Baratti Diving

Ben mee geweest om te duiken, was goed voor elkaar. Werd goed begeleid en in de wachttijd was er gelegenheid om te snorkelen. Helemaal top. Super genoten van de onderwaterwereld. Nogmaals bedankt.

Equipe jeune et disponible qui encadre de façon professionnelle des nouveaux pratiquants à ce sport . La rigueur nous a donnée confiance tant sur les plongées que sur les aspect de protection sanitaires . La sortie sur l'île d'Elbe est à faire absolument.

Abbiamo provato il battesimo del mare, bellissima esperienza, consigliata per chi vuole provare l'emozione di un immersione per la prima volta. Tutto ben, organizzato istruttori preparati e simpatici, bell'ambiente. Speriamo di tornare presto.

Diving center fantastico, gestito da ragazzi professionali e competenti. Immersioni splendide sia nelle acque di baratti che dell'isola d'Elba . Dettaglio non da trascurare: il diving da la possibilità di parcheggiare gratuitamente!!! Bravi ragazzi continuate cosi!

Posizione ottima per chi vuole fare immersioni verso l’Isola d’Elba senza fare l’attraversata con il traghetto. Lo scambio di informazioni con il diving per pianificare la giornata in gommone è stato chiaro e veloce. Una volta arrivati ci aspettavamo un clima più accogliente e premuroso, hanno fatto molto affidamento sulla nostra esperienza come sub senza sapere bene il nostro grado di esperienza. Le due immersioni sono state belle, ci sarebbe piaciuto essere coinvolti dall’istruttore una volta ritornati a bordo per sapere cosa avevamo visto o solo ricordare qualche avvistamento fuori dall’ordinario.

One dive was given to me as a present from my girlfriend. We had to come from far and arrived a bit late. First the instructor didn't introduce herself. She asked my girlfriend about my experience, not me. When my girlfriend told her about it, her response was "I will decide about it, I am the instructor". Then she gave me a form to fill in and left to take some diving equipment. I told her my last dive was in sweet water and already two years ago. I didn't get the opportunity to fit the jacket, had to put it immediately on the bottle, while she was waiting and pushed with asking if I already finished. The quality of the equipment was ok. I asked if she could give me some information about the boat, the trip and the dive (also to know if I should bring a bag on board, bring my glasses, a bottle of water), but the answer was that she would tell me on the boat. So we went on the boat, I didn't bring anything. After 10 min we arrived at the diving spot, "the finger". Her colleague (Federica) gave the instructions in italian to two italian men, and the instructor (I still don't know her name) to me in English. Federica and me were assigned to each other as buddies. I don't know which is the experience of Federica, we didn't have a chance to speak before we went into the water. I wonder if the instructor also told Frederica that we were buddies, because during the dive Frederica never stayed close, went everywhere to look in every hole she could find and never looked at me, her buddy. At first I tried to stay close to her, but that was not working. Then I decided to at least stay close to the group, the other three (two men and the instructor) because the visibility was not good (10-12m) and then to keep an eye on my buddy from more distance. At one moment the instructor waved at me and asked me to follow her, so I did. When I reached her, the two men had followed but my buddy was out of sight. The instructor then looked angry at me and signalled where I left my buddy! Luckily I think she then realised it was the buddy that was not making good, because after Federica finally reached us, the instructor signalled to her that she now had to lead. From that moment it was finally possible to stay close to her, but that was only a few minutes before we went to the surface. There was no debriefing. On the zodiac the instructor tried to tell me that I had to take my jacket and regulator already off the bottle, but because of the noise of the zodiac and the water I didn't hear her and asked her to repeat. Apparently also that was not nice for her, according to the face that she made. I saw her once more in the shop and asked for a stamp in my logbook. For the rest there was no talking. Conclusion: - equipment: ok - dive: visibility so so, for the rest a quiet dive. - buddy: not good - information before leaving: zero - briefing on board: ok - friendliness: zero I would advice everybody to look further for an other dive center, unless you don't mind about friendliness and professionality and if you bring your own reliable buddy.

It's a moment now I think about writing a review about this dive center. I don't like to write negativ things, but after long reflexion, I think it is important to tell about it from a point of view of somebody who worked in this industrie. To begin, it's the first diving center I was (even in Italy) who won't control your level, you never have to show your certification. Just tell what you want, nobody care. If you have a sickness or maybe you don't know that you can not dive for medical reson, nobody will care. They don't want to see your medical attest and if you don't have one they will not ask you to fill up a medical statement. The organisation of the dive center is a pure chaos, there is no organised place to dry the gears properly, no organisation at all, everything just hang outside over fence or just where there is place. As good as the next day you find your stuff again ... or not. That exactly what happend to my friends, they exchange the gears between the divers. Always usefull to ask you to pay for a "check dive" (where they check absolutly no skills by the way) ... As every guest wash the dive center gear by themself, without any supervision or explaination, I saw all the regulators beein washed by ... pressing the second stage, put under the water... The staff has absolutly no idea about the basics of security, I don't know if the "Dive Master" we had just get graduate or was new in the staff, even if she try to do her best, I'm sorry to tell that, but she has absolutly no Idea of what she do. I felt unconfortable for the other divers who was not so experienced all of what I saw was really dangerous, it's a wonder that nothing worst happend there till now. A little bit about the dive sites, maybe there are some nice sites over there, but where they took us has absolutly no interess, just put people in water and take the cash. A word about the price, the dives is really not cheap, for material renting expensive, for the quality and the serious, definitively overkill. If you are beginer, or has less experience, avoid this dive center for your security. If you are confirmed diver and you don't want absolutly dive here, then go somewhere else.