- Stripped out logistical organisation: easy and simple for your comfort!
- Very advantageous group formulas, including full-board
- Commercial diving courses: HSE Scuba 30 and 50m
- Easy going dive centre, come as you are!
Our opinion on EPIR, L'Ecole de Plongée de l'Ile Rousse:
It's in the North of Corsica, in the picturesque town of Ile Rousse -translated as 'Red Island', though it's not an island at all- that the EPIR or Diving School of Ile Rousse has settled down. Ideally located in the marina, the dive centre is less than 50m away from the water... that much closer to happiness!
A former corporate tourism manager, the go-ahead Sebastien linked up with Jerome, a.k.a. Mola (he's got a puzzling bond with the region's sunfishes, or Mola Mola) to open an honnest, easy going dive centre. Their concept is simple: comfort, safe diving with stripped out logistics so as not to hinder your pleasure! We love it!
All your training wishes can be granted here, recreationnal but also commercial. EPIR teaches PADI courses, those from the French diving Federation and the French equivalent of the English HSE Scuba 30 and 50m. So if you want to learn scientific, archeology or underwater videography diving, this is the place to be! Groups and dive clubs can charter their own boat, and enjoy very advantageous full-board formulas. Most of the hotels and pensions nearby are used to seeing divers and their gear... Speaking of which, at EPIR it's all Scubapro equipment, quality guaranteed!
The friendly atmosphere is a life style here! Sebastien and Mola are passionate about the region (the Balagne) so they follow the Corsican tradition, and local delicatessen and beverages are served at the end of the day. The dives offer the typical fauna and flora of the Med: snappers, flabelline nudibranchs, conger and moray eels, sunfish and seasonal flocks of mobula rays. It's all good! For first timers and beginners, you'll try diving out in a shallow creek -or calanque- nearby... what else?!
When you're not diving (yes, as odd as it sounds, it can happen!), the Balagne country, a land of transition between the high peaks and the pristine Mediterranean Sea, has a lot to offer. EPIR enjoys local partnerships with outdoor operators so you can set up the craziest adventures for half a day or more, it's up to you!
That really is the driving force here: be yourself, do as you wish and take it easy! You come in a diver and leave as family. You always come back to Ile Rousse and EPIR, it's just a matter of time!
Un accueil très chaleureux, des explications claires. Un baptême mémorable. J'ai même eu la possibilité de faire des photos sous-marines avec mon appareil. Je vais continuer malheureusement en piscine car il n'y a pas la mer chez moi.Mais j'y retournerai pour mon plaisir
Un accueil très chaleureux, des explications claires. Un baptême mémorable. J'ai même eu la possibilité de faire des photos sous-marines avec mon appareil. Je vais continuer malheureusement en piscine car il n'y a pas la mer chez moi.Mais j'y retournerai pour mon plaisir
Un accueil très chaleureux, des explications claires. Un baptême mémorable. J'ai ...