Porthkerris Divers

About Us

Porthkerris Divers is a family run dive centre that offers fantastic shore and boat diving, on site food, a relaxing dog friendly beach and activities for all the family. Porthkerris accommodates large and small clubs, solo travelers and families. We are able to offer the whole range of PADI Scuba Diving Courses,and other courses from IANTD and DAN, with our experienced Instructors.

Basking Sharks arrive off the Cornish Coast between late April through to August. We can arrange boat trips for divers to see or snorkel with these incredible animals, but this is subject to pre-booking. Basking sharks can often be found in the same area as good dive sites (like the Manacles), and an increasing number of divers have seen these gentle giants at close quarters underwater.

Basking sharks are, of course, plankton feeders, and as such do not have teeth, which erases one obvious reason to avoid them! However, their sheer size (up to 10 m. in length, and up to 7 Tonnes in weight) should make anyone aware that they posses incredible physical power