Scublue Dive Center
Hendrik van Ravestijnplein 76, Rijswijk, South Holland, NLD
Over het Centrum
Scublue Dive Center, located in Rijswijk, NLD, is a diving school and dive shop dedicated to introducing clients to the underwater world. Certified by SSI and TDI, it offers a comprehensive array of courses, ranging from Discover Scuba Diving and Open Water Diver to professional levels, alongside Snorkeling and Moniteur Fédéral courses. The center's facilities include lockers, a bar, a swimming pool for training, equipment rental, a well-stocked dive shop, and air fill services (including nitrox). They also organize night dives and specialty courses such as dry suit diving and underwater photography.
With a strong focus on learning and enjoyment, Scublue Dive Center excels in enhancing the skills of experienced divers and providing a recreational diving experience for all ages. Their offerings include "Try Scuba" sessions, "Basic Diver" and "Referral Diver" courses, as well as refresher and specialization courses. The dive shop provides quality equipment for diving and snorkeling, with expert advice available.
The center distinguishes itself through its location in Rijswijk, near The Hague, and its commitment to fostering a welcoming atmosphere for divers of all levels. It boasts a multilingual team fluent in Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, and Catalan, ensuring clients from diverse backgrounds feel comfortable. Their high service rating of 4.9 underscores the quality of their classes and services, earning them the "Hoogst Beoordeelde Service 2026" certification.
Beschikbare Cursussen
10 cursosSnorkeling
The SSI Snorkel course at Scublue runs weekly at Zwembad Het Wedde in Voorschoten — Wednesday evenings from 19:30 to 21:30 and Sunday afternoons from 14:00 to 16:00. Sessions run in groups of up to six participants per instructor, which keeps the pace manageable and means the instructor can spend time with each person individually. There is no minimum age, which makes this one of the most accessible things Scublue offers. The pool setting at Het Wedde is a controlled environment where you can focus on technique without current or cold water complicating things. The programme starts with a short theory introduction before entering the water. You will learn the correct breathing rhythm for snorkelling, how to clear your snorkel after a surface dive, how to execute a proper duck dive, and how to move efficiently with fins. All of that is covered within the two-hour session. Beforehand you can optionally read through the digital materials in the SSI app at your own pace, so the in-water time is used efficiently. All snorkelling equipment is included — mask, snorkel, fins — along with pool entry and a digital certificate issued via the SSI app. You just need to bring swimwear and a towel. The course is available in Dutch, English, German, and Polish, so language is rarely a barrier for participants. For many people at Scublue this is the first step toward a Try Scuba or Open Water Diver course. The centre credits the intro price toward follow-on SSI courses, which makes the snorkel course a low-risk entry point for anyone unsure whether they want to go further.
Open Water Diver
The SSI Open Water Diver course at Scublue is the full recreational certification, valid for life and recognised everywhere. It consists of three modules — theory, pool, and open water — and you can start all three in parallel, working through theory at your own pace in the SSI app while attending weekly pool sessions at Zwembad Het Wedde in Voorschoten. The five pool sessions run on Wednesday evenings from 19:30 or Sunday afternoons from 14:00. If you prefer guided theory lessons with an instructor, Scublue includes four hours of classroom instruction at no extra charge. The open-water phase consists of four dives at Zandeiland 4 in Vinkeveen, scheduled on Saturdays with flexible timing. Zandeiland 4 is one of the best-known freshwater dive sites in the Netherlands — clear water, large pike and perch, crayfish, and a variety of sunken objects and wrecks on the bottom. By the time you reach the outdoor dives, the five pool sessions have covered all the practical skills you need to apply there. The multiple-choice theory exam is taken in the Scublue shop in Rijswijk. All course equipment is provided for every session, including wetsuit, BCD, regulator, fins, mask, and weights. Pool entry is also included. The course is available in Dutch, English, German, and Polish, and groups run with a maximum of four students per instructor. The junior brevet is available from age ten; the standard Open Water Diver from age fifteen. On completion you are certified to dive with a buddy or guide to a maximum of 18 metres anywhere in the world. The SSI referral option is also available from this school — completing theory and pool here and doing the outdoor dives at a dive centre abroad — for students planning to travel. The certification is compatible with PADI and SSI dive centres worldwide.
