After nearly 40 years of diving in Hikkaduwa, Poseidon Diving Centre in Nilaveli, Trincomalee Diving Centre opened in 2010. Situated on the northeast coast of Sri Lanka, Trincomalee is renowned for its natural harbour and resident whale population; Nilaveli is famous for white sand beaches and the Pigeon Island Marine National Park. These areas provide some great dive sites for all levels of divers and the marine park is especially good for live corals, black tip reef sharks, shoals of reef fishes and turtles.
In the last few years we have explored some new dive sites nearby, including the historic Swami rock, Irrakkakandi wreck and many dive sites around the Pigeon Island Marine Park.
Poseidon Diving Centre, Nilaveli, has grown from a PADI centre, to a PADI five star diving centre and now a PADI five star instructor development centre.
The dive team consists of 3 PADI master scuba diver trainers and 4 PADI divemasters. We have 3 boats with fully trained crew operating daily diving trips for qualified divers, try diving for those who have not dived before (PADI Discover Scuba Diving), and all PADI diving courses. Begin your diving journey with the PADI Open Water Diver course, hone your skills with the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver qualification, or begin the path to a career in diving with the PADI Rescue Diver and Dive Master courses.
- We also arrange snorkelling trips in the Pigeon Island Marine Park and whale watching trips.
- The Trincomalee season runs from April until October and we use the same staff from our renowned Hikkaduwa centre, so you can be assured of our high quality, safe and friendly service.
- For Poseidon customers we have a free transport service from Trincomalee, Nilaveli and Uppuveli areas.
Dive sites Nilaveli Trincomalee
| Dive Site | Depth | Type | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irakkandy wreck | 6-10m | Shipwrecks | This is a wreck of an 18th century steamer and is close to the dive center. Fully covered with corals, anemones and good for seeing molluscs, nudibranchs and soft corals. |
| Pigeon Island South Reef | 4-16m |
Reef and Rock |
This is an ideal dive site to see all kind of reef fishes. Hard and soft corals. Host, sea, club and disc anemones . |
| Pigeon Island East Rocks | 7-18m |
Reef and Rock |
Beautiful rock formation with schools of fish, eels and rays |
| Pigeon Island North Reef | 2-10m |
Reef and Rock |
One of the best dive sites for beginners with many beds of corals covered with Christmas tree tube worms |
| Pigeon Island West Rocks | 5-12m |
Reef and Rock |
Colorful rocky bed with bubble mushroom and cup corals, schools of fish. |
| Black Tip Points | 2-8m |
Reef and Rock |
Best dive site to see black tip reef sharks, turtles, anemones, clown fish and schools of reef fishes. |
| Coral Island North Reef | 5-12m |
Reef and Rock |
Ideal dive site to find all types of anemones with clown fishes. The sea bed is fully covered with leather and sponge corals |
| Coral Island South Reef | 5-10m |
Reef and Rock |
Hard and soft corals spreading around the entire area, schools of reef fishes. |
| White Rock | 10-15m |
Reef and Rock |
Schools of fish and different types of sting rays. |
| Knife Rock | 10-15m |
Reef and Rock |
This is named after the knife-shaped rock in the area. Beautiful dive site with lots of reef fishes |
| Coffin ray | 15-20m |
Reef and Rock |
Special dive site for torpedo rays. Huge rocky formation with all types of reef fishes. |
| Matti Gala | 12-15m |
Reef and Rock |
Beautiful dive site full of anemones, clown fishes, groupers and blue spotted sting rays. |
| Eel Dock | 12-18m |
Reef and Rock |
Rocky bottom with many different kinds of eels. |
| Red Rock | 6-12m |
Reef and Rock |
Ideal dive site to see different types of hard corals and reef fishes. |
| Ghost Rocks | 15-22m |
Reef and Rock |
Unusually shaped rocky bottom with many schools of reef fishes. |
| Anemone bed | 20-23m |
Reef and Rock |
Very good dive site to see many different kinds of Anemone. |
| Sand hole | 25-35m |
Reef and Rock |
Flat reef bottom with a huge sand hole in the middle. Very good dive site for advanced divers. |
| High patch | 20-25m |
Reef and Rock |
A long reef with rocky slabs. One of the best dive sites to see big fishes. |
| Sithanam para | 12-18m |
Reef and Rock |
Very good dive site with many sting rays, eels and schools of reef fishes. |
| Swami Rock | 10-35m |
Reef and Rock |
Magnificent dive site with a historical value sting rays, groupers and all the reef fishes. |
- We can arrange boat trips to snorkel around the Pigeon Island Marine Sanctuary.
- Here you can snorkel with turtles, black tip reef sharks and other colorful reef fish in a virtually untouched marine environment.
- For those with no experience, snorkeling lessons are available and full equipment can be rented from us.
he southwest and northeast coasts of Sri Lanka are two of the world’s best places for whale watching.
Sri Lanka’s narrow continental shelf provides rich feeding grounds for cetaceans and there are 27 species of marine mammal to be seen here. The commonest animals to be seen are:
Blue whales Sperm whales Shortfin pilot whales False killer whales Killer whales Blainville’s beaked whale Humpback whale Bryde’s whale Minke whale Fin whale Pilot whale Melon-headed whale Spinner dolphins Bottlenose dolphins Spotted dolphins Striped dolphin Rough toothed dolphin Fraser’s dolphin Risso’s dolphin.
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Poseidon Diving Center
09th Mile post
Nilaveli
Trincomalee
Sri Lanka
E-mail : info@srilankadivecentres.com
Tel : 0094912277294
Mob : 0094778810766 
