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Step 1: Learn the basic theory behind scuba diving in the comfort of a classroom environment.
Step 2: Head down to the Blairgowrie Marina for a shallow-water skills session, get familiar with the scuba equipment and learn the essential skills needed for a safe and enjoyable dive.
Step 3: It’s time to meet the marine life! Spot a nudibranch, seahorse, or octopus — and if you’re lucky, glide alongside a smooth ray!
Step 4: If you loved this experience, ask us about our 3 day PADI Open Water Dive Course. Successful completion of this course comes with a diving certification.
The option to book in a double dive experience is also available!
Location
Bayplay Adventure Tours
3755 Point Nepean Road, Portsea, Victoria 3944
Duration
Approximately 4 hours, depending on group size.
Times
8:30am and 1:00pm
Location:
Portsea, Victoria
* please plan ahead when booking in your experience and arrive early to allow time for traffic and parking.
– for those driving it takes 2+ hours from Melbourne CBD to get to Portsea
– for those catching transport it takes 4+ hours from Melbourne CBD to get to Portsea. Catch the Frankston line to Frankston and the 788 bus to Portsea, this bus stops right out the front of our shop.
Inclusions
- All scuba equipment: tanks and air fills, regulators, BCD, mask, snorkel, fins, wetsuit, hood, weights, and SMB
- Scuba dive theory and skills session
- An ocean dive at a safe and protected location, Blairgowrie Marina.
- Bring a towel, bathers, and something warm and dry to wear afterwards.
- We recommend bringing a drink, snacks, or lunch. Diving makes you huuuungry!
- Participants must be 13 years or older.
- Minimum 3 participants per tour.
- A medical form must be filled out prior to your tour experience, this can be sent prior to booking. Please call or email if you wish to receive this prior to booking.
- Please do not dive is pregnant or planning to fall pregnant.
We recommend doing some research on what is required to successfully scuba dive before booking, Especially if you cannot swim and have not snorkeled before.
Scuba diving does not require you to have strong swimming abilities, however you will be required to fully submerge yourself under the water and move with the rest of the group. How far you go in this experience is up to and your confidence in the water.
Please know the dive instructors have a timeline to follow to ensure all divers get the most out of the experience. There are skills and requirements that will need to be completed throughout your dive, your dive instructor will ensure you and all other divers have complete them successfully before moving on to then next section of the dive experience.
Medical
- If you know you have a medical condition that may affect your scuba dive, please request our medical form before booking.
- Once booked, you will receive the medical form in your confirmation email. This must be completed before arrival, as you may require approval from a doctor to participate.
- Visit www.spums.com.au to find a Dive Doctor near you and contact us on 03 5984 0888 to discuss your options
- Please arrive 5–10 minutes prior to the start time.
- If you experience difficulty on the day, we can arrange a separate one-on-one dive with your instructor (additional fees apply).
- Please ask us directly, if you would like to organise a double dive for the day.
- For more information please visit our – Terms and conditions
*IMPORTANT – you must read our medical form prior to arrival. If Answering YES to any of the listed Conditions you must obtain a Medical Certificate from a Dive Doctor. Dive Medical Form
Medical Information
If needing a dive doctor please visit https://spums.au/index.php/diving-doctors-list
Prior to arrival:
During peak times, travel to the Peninsula can be delayed due to high traffic congestion.
Please allow extra travel time, including as well as time to park your vehicle and freshen up so that we may commence your tour as scheduled.
If you arrive late, especially without notice, your tour may be reduced or forfeited.
What to bring
Water-based activities: bathers, towel, hat, sunscreen, sunglasses, warm & dry change of clothes.
Land-based activities: towel, hat, sunscreen and closed heel shoes.
Please dress for comfort and for the weather.
Weather
In some instances, weather may change unexpectedly and a tour may need to be rescheduled at the last minute. If you have concerns regarding the weather, please call to discuss, or you can also see our terms and conditions for more information.
PS. The sun shines more in Portsea than Melbourne!
Parking
The Portsea public car park is 2 hour parking from December 24th until April 30th, 8am to 6pm.
All day parking is available in the dirt car park behind the BayPlay shop or on Franklin Rd (10 minute walk from Bayplay)
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Accommodation Packages & Local Attraction Passes
Combine your activity in a package with accommodation.
We have apartments for family holidays & spacious group retreats here above our shop in Portsea.
Terms & Conditions
For details please visit: Terms & Conditions
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The dive guides were exceptional: fantastic spotters, great planners, very patient and extremely helpful. Thanks to them, we saw the famous Weedy Sea Dragons — one on our first dive and two on the second, including one carrying eggs! A true paradise for underwater photographers.
