Sardine Run
Port St Johns: The Ultimate Sardine Run Experience.
ProDive is a trusted local sardine run tour operator with over 25 years of experience, dedicated to providing the most eco-friendly and unparalleled Sardine Run adventure:
Exclusive Aerial Support:
Highly Experienced Aerial, Land & Marine Spotters.
Established Expertise:
Operating out of Port St. Johns since 1999, we are the longest-running and most trusted local company in the area.
What Sets ProDive Apart
Book With Confidence
Rest assured, your money is safe with us. As SATSA members, we adhere to the highest standards of quality, professionalism, and legal compliance, backed by third-party indemnity. The SATSA logo signifies our commitment to excellence and financial stability.
5 Star Rated
Exclusive Spotter Plane Support
Our exclusive spotter plane, in collaboration with land and marine spotters, ensures that we locate the best bait balls quickly. Our specialised team is dedicated to getting you to the best sardine run action first.
State-Of-The-Art Boats
ProDive’s boats are modern and include state-of-the-art modifications specifically with the sardine run in mind. A specially designed camera tray that is positioned down the centre of the boat, additional fuel tanks that enable our boats to reach 160km and an aft seating arrangement, ensures more space with fewer people on pontoons and excellent agility, reach and speed.
Best Equipment
ProDive is the region’s number one dive centre and shop. This ensures that we provide divers with the latest and greatest new or well-maintained equipment. Divers on the sardine run are provided with 12ℓ steel tanks and boats are equipped with ladders for easy boat access as well as having oxygen on board. Benefits that few other sardine run tour operators have.
Seasoned Skippers & Dive Guides
Our skippers are all PADI Certified and seasoned sardine run experts. They have worked with the animals for over 25 years and their intuition and local knowledge guarantees the best sardine run experience. They have two goals in mind, your safety and making your sardine run experience the most memorable expedition of your life.
Superior Comfort
We aim to make sure that you are absolutely comfortable 24 hours of the day. We think further than your comfort on the boat – you are fetched from your doorstep and we ensure that you are accommodated at superior lodgings, and a major highlight, you are provided with a dry wetsuit every morning.
South African Sardine Run Tours & Charters
We have over 25 years of experience with this unique wildlife encounter and we cater for divers, snorkellers, free divers, bird watchers, researchers and nature lovers.
As the sardines migrate up the Eastern Cape Coastline (known as the greatest shoal on earth) they attract an abundance of marine animals that exploit this food source. By mid June, this breathtaking migration culminates in Port St. Johns, nestled in the heart of the Wild Coast, a 250km stretch of coastline renowned for its awe-inspiring natural beauty.
The migration of sardines attracts a multitude of predators and once the dolphins form a baitball, it becomes a mesmerising spectacle to observe the feeding frenzy that develops. All the predators from dolphins, sharks, whales, game fish and seabirds engage in a frenzied feast.
Our specialised and experienced team work together with our marine spotters and exclusive aerial support to get you up close and personal to this experience.
Complete with unique marine animal encounters, set in the most beautiful section of coastline, spending the evenings relaxing with friends around the fire eating, drinking and talking about the day’s excitement. A bucket list experience!