SSI Try Scuba
The SSI Try Scuba programme at Scublue is their most popular course — it runs weekly at Zwembad Het Wedde in Voorschoten, on Wednesday evenings from 19:30 to 21:30 and Sunday afternoons from 14:00 to 16:00. Groups are capped at four participants per instructor. The minimum age is eight years old, which makes it one of the few scuba programmes in the country accessible to young children. For most participants, it is genuinely the first time they breathe underwater. The session starts with a detailed briefing covering the equipment, the signals used to communicate underwater, and the rules followed during the dive. Scublue emphasises that participants set their own pace — nothing is compulsory and the instructor adapts to each person's comfort level. That works well for first-timers who are uncertain about whether they will be comfortable wearing a regulator and breathing from a tank. The underwater video made during the session is included in the price. All dive equipment is provided — BCD, regulator, wetsuit, fins, mask — along with pool entry and digital materials via the SSI app. You also receive a digital certificate through the app at the end. The session is available in Dutch, English, German, and Polish. If you want to continue after the intro, Scublue credits the Try Scuba price as a discount on the SSI Basic Diver or SSI Open Water Diver course. That makes the €64.50 a useful first investment rather than a standalone cost. The Basic Diver course also grants a first outdoor dive at Zandeiland 4 in Vinkeveen as the next step.
Basic Diver
The SSI Basic Diver programme is Scublue's two-day introduction that takes you beyond the pool and into real open water. The first session is a pool dive at Zwembad Het Wedde in Voorschoten, where you learn buoyancy, basic regulator handling, and correct breathing and body position in the water. The second session moves to Zandeiland 4 in Vinkeveen, a well-known freshwater dive site in the Vinkeveense Plassen area. Both sessions run in groups of maximum four students per instructor. Zandeiland 4 is not a generic training lake. The site is known for large pike and perch, crayfish, and a collection of sunken objects and wrecks scattered across the bottom. For a first outdoor dive it is an unexpectedly varied environment — more to look at than most beginners expect from a Dutch freshwater site. The pool session happens on a Wednesday evening or Sunday afternoon; the Vinkeveen dive is scheduled on Saturdays with a flexible start time. The course is available in Dutch, English, German, and Polish. All equipment is provided for both sessions — wetsuit, BCD, regulator, fins, mask — along with pool entry for the Voorschoten session and digital materials via the SSI app. You receive a digital certificate through the app on completion. Minimum age is ten years old. If you continue with the SSI Open Water Diver after the Basic Diver, the purchase price is credited as a discount and you get exemption from the first pool session and first open-water dive of the full course. That makes the Basic Diver a sensible intermediate step for anyone not yet ready to commit to the full certification straight away.
Photo & Video
The SSI Photo & Video specialty at Scublue runs during the winter season from November through April, which makes it a practical course to complete before a dive holiday. The programme combines classroom theory, a pool session at Zwembad Het Wedde in Voorschoten, and a final open-water dive at TODI in Belgium. TODI is an indoor tropical freshwater dive site with clear water and visible fish life — a better environment for first-time underwater photography practice than a murky lake in February. Groups run at a maximum of four students per instructor. The classroom portion covers basic photography and video concepts, how water affects light and colour, different camera types and their specifications, and how to work with filters and lighting underwater. You can review the digital theory materials in the SSI app ahead of the session. The pool work focuses on diver positioning while shooting — body trim, approaching subjects without disturbing them, working with different angles and framing. These are skills that take actual in-water practice to develop. The final session at TODI combines everything: real fish, clear tropical water, and the chance to practise composition in an environment where the fish do not disappear into silt. At the end of the TODI session the group reviews the photos and video together and selects the best images. All equipment for pool and TODI sessions is included, along with entry to both venues. Transport to and from TODI is not included. The course recommends against using an action camera or GoPro — a dedicated underwater camera gives better results and makes it easier to learn the principles. The Scublue shop rents Sealife camera housings for students without their own equipment. The specialty is available in Dutch, English, German, and Polish. A valid dive certification and swimming ability are required.
