Diving Madeira editorial

Diving Madeira is written by a small editorial group, not by a named instructor. Every figure on a page (a dive price, a park fee, a depth, a guide ratio, a certification prerequisite, a water temperature) is taken from the dive centre's own page or from an official source and carries the date it was read. Nothing is ranked by commission. A named Madeira-based author, a PADI or SSI instructor with logged Madeira dives, is being recruited; until that person is on the page, the site claims no dives it has not made.

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How we research dive sites + operators

Dive sites, courses and dive centres are compared on what the centres' own pages state: sites offered, certification prerequisites, guide ratios, gear and park fees included, price and cancellation terms, read on the date shown on each page. Protected-area rules are taken from Visit Madeira and the IFCN register, and course prerequisites from the training agency's own standards. Reviews on third-party platforms are read for patterns but not reproduced. Where a fact cannot be checked against a source it is left out rather than guessed. Corrections with a source are applied on the page and the verified date is updated.

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