Dive Centre Son Bou Scuba

Dive centre Son Bou Scuba: family business since 2004

Join us in discovering Menorca’s underwater world! Muriel and Joop have been running Son Bou Scuba since 2004 and are excited to show you Menorca’s vibrant underwater life. As a family business, we strive to provide the best diving experience on Menorca, including the best dive sites.

In 2025 we celebrated our twentieth anniversary as a PADI Five-Star dive centre. Our many years of experience, combined with high safety standards and a professional team, guarantee your successful diving holiday. Please click here to meet the team.

Necessities for diving:

Scuba diving certification (certified divers only)
Insurance covering diving accidents
Medical questionnaire or medical certificate

If you don’t already have diving insurance, you can get it through us. We offer daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly insurance.

In Spain, a medical certificate of health is no longer necessary as of 2020. You can now declare yourself fit to dive, provided that the questions on the first page of the diving medical form can be answered with ‘no’. If you answer a question with ‘yes’, please follow the instructions on the form. Please click here to download the form.

To avoid disappointment, we recommend you register at least one day in advance.

Organisation

Every morning we organise a double dive – but you can also opt to do a single dive.

At least two shore- or boat dives are organised daily to some of Menorca’s best dive sites. We have dive sites all across the island. This enables us to dive every day, regardless of wind direction.

We usually get back to the dive centre around 14:30. This is ideal for divers who want to spend the afternoon with their family or to explore Menorca.

Snorkelling excursion & night diving

On request, we may arrange a boat dive or snorkelling excursion in the Northern Marine Reserve (weather permitting). The excursion departs at 15:30.

Night diving is possible with a minimum of three divers (weather permitting).

Free services:

✔ Pickup service
Free pick-ups inside the Son Bou area. We provide reasonably priced pick-ups if you’re staying somewhere else

✔ Free Wi-Fi
Unlimited Wi-Fi in the dive centre

✔ Safety kit
Includes surface buoy and cutting tool

✔ Guide included
Experienced instructors will accompany you during your dives at no additional cost

✔ Refreshments included
Between dives and at our centre, a light snack, water, tea and coffee await you

✔ Cleaning service
As a service, we wash, dry and store your equipment for you

Green Fins Member

We care about the underwater environment, as the sea is our ‘office’. That is why we joined Green Fins. Green Fins is initiative of the Reef-World Foundation that protects marine life through environmental guidelines. In collaboration with the UN Environment Programme, Green Fins promotes sustainability by offering low-cost and practical solutions to harmful practices such as anchoring, fish feeding and chemical pollution.
As a member of Green Fins, we actively try to minimise our impact on marine life, not only through efficient use of resources, but also through an annual self-assessment, regular environmental training for staff and participation in clean-ups. Our vision is to make sustainable diving and snorkelling the social norm, thereby improving the health of underwater environment.

Tec diving
Son Bou Scuba is the specialist for cave- and cavern diving in Menorca! We have 15 different caves and caverns in our program, ranging from easy to full cave. For divers who want to gain more experience with caves, we offer the PADI specialties ‘Cavern Diver’ and ‘Intro to Cave’. More information can be found on our price list page.

For those who'd like to try something new, we offer ‘Discover Rebreather’ dives in the sea with the Dräger Dolphin semi-closed rebreather. We also offer the PADI specialty course ‘Dolphin Semi-Closed Rebreather’; ideal for underwater photographers. If you already have this certification, you can also rent one of our rebreathers.

For sidemount and technical divers we have 11.1 aluminum tanks available, as well as 12-litre twinsets and 5.6 litre stage tanks with deco gas for deep dives. These tanks can be combined with XDeep back- and sidemount wings. We also stock items such as reels, spools and cave diving lights.

Equipment

Son Bou Scuba’s dive equipment is practically brand new. Every five years we replace our complete range of BCD’s, regulators and dive cylinders. We have 50 steel and aluminium tanks from 3 to 15 litres, in both DIN and INT versions.
The cylinders are filled to 210 BAR by three Bauer compressors with a capacity of 300 litres per minute.
Son Bou Scuba is a dealer for Aqualung, Apeks, Fourth Element, Shearwater and XDeep. In our workshop we can check your dive equipment and carry out minor repairs. We are also an authorised Apeks regulator service facility.
We have the following equipment for rent:
Apeks DS4/ATX-40 regulators with ATX-40 octopus and pressure gauge
Aqualung Wave BCD’s and XDeep ZEOS wings (sizing from 3XS to XXXL)
Aqualung I330R dive computers with color display (nitrox and deco)
DynamicNord & Aqualung aluminium LED dive lights (2000 lumens)
Aqualung 5.5 mm dive suits (sizing from XS to XXL)
You can rent a complete equipment set, including dive computer, for € 20 per dive.

Water temperature

In May, the water of the Mediterranean is still a bit chilly at 15 degrees. A 5-mm hooded suit and gloves are recommended. For those who get cold easily, a 7-mm suit or dry suit is an alternative, especially if you make two dives.
In June the sea water reaches a temperature of about 22 degrees, in July and August even up to 28 degrees. With these temperatures, a shorty or a 3-mm suit are sufficient. For the vacation month of your choice, please use the table below:

Month Temperature
water ºC Temperature
air ºC Sunshine hours
per day
April 15 10-18 7
May 15-18 13-21 8.5
June 18-22 17-25 10
July 22-26 20-28 11
August 25-28 21-29 10
September 22-27 18-26 7
October 20-22 15-22 6
November 18-20 11-18 4