Welcome to Underwater Explorers
We’re based on Portland (Dorset) and open Friday to Sunday 9 to 5, Monday 10 to 5 as well as every Bank Holiday and weekend. We are likely the UK’s best stocked dive store and are also recognised worldwide as a leader in the dive industry with an excellent online shop: DirDirect.com . Whether you want to touch and feel an item you intend to purchase or have it delivered to your door with a 28 day return policy, we can fulfil your needs. Give us a ring or email us for any assistance you need or for a current stock check in an environment of global supply delays.
Enjoy your shopping!
Unit 1, Maritime Business Centre, Mereside, Portland, Dorset, DT5 1FD
LARGEST STORE STOCK IN THE UK? WE'RE PRETTY SURE.
Underwater Explorers stocks world-leading brands and specialises in wing, backplate, and long hose systems from manufacturers of cutting-edge technical diving equipment. We are the first dive centre in the UK to have embraced DIR|Hogarthian diving in 2000, teaching all recreational to technical mixed gas courses in wings. We are also a premium dealer for major brands, including Shearwater, XDeep, Halcyon, Orcatorch, and SANTI, among others.
FITTINGS AT NO EXTRA COST
From measuring you up for made-to-measure drysuits and undersuits to fitting sessions where we assist you in preparing and adjusting new single-tank or twinset wing systems and hose-routing configurations, with sound advice. We’re here to assist in-store 4 days a week. We specialise in technical diving equipment that is adaptable to all recreational dives and believe in doing our very best to ensure every configuration is future-proof.
SANTI STORE
UK’S LEADING SANTI CENTRE
FROM PORTLAND TO WORLDWIDE
The home of world-leading DirDirect.com, Underwater Explorers is Dorset’s premium dive shop catering for divers worldwide. We’re renowned for holding a vast stock of cutting-edge equipment. You can always visit our internationally acclaimed online store if you can’t reach us here.
BEST DIVE IN BRITAIN
Chesil Cove, with its sheltered low-tidal waters and abundance of marine life, wreckage, and reefs, offers one of the best shore dives in the country. Easily accessible by road, with plenty of local parking, the depths here range from 3 to 18m, and the Cove can be dived day and night. Read our Chesil Cove Dive Guide.