IDR 1.050.000
Kids aged 8 years or older get the unique chance to blow their first bubbles under water and engage in a fun introduction to the scuba diving life style. The Bubblemaker program is designed to prepare youngsters to become active scuba divers in a shallow and safe environment while having a first experience with Nemo & Co.
Attention parents! Are you looking for a fun, easy and safe introduction into diving for children? The Bubblemaker programme on Gili Meno is pure fun for kids aged 8 years and older. It encourages your child’s natural curiosity for learning in a fun and safe way.. Participating children should be comfortable in the water but they don’t have to be expert swimmers.
We start the diving introduction for children with a briefing after which we will describe the equipment and get into our specially designed training pool. We have of course special equipment for children to make the experience as easy and joyful as humanly possible.
Under the supervision of an experienced instructor your child will learn some basic diving skills, practise swimming under water in full dive gear and blow lots of bubbles.
If you think your child would like to shoot some underwater torpedoes? Collect dive rings without running out of air? Or play some underwater memory while remembering to blow some bubbles? Then the bubblemaker is the right choice for your little one.
The fun doesn’t end in the pool though. After a break, we load the little tanks on the boat and drive to a nearby dive site. There we will take your kid on the search for Nemo, Dory and Crush.
The maximum dive depth for both the pool and open water dive is limited to two meters to make sure that nothing happens to the little ears.
Bubblemaker open water dives can be repeated at any time and we can also offer more pool dives shall your kid wish to learn some more skills or play some more underwater games.
The diving for children program usually takes 3 to 4 hours. If you think that your child should have a longer break in between the pool dive and the ocean dive, we can of course accomodate. In general, please expect your kid’s first diving day to look like this:
Day 1 (08:30 – 13:00)
Would you like to have more information with regards to the bubbelmaker program or diving for children in general? Then please check our FAQ’s for some more details.
Assuming your child liked his or her first encounter with all those amazing fish and turtles there are some more options. Quick remark: only children aged 10 years or older can enrol into a certification course. 8-10 year olds can repeat the bubblemaker dives. A repeat bubblemaker dive doesn’t include the pool session and is therefore available for a discounted price.
Please note, the waters around the Gili Islands have been declared a Marine Park. Therefore a one time Marine Park fee of 100.000 IDR has to be paid by all diving and snorkel tour participants. This fee is NOT included in our prices and has to be paid in cash at our dive center on Gili Meno.
If booked in advance with a 50% deposit paid the Bubblemaker Dive comes to a price of 997.500 IDR. If you would like to take advantage of this pre-booking discount please contact us directly per email. Please note, the deposit needs to arrive on our bank account before you arrive on the island, otherwise it is not a pre-booking discount. LOL
Plans change. We know that too. Our cancellation policy is flexible and we are trying our best to meet your holiday schedule and potential interruptions of it. If you book a course in advance but you are then unable to do it because you get sick, we will reimburse you of course minus the transaction costs.
This is one of those questions with quite many answers. Children develop physically and mentally at different rates, making it difficult to define an age at which kids can safely dive. You should take your child’s maturity, reasoning skills and physical limitations into consideration when determining if he or she is ready to begin scuba diving.
At the age of 8 kids can join the first diving programs where the depth is limited to maximum 2 meters. This is to make sure, that your child won’t suffer any pressure or other dive related injuries.
Again, that’s one of those things that needs to be decided on a case-by-case basis. Does your child really want to scuba dive? Or do you want your kid to scuba dive. Deciding to take up any kind of sport should always be the choice of the participant.
A great way to get your youngster interested in the idea of scuba diving and excited about the underwater world is to take them snorkeling. Snorkeling is a great activity for all ages and some kids start to enjoy snorkeling even as young as 3 or 4 years of age. Snorkeling will also get your child comfortable in the water and using mask, snokel and fins. If your kid is an enthusiastic snorkeler and would like to take the next step, nothing really stands in the way of trying to dive.
Generally, the minimum age for starting a (junior) certification course is 10 years. As a junior diver kids can dive in specific conditions, at limited depth and under professional (or adult) supervision: The Junior Open Water Certification allows kids aged 10-11 to dive to a depth of 12 meters and 12-14 year olds to 18 meters. The must dive with a certified professional or certified adult over the age of 18.
There are some serious conditions such as epilepsy, active asthma, emphysema, heart disease or haemophilia that could prohibit any diving activity. Please refer to attached medical questionnaire to check if you are not sure: Diver-Medical-Questionnaire
If you answer any of the questions with “yes” on page number 1, then please check the related box on page number 2. If you have to put another yes there, then you need to see a doctor to get a fit for diving certificate. There are also doctors on the Gili Islands that can examine your child and issue this certificate, so don’t worry if you didn’t check the medical form beforehand.
Postcard-like white sandy beaches, azure and year-round warm waters (28 to 29 degrees), the reef on your doorstep and a great lifestyle – does this sound like paradise to you? To us it does! The Gili Islands are known as the turtle capital in the world – rightfully so, because both green and hawksbill turtles are abundant. Reef sharks are also frequently spotted and there is a broad range of marine life to be met on all dives. The dive sites are rarely more than a 15-minute boat ride away and diving is great all year round. The dry season is running from May to October and the rainy season from November to April. Rainy season sounds more extreme than it actually is because it hardly ever rains an entire day – expect showers at different severity but therefore less people.
Overall, the conditions are near to perfect for diving all year round. We can usually find some dive sites that are sheltered from strong currents and your chances for seeing turtles are pretty great!
In addition, we love kids and are of the firm belief that the more coming generations know about the underwater world, the greater are the chances of marine protection. Diving raises awareness in a special way and helps to look at nature from a different perspective. What better way is there than enabling your children to start snorkeling and diving at an early age?
We love what we do and we do it well! We have been in the game for over 10 years as Divine Divers on the Gili Islands but our passion for diving didn’t start here. During our long dive careers, we have dived all over the world both professionally and recreationally. Sometimes you come to dive centres that just have the little extra. A place you enter and you feel instantly at home. Being surrounded by likeminded people in a chill yet professional atmosphere. This is exactly what we had in mind when setting up Divine Divers. Needless to say, we are a highly professional dive center with very experienced staff. Our main differentiator is our personal approach – and of course our location at the most perfect sunset point on the island. You can spend the time after your dive to dream about the fish you saw and more dives while hanging out on a bean bag with your feed in the sand.
Apart from that, our groups are small and our instructors hand chosen for their personality and excellent teaching records. Safety is our primary concern; our equipment is in excellent order and of course regularly maintained. We are committed to offering outstanding service and high quality dive experiences.
