Meet Hippocampus Team
HIPPOCAMPUS ISTRA
HIPPOCAMPUS ISTRA
We are a small family business, a team of dedicated professionals, willing to do whatever it takes to make you learn and enjoy diving. In summer time, our team expands with the addition of two well-trained and certified Instructors and a Dive Master.

CMAS Instructor Two Star, started with scuba diving recreationally out of love towards the sea and that love grew into a passion lasting for 35 years now. Opened Hippocampus diving center in 2006 and runs it successfully with lots of satisfied returnees every year.

Maja, our Assistant Instructor, will gently take you by the hand and show you the beauty of Discover scuba diving and especially cave & tunnel dives. She is a pedagogist with a long experience in underwater activities and loves to share people’s excitement with underwater world.

Ivlin, better known as Evelyn, is a Waldorf educator passionate about macrobiotics. She is our logistic manager. You will meet her in our office, where she will assist you in booking a dive and completing the necessary forms. She will gladly answer all your questions and do her best to meet all your wishes.
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We were lucky to enjoy four days of diving with Robi and his team, and it was a brilliant, fun and relaxing experience. The dive centre is well run, organised,... read more professional and above all there's no stress during the day.
The briefings given are informative, the dive sites are varied and interesting (our favourite was the four tunnels), and there never seemed to be any rush. Each of the dives from the boat were in excess of 50 minutes, and the pace under the water was very mellow.
As the dive centre is located in the campsite, and as there is a generous break between the dives, means that you can grab a drink or snack very easily.
We're hoping to return next year and see if we can spot the elusive seahorse!
My boyfriend and I did the open water course at hippocampus diving center. We are very pleased with the course and diving center. The diving instructor Sebastian, is... read more a very friendly and relaxed guy. He made us feel really safe while diving and took his time explaining the things we needed to learn. During the course there was a lot of focus on diving safety, how to take care of yourself and your buddy under water. The course was a great experience for us, we had a lot of fun and fell in love with diving. After completing the course we did our first boat dive with Robi. He also made us feel very safe and took time to help us during this experience. Hippocampus is a very good, well maintained diving center. The team is very friendly and relaxed. We would definitely recommend going here, if you want to go diving. …
Hippocampus DC is really amazing: the team arrange very well all the trips to different diving sites every day, so in few days I could discovered the best spot in... read more Stoja. The diving center is very clean and organized, and the full team is highly prepared about each diving site. All the equipments are great, every diving is super safe and I felt a familiar and friendly treatment. It's the best spot if you want discover suca diving or if you want to take your certification/specialty. I would recommend it to anyone that goes to Croatia! …
We tried the Try Scuba Diving experience at the Hippocampus diving center. Everything was smooth from the start to the finish. All it took for booking was a simple Whatsapp... read more message to Robi and he did the reservation and answered all my questions advance before the appointment and made us already feel extremely comfortable about the experience.
On the day of the diving, Laura was assigned to us as an instructor. To be honest, some of us were non-swimmers and extremely panicky about the experience. However, Laura was very patient with us and helped us enjoy the experience. We spent a lot of time trying to get comfortable in our scuba diving gear in the surface, so we didn't have much time left for the actual diving experience. But Laura and the other Hippocampus staff were quite accommodating and let us spend extra time so that we could have our first memorable diving experience. Everyone was so nice to us! I'm so happy with the memories that I will carry for the rest of my life. Special thanks to Laura for everything! Definitely want to take up a longer scuba diving training course now.
A very professional and kind and friendly team of divers. We had an amazing time with them. We felt very safe in their hands and with them on the boat... read more as they know every single part of their local coast. My two young boys loved the diving experience with them and were well looked after. Thank you again Hippocampus team!
Hippocampus DC is really amazing: the team arrange very well all the trips to different diving sites every day, so in few days I could discovered the best spot in... read more Stoja. The diving center is very clean and organized, and the full team is highly prepared about each diving site. All the equipments are great, every diving is super safe and I felt a familiar and friendly treatment. It's the best spot if you want discover suca diving or if you want to take your certification/specialty. I would recommend it to anyone that goes to Croatia!
Joined hippocampus for a morning wreck dive to the "Tito vis" wreck at 33m depth. Booked the evening before, but they were super helpful and accommodating. 17 degrees temp and... read more about 20m visibility. We nipped out on a pretty tidy rib and were at the dive site in only about 15min. Good done briefing, good group control from the guide and everything from start to finish ran nice and professional. Had my own gear, but school gear and compressor looked well maintained and looked after.
Have had my own dive centre for the last 7 years so I can certainly say that it was a good all round experience from a good, well run done centre. Have a great rest of the season guys.
I had a wonderfull Diving experience without hippocampus. They are professional but still have me a good time and made me feel save. The dives were beautiful and the staff... read more was patient and helpfully. Especially Brita was nice to be around. Hope to come back soon..
We were lucky to enjoy four days of diving with Robi and his team, and it was a brilliant, fun and relaxing experience. The dive centre is well run, organised,... read more professional and above all there's no stress during the day. The briefings given are informative, the dive sites are
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