Bira · South Sulawesi
Dive the reef you're
helping rebuild.
From your first breath underwater to Rescue Diver — guided SSI dives and certifications on a living house reef, run by the Ocean Gardener team. Small groups, no more than 4 divers per guide, across 15 diverse dive sites.
Dives
Get in the water
Whether it's your first-ever breath underwater or your thousandth dive, there's a way in.
Ocean Gardener Intro + 1 Dive
Your first breath underwater
Never dived before? Start here. A guided introduction with our Ocean Gardener team plus one supervised dive on the Tevana house reef — no certification needed.
- No experience needed
- Ocean Gardener intro
- 1 supervised dive
Discovery Dive
Try scuba, no strings
A taster scuba experience for the curious — all the gear, a full briefing and a guided dive on a living reef. The gateway drug to a lifetime underwater.
- All gear included
- Full briefing
- Guided reef dive
Coral Diving
Dive the reef you're helping rebuild
A guided fun dive across our coral gardens and restoration nurseries — see the reef GaiaOne is growing, up close.
- Guided fun dive
- Coral gardens
- Restoration nurseries
Wreck Diving
Descend into history
A guided wreck dive off the Bira coast — steel and coral, light and shadow, and the marine life that has made it home.
- Guided wreck dive
- Marine life
- Dramatic terrain
Certifications
Get certified
Earn a globally recognised SSI certification on the Bira reef — from Open Water to Rescue Diver. (Rescue needs EFR first aid — grab it bundled, or bring your own.)
Open Water Course
Become a certified diver
The certification that opens the ocean. Over a few days you'll learn to dive independently to 18m — theory, confined water and open-water dives on the Bira reef.
- Certify to 18m
- Confined + open water
- Lifetime certification
Advanced Course
Go deeper, drift further
Advance your certification to 30m with five adventure dives — deep, navigation, and your choice of specialities on Bira's walls and drifts.
- Certify to 30m
- 5 adventure dives
- Deep + navigation
Rescue Diver Course
The most rewarding course you'll take
Learn to prevent and manage dive emergencies and look out for other divers. Challenging, serious and deeply rewarding. Already EFR-certified? This is the course on its own.
- Emergency management
- Self-rescue & buddy rescue
- Course only — EFR held
Rescue Diver + EFR
Everything you need, in one package
The Rescue Diver course bundled with Emergency First Response — the first-aid certification that's a prerequisite anyway. The complete path for most divers.
- Rescue Diver certification
- EFR first-aid included
- The prerequisite, sorted
Underwater Photography Course
Learn to shoot what you see down there
An introductory course for beginners and photographers looking to refine their skills — compact cameras and action cams, wide-angle and macro basics, composition technique, essential gear and proper maintenance before and after every dive.
A living house reef
Dive straight off Tevana House Reef — coral gardens, walls, wrecks and restoration nurseries, minutes from shore, home to resident turtles Tortelluna and Kara.
Ocean Gardener team
Guided by trained ocean gardeners and instructors — dive with the people rebuilding the reef.
Bira, South Sulawesi
Fly into Makassar, then ~5 hours south to one of Indonesia's most underrated dive coasts. Every dive day ends with a full lunch at Tevana Vida, our beachfront restaurant.
Diving packages
Planning to stay and dive with us for a while?
With 15 diverse dive sites — from deep walls teeming with pelagic life to a top-class house reef — a multi-day package is the way to see them all. Our dive packages include:
- Accommodation at Tevana House Reef or Seascapes
- All dives, including 1 night dive
- Breakfast, lunch and a BBQ farewell dinner
- 1 adopted coral per day
- Trip to the Phinisi Boat Building Shipyard
- Full diving equipment (excluding dive computer)
Ready to get wet?
Book a dive, start a course, or make it a whole trip with a coral expedition.