Navigation
The SSI Navigation specialty at Scublue runs as a full course day with two open-water dives at Zandeiland 4 in Vinkeveen. Sessions are scheduled weekly when there are at least three participants registered. The entire programme — theory and both dives — happens on a single day at the Vinkeveen site, which keeps it compact and means everything is practised in context immediately after it is explained. Groups run at a maximum of four students per instructor. Minimum age is ten years. The morning focuses on natural navigation: using underwater and surface landmarks to plan and follow a route. After the theory, you apply those methods in the first dive. The afternoon shifts to compass navigation — understanding how the compass works, how to set a heading, and how to swim a course with a buddy. Theory and practice above water are combined before the second dive, in which students complete multiple navigation exercises of increasing complexity using both natural references and the compass. The final dive integrates both methods. Each buddy pair plans a complete dive route with underwater navigation elements and then executes it as planned. All participants work together to set the plan, and each team demonstrates that they can navigate independently. It is a practical test rather than a demonstration dive. A compass is required for this course — it is not included in the equipment package. Strong buoyancy control and efficient fin technique are strongly recommended before attending; Scublue suggests the SSI Perfect Buoyancy specialty first if you are not yet comfortable hovering or turning in place. The course is available in Dutch, English, German, and Polish.
Deep
The SSI Deep Diver specialty at Scublue takes students to NEMO33 in Brussels for the deepest dives of the course. NEMO33 is a heated indoor dive tower — warm water, excellent visibility — and it is where Scublue introduces divers to the effects of depth in a controlled setting before committing to a full open-water deep dive. Sessions are scheduled weekly with a minimum of three participants. Minimum age is fifteen years. The theory module covers planning deep dives: minimum air reserves, nitrogen narcosis, decompression limits, and how depth affects your equipment and physiology. Pool training at Zwembad Het Wedde in Voorschoten covers the practical skills: horizontal ascents and descents, backroll entries, air-sharing ascents, and SMB deployment while maintaining a neutral hover. All of this is rehearsed in the pool before you reach any real depth. The deepest dives of the course happen at NEMO33. The controlled environment means you can genuinely focus on how the depth feels and how your equipment behaves, rather than dealing with limited visibility or current at the same time. After NEMO33, there is one outdoor dive at Zandeiland 4 in Vinkeveen, where you demonstrate the full set of skills in real open-water conditions. Certification on completion allows diving with a buddy to 40 metres. A dive computer and SMB are mandatory personal equipment for this course — neither is included in the standard equipment package. Scublue consistently recommends completing the Deep Diver as the final specialty in the SSI Advanced Open Water package, after buoyancy and basic skills are well established. A dive computer can also be rented from the shop if needed. The course is available in Dutch, English, German, and Polish.
Dry Suit Diving
The SSI Dry Suit Diving specialty at Scublue covers pool and open-water training at Zwembad Het Wedde in Voorschoten and Zandeiland 4 in Vinkeveen. Sessions run weekly with a minimum of three participants. Minimum age is ten years, and an existing open water certification is required. The course is available in Dutch, English, German, and Polish. If you buy a drysuit from the Scublue shop, the course is free. The theory session covers the types of drysuits, their features, and available accessories. It also revisits cold-water physiology and how a drysuit changes buoyancy management compared to a wetsuit. That buoyancy difference is the main thing to adapt to — a drysuit traps air that moves around the suit as you change position, which requires different trim habits than diving in neoprene. Pool training at Het Wedde focuses on putting the suit on and taking it off correctly, establishing neutral buoyancy with the suit inflated, and practising drysuit-specific emergencies — particularly the inverted position and venting a suit that has over-inflated. The open-water session at Zandeiland 4 confirms all skills in real conditions, including buoyancy management during ascents and descents outside the controlled pool environment. Owning a drysuit is mandatory for this course — it is not included in the rental package. The Scublue shop carries Waterproof and Santi drysuits, and as noted the course price drops to zero with a purchase. For divers planning to continue diving year-round in the Netherlands, this specialty is the practical step that makes Dutch winter diving accessible.
