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WELCOME TO SUN DIVING
Looking for a trusted Scuba Diving centre to Dive in Sri Lanka ? You’ve found the right place here at Sun Diving Centre who is open all year round! Our coastal dive centre is located within Galle, right on the stunning beachfront of Unawatuna Beach.
We are a Sri Lankan, family run, PADI 5-Star Diving Centre that first opened their doors in October 2014. Our mission from the very start has been to offer the best professional and safe PADI SCUBA immersions, while you put your trust in our dedicated team to complete your holiday experience with exciting and fun explorations of the underwater world. Imagine thrilling and breathtaking adventures, with a touch of relaxing and social beach vibes with the crew! Here with us at Sun Diving Centre, you will always be welcomed with a gentle, friendly face from our local and international staff, eager to make your SCUBA diving experience memorable from start to finish.
Our highly trained and professional team can offer you a wide range of scuba diving and watersports adventures.
From absolute beginners wanting to take their first dive into the deep blue, all the way to experienced and professional divers seeking their next course or discovery! All of our courses are designed to help you build confidence and gain or enhance fundamental skills, in an educational and safe, but chilled and friendly environment. Take a look down below to understand more about what activities and courses we offer at Sun Diving!
OUR PACKAGES
Dive into adventures with Sun Diving Center ! From beginners to certified divers , our exceptional packages promise thrilling underwater experiences. Explore our offers and plunge into a world of wonder today.
Certified Divers
Enjoy a fun dive for certified level divers – from Open Water level to Advanced Specialty.
Dive Packages
Choose from our exciting dive packages we have on offer for a luxury holiday experience!
Discover Scuba Diving
For beginners only – join us to learn the basics of scuba diving, from age 10 & above!
DIVE COURSES
At the Sun Diving Centre in Sri Lanka, we are proud to offer PADI diving courses designed for divers of all levels. Whether you’re a beginner looking to explore the underwater world or an experienced diver seeking to enhance your skills, our team of experts will guide you through an unforgettable diving experience. Join us today and embark on your underwater adventure!
PADI Open Water Diver Course (OWD)
PADI® Open Water Diver is the first scuba certification level. A highly-trained PADI Instructor will teach you how to scuba dive in a relaxed, supportive learning environment.
USD 360
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course (AOWD)
Advance our skills and learn about underwater navigation, deep diving and three types of specialty diving that interest you.
USD 320
PADI Rescue Diver Course
Learn how to think like a rescue diver through home study and practice basic rescue skills with an instructor.
USD 390
Emergency First Response Course (EFR)
EFR primary and secondary care training teaches you what to do in the critical moments when a life-threatening emergency occurs, before emergency medical services arrive.
USD 170
DIVE SITES
From Unawatuna Beach we have 16 dive sites to explore from the depths of 5 to 30 meters. At Sun Diving Centre we can provide an unforgettable diving experience to suit all levels, and all interests depending on what underwater discoveries you want to find!
We offer a range of exciting activities including snorkeling excursions, fishing trips, kayak rentals, jet ski rides, surfing lessons, and dolphin and whale watching tours.
Excellent
Based on 238 reviews
ngibson79
2025-09-07
Great scuba place
Discover Scuba for my 12 year-old son, and a Refresher for me. Challenging diving conditions on the day (low visibility, lots of surge but it is low season and still got to see a wreck) but very professional setup. Manush and his team were very friendly and thorough, equipment and facilities were great, really impressed. My son hanse stopped smiling, or asking when we cab dive again. Thoroughly recommended and hope to dive with them again
Rune Van der Maelen
2025-08-20
Very nice diving experience with nice instructors
We had a nice diving experience here. They were honest about the sight we would have as it is off season now. We were with two persons diving and one instructor and one person who stayed with the boat joined us. We first got an explanation on land, then we could exercise everything in shallow water and only after that we went diving. We felt very safe and had a nice long dive. Thank you.
Luca S
2025-08-16
Amazing Sun diving Malli malli!
Diving centre very well organized and helpful and super nice staff. Great diving with the young divemaster Senul, super nice and considerate. See you soon great malli!!
