on the regular rotation and progressively accessible as skills and certification levels increase.
Curso Nitrox
WeDive Lagos offers both Nitrox 32 and Nitrox 40 as knowledge-only programmes — courses with no in-water training component that cover the theory of enriched air diving, oxygen limits, and dive planning with nitrox mixes. In the context of the Ocean Revival wreck complex, where dives at 28–33 m push the limits of bottom time on air, nitrox certification has a direct practical payoff. Running the Nitrox 40 programme at a centre that dives these depths daily means the use cases covered in the theory are immediately applicable on the next boat trip. The course is delivered through SSI or PADI, depending on the candidate's existing certification track. João Pedro Freire's TDI Instructor Trainer credentials on the team mean the extended range context beyond recreational nitrox limits is understood within the staff, which can inform the discussion of where nitrox fits in a broader training progression. The knowledge-only format means the programme can be completed without additional confined water or open water sessions, making it an efficient add-on for visiting divers who want to complete it alongside a diving trip to the Algarve. For divers using nitrox on the Porto de Mos Wall at 18 m or the multilevel Rocha Negra at 16 m, the increased bottom times at shallower depths are the primary benefit. The deeper wreck dives at 33 m on air or nitrox still require careful planning within the no-decompression limits, and the Nitrox programmes cover the planning tools needed for that. The full TDI technical and extended range programmes available at WeDive sit further along that progression for divers who want to move into decompression diving on the Ocean Revival structures.
Curso Divemaster
The WeDive Divemaster programme takes place in Lagos using the full catalogue of Algarve dive sites that the centre operates on a daily basis. Ocean Revival's four wrecks, the cave at Grutas Ponta da Piedade, the archaeological site at Âncoras, and the canyon at Pedras Altas are all working sites that Divemaster trainees assist with during real daily operations rather than dedicated training-only sessions. Nuno Oliveira, the SSI Instructor Trainer on staff, provides the highest level of mentoring available within the SSI system. The professional track at WeDive runs from Divemaster through Assistant Instructor to a full ITC, so completing the DM at this centre creates a direct in-house path to instructor qualification. Several of the current Divemasters and Divemasters-in-training on the WeDive team also hold skipper qualifications — Tomás Salgado and Roy Woodruff both combine Divemaster status with a skipper licence. That combination is practical in a centre where the dive operation runs on boats to open ocean sites with genuine sea conditions rather than sheltered harbour water. The operation's scale — nine or more named sites, daily departures, multiple boat runs — gives Divemaster candidates real exposure to group management, site selection, briefings, and in-water leadership across varied conditions and diver levels. Working as a Divemaster in training in Lagos means logging hours on a coast that includes cave dives, multilevel walls, archaeological sites, canyon formations, and a four-wreck complex. Canavial at 8 m is the centre's primary training site for baptisms and Open Water confined sessions, meaning DM candidates also observe and assist with the introductory end of the operation, not just the experienced diver trips to the deeper sites. João Pedro Freire's TDI Instructor credentials mean exposure to technical diving standards is present within the team environment, even for DM candidates staying in the recreational track. The SSI and PADI instructor credentials distributed across the WeDive team give Divemaster candidates a view of how both systems operate within a working dive operation. For candidates who later want to move into the instructor track through SSI, Nuno Oliveira's Instructor Trainer status means the pathway from DM candidate to ITC participant stays entirely within the same centre and team.
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Ocean Revival consists of four decommissioned Portuguese Navy vessels. The frigates Hermenegildo Capelo and Almeida Carvalho sit at 33 m, while the corvette Oliveira e Carmo and the patrol boat Zambeze lie at 28 m. All four are accessible on daily boat trips from the marina.
The centre trains and certifies through SSI, PADI, and TDI. The instructor team holds qualifications across all three, so your choice of agency can be matched to your existing certification history or preference.
Yes, for several sites. Grutas Ponta da Piedade is a cave dive with tunnel passages where a torch is listed as required. Rocha Negra and Porto de Mos Wall both have crevices where the guides recommend a light to see the marine life inside.
Canavial is the main site used for training dives and baptisms, with a maximum depth of 8 m over a mix of sand and rock. It is the shallowest site in the WeDive catalogue and serves as the primary location for first-time dives.
Yes. The professional track at WeDive runs from Divemaster through Assistant Instructor to a full Instructor Training Course. Nuno Oliveira, an SSI Instructor Trainer, is on staff, which is the qualification required to run ITC programmes within the SSI system.
TDI technical diving, extended range, and rebreather programmes are all listed at WeDive. João Pedro Freire is the team's TDI Instructor and also holds DAN Instructor Trainer credentials, so technical courses and emergency first aid training are both available in-house.
Snorkelling excursions to Ponta da Piedade run as standalone sessions and as combined boat-and-snorkel trips. Marine ecology programmes are also listed alongside the diving curriculum.
WeDive Lagos is based at Marina de Lagos, Edifício Astrolábio, Bloco 24, Loja 4, 8600-780 Lagos. You can reach the team by phone or WhatsApp at +351 916 959 233 or by email at [email protected].
Marina de Lagos, Edifício astrolábio bloco 24 loja 4, 8600-780 Lagos, Portugal, Lagos, Lagos, PRT