The Dive Spot was founded in 1998 by Johan Boshoff. His dream was to dive all the diving spots in Southern Africa. He already had an extensive amount of dives in his log book, but added another 400 to these while exploring the coastline of Southern Africa. From his travels abroad to the Red Sea, Zanzibar, Malaysia and most of the Indian Ocean islands, he gathered some additional experience and knowledge. But these exotic destinations did not even compare closely to his beloved South Africa with the vast variety of dives from sharks, caves, coral reefs and wrecks.

The Dive Spot team are leaders in Dive Travel, Scuba Training and Technical Diving in Southern Africa with Johan being a Trimix Instructor, Course Director, Technical Course Director as well as a certified underwater guide. It is a dive company that is passionate about Scuba Diving and Marine Life Education throughout the oceans of the world.

Johan developed the Marine Life Educational CD for household use. It is a user-friendly computer programme with more than 4 000 full colour photographs of Marine Life that will help divers and non-divers identify and learn more about the life in and around the ocean. Included are: An easy to use interface with basic and advanced search facilities, more than 40 dive sites and 300 dive spots in Southern Africa, 10 Interactive dive programmes for Sport, Advanced, Nitrox and Technical divers, 7 Interactive educational games to teach you family, common and biological names and a help file to guide you through the program.

Johan became the Editor of the Divestyle magazine in 2005. In addition to this, he is also a keen underwater videographer, photographer and presented a local television production called Borrels on Kyknet on the DSTV channel, where he acted as the dive specialist, presenter and videographer. 

He was involved in number of television productions for 50/50, a wildlife program. He also produced a documentary with Johann Botha called ‘Beyond 50m’ that was broadcasted in 2007 on South African television. With technical diving being Johan ’s passion, he arranged dive expeditions to the fresh water cave Chinoy, in Zimbabwe. Oshikoto and the Guinas granite caves in Namibia were next on the list. This expedition was to obtain footage of the World War 2 artefacts at the bottom of the cave. These expeditions featured in the Divestyle magazine and the footage was sold to French and German television.

‘The Dive spots of Southern Africa’ is an indispensable guide for all levels of divers, developed by Johan and his wife Amilda. Through extensive travel and diving, Johan and Amilda bring you their view of dive sites in Southern Africa with important info, full colour photographs of dive destinations, accommodation, facilities and descriptions of different reefs and fresh water sites to be dived locally as well as in neighbouring Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Namibia.

In 2009 Johan in conjunction with Annatjie Rademeyer brought out an underwater ‘Marine Species Guide’ in book and slate form. With the slate, divers can identify what different species they see underwater and then use the book as a reference guide to learn them by heart. The ‘Marine species guide’ book and slate cover most of the fish and other animal species found around South Africa and other tropical regions. This combination works very well with the ‘Marine Life CD’ program in identifying animals.

While on a trip to the Red Sea in 2011, he met two other authors – James Dawson and Dray van Beeck - who had a simplified version of his idea for an underwater photography book and since underwater photography is their passion, they decided to compile an easy to use handbook in a more professional form – ‘The Diving Photographer – Sea through a lens.’ This book helps all levels of photographers to improve their photographic skills, choose the right camera, set up their lights as well as easy ways to tweak the almost perfect shot.

All the products mentioned above – The Dive spots of southern Africa book, Marine Species slate, Marine Species guide book, Marine Life program and The Diving Photographer book – is available for sale on this website.

The Dive Spot specialize in Dive Safaris for international guests from all over the world to show them the hidden treasures of the South.