Our diving Roots

“Scooba Tank” & “Bembaran Beach Resort” is the name that introduced Mantanani Island to scuba diving in 2009, when Gregory V. Armstrong (Abu Faisal), Aaron Gavin & Zamzani P. Amin developed the first “local certified dive professionals team”. Little did they know, their work and their innovative scuba diving equipment would expand the very possibilities of underwater exploration in Mantanani Island.

Now, the excitement and adventurous spirit of that first dive lives on through Empire Scuba's diving. Our dedication to quality and innovation has led to using world's premier scuba diving equipment for professional and recreational use. For over 15 years, Empire Scuba has given divers of all experience levels the means to live out their underwater endeavors. Whether you’re enjoying the beauty of coral reefs or getting up close and personal with a wreck, you’ll always feel prepared and in control with Empire Scuba.

Seasoned divers and newcomers alike can explore the vast wonders of the world’s bodies of water with diving Empire Scuba.

Empire Scuba puts the endless wonder of the ocean at your fingertips. When you select Empire Scuba dive centre, you’re getting over 15 years of dive innovation to help you have fun and keep you safe while diving. Creating new solutions to meet the demands of scuba divers like you is what drives us every day. Whether that’s making new strides in comfortable scuba fins or incorporating the latest technology into our diving computers, we lead the scuba gear industry by keeping the customer you in mind with every innovation. For first-time divers and scuba enthusiasts alike, we’re confident that once you choose Empire Scuba, you will let us accompany you every time.

Our diving

ABOUT SSI

Scuba Schools International (SSI) was established in 1970 with the vision of making it possible for anyone to learn how to dive safely. Today, SSI is the world’s largest professional business-based training agency, with 3,500+ Training Centers and over 100,000 SSI Professionals in 150+ countries. For over 50 years, SSI has provided high-quality training programs and materials for Recreational Scuba, Extended Range, Freediving, Mermaid, Swim, and Lifeguard programs from beginner to Instructor Trainer levels. With digital and printed materials available in more than 40 languages in over 3,500 international SSI Training Center and Resort locations, SSI enables people to experience the underwater world across the globe.

ABOUT INTERNATIONAL TRAINING

From its humble beginning in 1994 to today, the group of training agencies Scuba Diving International (SDI), Technical Diving International (TDI), and Emergency Response Diving International (ERDI) form one of the largest diving certification agencies in the World – International Training.

With 26 Regional Offices servicing more than 100 countries, the company today far exceeds the original vision the founders had when they conceived the idea on a napkin, sitting at a kitchen table in the early 1990’s.

SCUBA DIVING INTERNATIONAL

In 1998 the membership of TDI could no longer be held back from the demand to create a sport diving division of TDI and thus was born Scuba Diving International (SDI). The primary reason for this expansion was that dive instructors valued dealing with an agency that listened to the instructors in the field and created programs that were, and continue to be, very profitable because they are tailored to the way today’s diver wants to learn to dive.

TECHNICAL DIVING INTERNATIONAL

Technical Diving International was one of the first agencies of its kind. It’s focus was and still is on providing training materials and education for specialized diving situations ranging from Nitrox to Closed Circuit Rebreathers, as well as for overhead environments such as caves and wrecks.