Oceans Africa Announces The Opening Of The 2025/26 Summer Season For Diving In Cape Town

Cape Town, South Africa, November 2025, Oceans Africa has announced the official opening of the 2025/26 Dive Cape Town Summer Season, marking the return of one of South Africa’s most dynamic temperate-water diving periods. Travellers and operators can explore seasonal site information and dive options through Dive Cape Town, discover wider offerings via the Oceans Africa website, or request tailored private charters through the contact page. The summer season brings excellent conditions along the Atlantic seaboard, complemented by year-round diving opportunities throughout False Bay and the Cape Peninsula.

As southeasterly winds usher in cold, clean upwellings on the Atlantic coast, visibility improves across many of Cape Town’s most sought-after dive sites. The 2025/26 season highlights Oceans Africa’s focus on private dive charters, ensuring flexible access to shallow kelp forests, deeper granite reefs, protected coves, and more than one hundred recognised dive locations.

Summer Conditions Return to the Atlantic Seaboard

The summer diving period is defined by clear, cold Atlantic water created through seasonal wind-driven upwellings. These conditions provide some of the peninsula’s most reliable visibility, allowing divers to explore dramatic granite structures, deeper reef systems, and several well-known kelp forest sites. When swell or wind shifts affect the western coast, launch points in Simonstown provide access to False Bay’s more sheltered reefs, coves, and kelp zones.

This dual-ocean flexibility remains a central feature of Oceans Africa’s seasonal operations. Daily site selection is based on real-time conditions, offering visitors consistent access to optimal dive environments.

Kelp Forest Diving Forms the Core of the 2025/26 Offering

The extensive kelp forests that line the Cape Peninsula continue to define the region’s temperate-water diving identity. These forests form part of the Great African Sea Forest, a major marine ecosystem extending north along the west coast and into the Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area.

Within these protected areas, divers encounter reef fish, invertebrates, seals, shysharks, and rich cold-water coral communities. Many sites allow divers to move seamlessly between shallow kelp canopies and adjacent deeper granite slopes, making the forests a focal point of the 2025/26 Dive Cape Town Summer Season.

Expanding Access to Reefs, Wrecks and Seasonal Pelagic Sites

The new season also includes access to the peninsula’s diverse reef systems, wrecks, and offshore locations.

• Reef and Granite Topography: Natural gullies, caves, and swim-throughs shaped by granite formations offer structure-rich dives.
• Wreck Sites: Several notable wrecks in False Bay and along the peninsula provide varied depth profiles and consistent marine life.
• Shark Sightings: Inshore environments may host encounters with shysharks, gully sharks, and occasional sevengill cowsharks.
• Summer Pelagic Encounters: Offshore dives south of Cape Point, during warmer months, may include blue sharks and makos.

This combination of kelp forests, reefs, wrecks, and seasonal pelagic opportunities ensures a diverse diving season suited to a range of interests and experience levels.

Bookings Now Open for the 2025/26 Summer Season

Travellers and trade partners can explore site descriptions, seasonal insights, and charter options through Dive Cape Town. Private charters, and itineraries can be arranged directly through the Oceans Africa contact page.

Released in collaboration with WildBeest Media.

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