Basile d
2025-05-09
Team 10/10 but weather not optimal
Unforgettable experience despite a seascape not crazy! The instructors were great and very professional. The dive lasted a long time and everything went very well. The only small downside does not depend on the agency but on the seabed which is not transcendent in terms of fish/corals/plants... but I recommend anyway!
Connor K
2025-04-13
Ill be going back!
I had a fantastic experience with the guys last week doing my PADI course. The man in charge, Shan, was very helpful with all of my questions and made the process of booking and sorting the course so easy!While doing the course my instructors were Minosh and Jess. Minosh made all the instructions and skills we have to follow very clear and straightforward to understand, making sure we knew what we were doing as safely as possible.While diving Jess helped me to overcome my nerves on a couple of occasions by calming me down under the water and not leaving until I was ready to continue, which I found very reassuring!Brilliant experience and felt I was in a safe pair of hands the whole way through.
Samitha F
2025-04-09
Friendly staff and Best Dive Resort
I’m Samith Fernando, a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer with over 30 years of experience and more than 20000 dives. I am the owner of Kalpitiya Diving Center and Scuba Diving Sri Lanka, both PADI 5-Star Dive Centers.Our second diving location on the southern coast is in Unawatuna. We recently visited Sun Diving PADI 5-Star Dive Resort in Unawatuna, and I must say that the welcome we received from Dilshan, the owner of the Unawatuna Diving Center, was incredibly warm. My family had a wonderful experience, and we did two dives with this centre. My children really enjoyed their time.Our dive guide, Mr. Tharu, was excellent—an experienced dive master who is very knowledgeable about all the local dive sites. The dive centre has a great team of instructors and dive masters, all of whom are highly experienced.The equipment was in top condition, and there is a nearby restaurant that serves delicious food, which made our experience even more enjoyable.A heartfelt thank you to Dilshan for his hospitality. We highly recommend Sun Diving PADI 5-Star Dive Resort in Unawatuna.Dilshan ❤️ Thank you so much for your Hospitality bro 🤙🏻 Happy Bubbles
Jess
2025-04-07
Amazing surf lessons
We chose sun diving centre to book our beginner surfing lessons with after having an amazing experience diving with them. They took us to dewata beach which was 10mins away (as unawatuna does not have good waves for surfing). Transport there and back is included in the price. Once we started the lesson our surfing instructor was super friendly, funny and had great English, making the whole experience even more enjoyable. We had some training on the sand first with the board and then spent around 1 hour in the ocean with assistance from instructor pushing us and explaining different techniques to help us improve. We had a really great time & can tell these guys have a lot of experience! Don’t hesitate to book with these guys if you want to learn surfing!
Shady Z
2025-02-16
Amazing Diving trip at Sri Lanka
We are Group of 15 certified divers based Qatar with around 5 nationalities went to explore diving in Sri Lanka and our amazing Dive centre was Sun diving SriLanka and the produce to us a five stars services and helping and Gide in briefing and in boat and in the surface and under water we did 10 dive with a perfect teem from their dive centre, all of them was perfectI have a special thanks for the perfect dive master Asia Kula for take care for all diver
The Reluctant Backpacker
2025-02-16
Great First Dive After Certification
Everything about this organisation was slick and helpful from the first online communication to the actual dive. As a newly certified diver, this was my first fun dive. They helped me check my equipment and then we were off in the boat to travel a short distance to the dive site. It was just me and my dive master in the water as my wife chose to snorkel around the anchored boat instead. The wind was whipping up the surf so visibility wasn't the best (about 8m I guessed) but sufficient to see the plethora of brightly coloured fish, the wreck, the amazing lines of seabed pots and the spooky statue which seems to creep up on you.Got to see a stingray and a lion fish.Back on shore, the tea was refreshing after the exhilaration of diving in a mild swell.Everything about Sun Diving was professional and the location is beautiful.
Jennifer C
2025-02-15
Group of 15 divers, excellent fun dives over 3 days
We were a group of 15 divers travelled together for 10 fun dives over 3 days. The dive instructors, dive masters and the whole team were fantastic. I felt safe with this dive centre. All the dives were boat dives and we returned back to the centre after each dive. The team took all our equipment to the boat for us, assisted us on board, helped us to put on our equipment and helped to get in and out of the sea. After each dive they took our kit back to the dive centre and changed the tanks over whilst we sat and drank tea! An excellent experience thankyou !