Our Aim

The Pavilion Dive Centre, with the help of Tawasul and Disabled Divers International aims to offer:

• Specialised training for Diving Professionals in our community to make diving more accessible to the disabled community.
• Subsidised training for instructors.
• Subsidised training for the disabled community.

About Tawasul

Tawasul is an Arabic word which means ‘reach out’ and ‘connect’.

• Youth Environmental Education.
• Youth Scuba Eco-ventures to international locations, such as, Mabul Island, Sipadan - Malaysia.
• Disabled Diver Education in the United Arab Emirates.

Disabled Divers International

The Pavilion Dive Centre, located in Jumeirah Beach Hotel is proud to be the first and only Disabled Diving Centre inthe UAE with professional DDI (Disabled Divers International) Instructors and Dive Masters.

Disabled Divers International (DDI) is a non-profit organisation with the aim to promote, develop and conduct disabled scubadiving training programmes for professional and non-professional diving students. DDI programmes add a new layer on top of the existing diver training; enabling individuals who would have difficulties fulfilling all requirements and standards to experience diving safely with modifications and enhancements to their training and or equipment.

Ernst Van der Poll, Diving Instructor at Pavilion Dive Centre, taught a young Palestinian man, Khalil how to scuba dive. Khalil, a double amputee and a survivor from Gaza, experienced the wonderful world of the ocean depths for the first time. To read more of his incredible story, click here.

To discover more on Disabled Divers International click here. 

Tawasul Disabled Divers Programme

Scuba diving has shown numerous advantages as a social and physical rehabilitation of disabled individuals, allowing them to interact in a near weightless state, with many feeling that the normal obstacles and restrictions their disability gives them on land, disappears in water when given the right equipment and training.

Tawasul and Disabled Divers International have teamed up with The Pavilion Dive Centre to provide:

• Social Inclusion: By integrating the disabled communityin society by offering training to volunteers to make divetraining available to the disabled community.
• Social Empowerment: By integrating volunteers in aprogramme that offers dive training to the disabledcommunity that will contribute to society.

Contact Details

The Pavilion Dive Centre at Jumeirah Beach Hotel
Telephone: +971 4 406 8828
Email: divecentre@jumeirah.com

To view all courses available at The Pavilion Dive Centre, click here.