Madaplouf Diving

We absolutely loved the trip to Nosy Sakatia today. Michaele & Jennifer were a very charming friendly couple. Michaele speaks more than 4 languages and we were happy to see him talking in Arabic as well. As far as the island, Sakatia was a bless! Clear blue water & white sands! I plan to visit the other neighboring island next time i’m there with them. I enjoyed talking with Jennifer on the way back and hearing their inspiring story of how they decided to move to Madagascar.. Highly recommended!

I did a beginner course in diving with a friend of mine and we enjoyed it a lot. Clear instructions and roughly 45 min in beautiful water. Everything went according to plan for a good price. No complains here! Thanks!

Great experience in the warm waters. The weather was hot and made diving in extra enjoyable. You can see wonderful marine life like you're in a Nat Geo episode and you're the star for the day. This is perfect for a vacation. Highly recommend seeing this part of the world at least once.

Centre de plongée tenu par un couple bilingue très sympa, parfait pour un débutant comme moi.

Très chouette expérience. Guide très expérimenté et qui a pu nous transmettre beaucoup de ses connaissances.

Michele pushed back our diving over and over because of the bad visibility of the water, which made sense at first. But then he pushed back up until the last day of our stay. We were supposed to meet to plan the dive, he didn't show up (twice). He then called our host to cancel the dive at the last minute, without leaving any reasons, and would not answer his phone. In the end, we could have gone diving with another company, but because we trusted him we ended up not being able to dive at all.

The diving centre is run by an Italian former navy diver and his wife. I took my Padi advance there in October 2014, however I wish I'd chosen any other diving school on the island....the reason being - the guy's unprofessionalism and lack of teaching skills. He may be an experienced diver, however as a dive teacher he was a catastrophe... he started by laughing at me in Italian with another experienced guest diver as I couldn't assemble a DIN connection, cause for my Open Water I'd only learned the Yoke system (he didn't realise I could understand what he was saying due to my mother being of Latin origin). He also kept shouting and ridiculing me as I was using my air a lot quicker than him with my only 5 dives experience and that's absolutely the worst one can do with a new learner.
And last but not least he was sharing his air with me when I was almost out (which happned on the 4 of the 5 dives with him) so the other guest diver would have a buddy, however by doing this, he ran out of air completely once and endangered the whole group (fortunately I had a bit of air left in my tube and he shared the guest diver's oxygen).
So judge by yourself and think seriously if you want to dive with someone who's had bends twice...