We also spotted a rare big-belly seahorse and stunning coral formations growing along the pier pillars. The water may have been cold (October), but their top-quality equipment and perfectly fitted wetsuit made it totally comfortable.
It was honestly worth flying all the way from Dubai for this experience. An unforgettable dive and a must-do for any photographer or marine life lover visiting Victoria. Highly recommended!
Explained everything so well! Were very patient with explaining things over and over and made me feel so safe at all times.
Super professional, very well organised and limitless knowledge. I couldn’t recommend these instructors any more. Best experience ever!
Thanks again so much guys!
Snorkeling rental included the wetsuit which was greatly appreciated!
Would definitely book with them again
I had such a brilliant time, and I can't wait for my next dive! ????
The actual experience of exploring the area was amazing with mesmerizing views and decent roads without other vehicle traffic.
Its a perfect activity to do with kids!!
Kurt, our diving instructor at Bayplay, had a relaxed and welcoming demeanor and wasted no time getting right into the nitty gritty. He was efficient and effective with his curriculum and showed compassion, outstanding patience, and care for each of his students.
His international experiences, frequent travels, adventuring spirit, and deep understanding of self has given him unique perspectives in life, which 100% shows up in how and what he teaches.
While I’m sure other instructors are just as knowledgeable and capable, I believe Kurt gave tips and advice that was just perfect for beginner scuba divers. At the end of the day, I felt safe and in good hands in both confined and open water, and trusted in his ability to remain calm under chaos.
Bayplay itself provided an ultimate adventure experience for me that I can’t thank them enough!! Instructions were straight forward (although I would have liked to know that Medicals were not required for Covid diagnoses if you haven’t had it recently) and for what I got, it was priced exceptionally well.
Wetsuits, jackets, gear, the lot was also included in the package so that was very helpful. If you are able to buy gear elsewhere, it’s probably a good option as the selections were limited at the shops and quite expensive.
If you’re first time divers, skip the upsells for mask cleaners and anti-fog. Toothpaste will clean your mask just as well and spit will keep your mask clear of fog.
Other than that, great place for an excellent experience!! Come here and especially ask to learn from Kurt!!
Seeing a weedy sea dragon and a seahorse and diving in kelp for the first time made it an AMAZING DIVE!!!
Spotted the Sea Dragons, and plenty of other wonderful creatures.
Highly recommend this company!
We did a guided dive with Tiff at the Sea Dragon Colony dive site under the nearby pier. Tiff was a great guide, and the dive was enjoyable. It was different from other dives we have done, but that is not a bad thing. My wife had equipment issues with her BCD inflation with the LPI, so her buoyancy control suffered. Understandably, she did not enjoy this dive as much.
Prior to this dive, I had never seen a sea dragon in the wild. Now I have seen several of them. Worth it. I have also not see so many puffer fish all together. I missed it, but my wife saw a stingray. The plant life was pretty, and a nice change from all the reef diving we did the week before on a liveaboard. The water is too cold for my taste. It was 66F in and out of the water. We normally dive with a 4/3mm wetsuit, but we definitely used the shop's 7mm suits. By minute 50, I was starting to shiver and was happy to get out of the water.
I wish we had more time in the area to see some of their other popular dive sites (even with the cold water), but we were on a pretty tight schedule. That being said, I recommend Bayplay for diving activities.
We watched the required video and went through safety stuff - this was done properly and professionally. Then we did our basic skills training in the sea as it was nice and calm.
This was followed by a good dive around the pier - saw dragon fish and stingrays.
The instructors (two for three students) were very correct and professional and helpful.
I am now enthused enough to get my certificate and I will be using this company for that.
BayPlay do lots of other activities and have a well-equipped shop.
About 3-4 hrs duration
A bit more practice in the pool would've been nice.
Awesome experiencing the underwater world!
On arrival we filled in some paper work, basicly medical questionars, watched a DVD and answered some basic diving questions, then it was off to the pool for basic training
We blew bubbles let water into our masks and disposed of it whilst underwater, basic survival i guess, and swam around the special dive pool to become familiar with the weightlessness, with a short drive to the Rye's pier and a lot of laughs with the other divers we arrived, geared up and a short walk to the waters edge and we were in the ocean . . . .
Stef the instructor kept a keen eye out for us but was a barrel of laughs once you got to know her, which wasnt long, but she showed us around and under the pier, we saw all sort of plant life fish spiecies crabs and sea horses it was a carnival of colour and life, an experience i would recomend anyone to do there is no comparison, it is a see to believe, and i would recomend Bayplay to anyone, they are friendly have the answers and dont mess around and get you into the action asap with a lot of fun, which basicly is what we want . . . . If its adventure and fun under the sun then it Bayplay cose there number one (corny jingle)


















