What should a dive centre in India run on?

The Andamans: registration, records and receipts

In the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, every scuba diving centre must register with the Directorate of Tourism before it starts. The Directorate's 2025 guidelines also ask registered centres to give proper receipts to every guest, keep records of the guests who come to them and the fees charged, and take divers only to the listed dive sites around Sri Vijaya Puram, Swaraj Dweep and Shaheed Dweep.

DiveOps keeps a booking record for every guest with what they paid and a receipt, and reports pull up any day or season. Your dive sites are set up once, so every trip records where it went. DiveOps does not register a centre or make it compliant; it keeps the records together so they are there when asked for.

Try dives by the boatload

On Swaraj Dweep and in Goa, much of the day is Discover Scuba and first dives for families and groups, alongside Open Water courses and fun dives for certified divers. Groups grow and shrink right up to departure.

DiveOps builds each boat's trip sheet from the bookings: drag groups onto boats and the capacity and kit sizes are worked out for the crew. Divers fill in their details and medical form on their phone before they arrive, so the jetty is not a queue of clipboards. Course progress is tracked to instructor sign-off, whether you teach SSI, PADI or another agency.

Seasons, Goa and Lakshadweep

The south-west monsoon shapes the year. Goa's diving around Grande Island stops for the monsoon months, and the Andamans are at their best between the monsoons. Lakshadweep is restricted: every visitor who is not an islander needs an entry permit from the Lakshadweep Administration before they travel.

DiveOps lets a centre plan the season once, with a year of dive-site pairings and a weather fallback for each day, and close dates on the booking page when the sea is shut.

A 24/7 WhatsApp front desk for India's enquiries

Indian travellers ask everything on WhatsApp, often several centres at once, and the first clear answer usually wins. DiveOps' WhatsApp AI answers on your centre's own number through the official Meta Business API, in English, Hindi or the diver's own language. It replies in under 2 minutes, handles around 92% of routine questions itself and sends your booking link. A person at the centre confirms every booking and can take over any chat. Centres get roughly 8 hours a week of admin back.

Your currency, payments and one plan

DiveOps runs each centre in one currency, set when you join. You can price in US dollars or euros today; if you price in rupees, ask about it on your demo. Payments can be taken by payment link with PayPal where it is available to you, or recorded at the desk. Gear and cylinders, staff rosters, payroll, the shop till and double-entry books are all in the same login.

DiveOps is one plan with every feature, priced by the number of divers you run through the year. Book a demo and see it set up against your own boats and sites.