Cinque Terre is a rewarding destination for hikers and epicures alike. But, let’s not forget, Cinque Terre is also about the sea, with plenty of opportunities for tourists to enjoy the marine environment. Diving is, thus, a manner of discovering the underwater richness of Cinque Terre, a world full of life and color for both the amateur and the professional divers.
Associazione Diving 5 Terre is headquartered in Riomaggiore. It invites tourists to explore five diving spots: the Lair of the Shark, Golfetto of Macrescia, Punta Montenegro, La Secca delle Aragoste and Via dell’Amore. The center also offers diving lessons for the inexperienced clients who nonetheless want to learn how to dive.
Diving Center Oasi Blu is located in none of the five villages in Cinque Terre, but in the neighboring Cadimare, southwest of La Spezia. The center suggests seven diving spots along the Ligurian coastline, and it also offers all sorts of courses for sundry categories of divers.
The San Fruttuoso Diving Center offers a wider range of diving opportunities, comprising 18 spectacular diving spots. However, the center can also be taken into account by people who want to explore the Ligurian coastline by sea, since the company also provides boat tours on request, including Cinque Terre (the Cinque Terre villages, except Corniglia, which is the only landlocked locality) as destination. The company is headquartered in Santa Margherita Ligure, at a considerable distance from Monterosso al Mare, but the quality of their services is worth the trouble of covering the distance between Cinque Terre proper and Santa Margherita Ligure.
Headquartered in Rapallo, Tricoli Charter is more than a mere diving center. The center complements its range of services with sports fishing and boat rental opportunities, which is always nice to consider by people who want to experience the Ligurian Sea to the full extent of its tourist potential.
The European Diving Center is one of the most prestigious diving centers on the Ligurian coastline. The company stands out not only by the 20 diving sites it makes available within the spectacular area of the Marine Park of Portofino, but also by the professional courses it organizes for all sorts of diving specialties and levels.