Dive The Big 5 was established in May 1996, as an incoming tour operator, based in South Africa, specialising in scuba diving safaris and wildlife safaris encompassing the entire coastline and length and breadth of Southern Africa.

The "Dive" part of Dive The Big 5 concentrates on the scuba diving activities of the company which include Great White Shark cage diving, "free-diving" with Sand Tigers, Tiger, Bull and Hammerhead Sharks (The Big 5 Sharks), reef diving, wreck diving, and pure tropical coral reef diving along the coast of South Africa and Mozambique, as well as "live-aboard" diving in the islands of the Bazaruto Archipelago.

The "Big 5" part of the company concentrates on the Wildlife Safari and touring activities of the Company. The Wildlife side includes guided tours of all the major game reserves in Southern Africa, both National Parks such as The Kruger National Park, Hluhluwe and the Kalahari/Gemsbok National Park and a number of Private Reserves including Phinda, Londolozi, Honeyguide and various others. Also included under the "Big 5" umbrella are overland safaris through Namibia, Botswana (Okavango Swamps) and Zimbabwe to the Victoria Falls.

The "touring" aspect of the Company includes all the major tourist destinations in Southern Africa such as Cape Town and the Winelands of the Cape, the Garden Route, KwaZulu-Natal and the Zulu Culture and Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls with all the adventure activities associated with Vic Falls such as white water rafting down the mighty Zambezi River, elephant-back safaris in Zimbabwe/Botswana’s National Parks, bunji jumping, canoeing etc.

Scheduled or Tailor-made tours

All Dive The Big 5’s tours, whether they be diving, wildlife safaris or just general sight-seeing tours can either be Scheduled Tours with guaranteed, fixed departure dates all of which are accompanied tours where you have a local guide to host you on tour/safari, or a Tailor-made "self-drive tour" where we arrange the rental car and all the accommodation and excursions and you drive yourself, or a combination of both self-drive and accompanied.

Accommodation Offered

Accommodation can vary from basic dive lodges to local B&B’s to mid-range accommodation to 5 star lodges such as Londolozi and Phinda, although we do try and stay away from "back-packer" type accommodation.

Our Associates

Dive the Big 5 is a member of SATSA - the Southern African Tourism Services Association.