SSI Referral Diver
The SSI Referral Diver course is for people who want to earn their Open Water certification but prefer to do the actual open-water checkout dives while on holiday rather than in Dutch freshwater. You complete all theory and all five pool sessions at Scublue in Rijswijk, then travel to any PADI or SSI dive centre worldwide to complete the four open-water dives. The referral certification is accepted everywhere, so the choice of destination is entirely yours. Pool sessions run weekly at Zwembad Het Wedde in Voorschoten — Wednesday evenings from 19:30 and Sunday afternoons from 14:00. The theory module consists of six chapters accessed through the SSI app's digital learning environment. You can work through it at your own pace at home, or book up to four hours of classroom instruction with an instructor at no additional cost. The pool phase and theory can run in parallel, which means the full pre-departure preparation can be completed relatively quickly. All equipment is provided for the pool sessions, including wetsuit, BCD, regulator, fins, mask, and weights. Pool entry is included, as are digital materials and the referral certificate via the SSI app. The course is available in Dutch, English, German, and Polish. Groups are capped at four students per instructor. Minimum age is ten years for the junior referral, fifteen for the standard version. Once you have the referral, Scublue allows you to upgrade it to a full SSI Open Water Diver by completing the outdoor dives with them in Vinkeveen at a later date if you prefer. The Referral Diver is essentially the same first investment as the full Open Water course, minus the open-water dive cost, and keeps your options open.
SSI Scuba Skills Update
The SSI Scuba Skills Update — called the Opfris cursus at Scublue — is for certified divers who have not been in the water for a while and want to get their skills back before heading back out. It runs at Zwembad Het Wedde in Voorschoten on Wednesday evenings from 19:30 and Sunday afternoons from 14:00. Groups are typically one or two students, with a maximum of four, so this is effectively a private or semi-private refresher. Minimum age is ten years. The session starts with an online theory review covering the key points from the Open Water Diver course. Before entering the water, the instructor goes over all the important hand signals, runs through the exercises planned for the session, and asks whether there are specific skills you want to focus on — mask clearing, buoyancy, SMB, or anything else that has gone rusty. The session is built around what you actually need, not a fixed checklist. All equipment is included in the price if you do not have your own. If you prefer to use your personal gear, that is also possible. The course is available in Dutch, English, German, and Polish. Pool entry and digital materials through the SSI app are included, along with a digital certificate on completion. For divers who completed their Open Water or Advanced training years ago and are planning a dive trip, this is the most practical way to walk back into the water at Scublue without taking a full course again. The single-session format at €99 keeps it accessible.
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All courses at Scublue are available in Dutch, English, German, and Polish. You can request your preferred language when booking.
The SSI Try Scuba programme starts at age 8. The junior Open Water Diver brevet is available from age 10, and the standard Open Water Diver from age 15.
Open-water dives are done at Zandeiland 4 in Vinkeveen, one of the Netherlands' most popular freshwater dive sites. It has clear water, scattered wrecks, and freshwater fish including large pike and perch.
Yes. The SSI Referral Diver course lets you finish all theory and five pool sessions in Rijswijk, then do the four open-water checkout dives at any SSI or PADI school abroad. Your referral is accepted worldwide.
Yes. A full open-water set including tank, 7 mm wetsuit with hood, regulator, BCD, weights, mask, boots, fins, and gloves rents for €70–79 depending on the location. Individual items can also be rented separately.
Yes. The Bauer compressor at the Rijswijk shop fills cylinders to 200 bar during opening hours, no appointment needed. The fill costs €5.00. Only cylinders with a valid hydrostatic inspection and MK25 x 2 thread are accepted.
Most courses have a maximum of four students per instructor. Snorkel sessions allow up to six. The small group size is consistent across the whole course catalogue.
Yes. The school runs regular trips to Medes Islands in Spain and Malta, typically once or twice a year. In winter, group trips go to TODI in Belgium, an indoor tropical freshwater dive site.