WHAT IS AVELO?
AVELO SYSTEM
AVELO is an innovative system that offers an incredibly comfortable and safe diving experience with cutting-edge technology. It has a lightweight, high-capacity diving cylinder with an integrated buoyancy control function that changes the diving experience.
Since May 2024, Planeta Azul, a 5* SDITDI Dive Center, has been offering courses and diving experiences in one of the best diving destinations in Europe.
How does Avelo work?
The tank can be made lighter or heavier using the water from its surroundings. By adding or removing water, the AVELO tank maintains neutral buoyancy.
Once neutral buoyancy is achieved, it is maintained for long periods of time. This form of buoyancy is ultra-stable and is not affected by ascent or descent. This concept changes everything about scuba diving.
Imagine entering the water wearing one of our lightweight systems. On the surface of the water, you float because the Hydrotank is buoyant. When you’re ready to submerge, push a button and water will be pumped inside the Hydrotank and around an inner bladder. When you feel neutrally buoyant, stop the pump and swim down. You will have 20-25 minutes of perfect neutral buoyancy regardless of the depth or thickness of the suit you are wearing. You can ascend or descend freely without feeling pulled up or down. After 20-25 minutes, you will have consumed enough gas mass to become slightly buoyant. Turn the pump on again for 20-30 seconds. The water in the Hydrotank replaces the mass of the gas you consumed, and you experience another 20-25 minutes of pure underwater Zen. Repeat this until it’s time to return to the boat (or shore). At the end of the dive, you open the purge valve and all the water is released from the Hydrotank, you become buoyant and light, making the climb back on board a piece of cake.
AVELO is an innovative system that offers an incredibly comfortable and safe diving experience with cutting-edge technology. It has a lightweight, high-capacity diving cylinder with an integrated buoyancy control function that changes the diving experience.
Since May 2024, Planeta Azul, a 5* SDITDI Dive Center, has been offering courses and diving experiences in one of the best diving destinations in Europe.
Avelo Recreational Diver Course (RAD)
Diving with the Avelo system
Become an Avelo recreational diver with the RAD specialty course and enjoy new sensations underwater from the very first moment.
What the course includes
Course sessions with online material for the student, 2 dives, and rental of the Avelo system.
First theoretical part of the course with online material for the student and training session in the water with two dives using Avelo technology
Online theory session (2 hours)
Our course is based on concepts you are familiar with from your open water theory and expands on topics that are relevant to Avelo and apply to divers of any level. Once you have successfully completed the theory session, you will have 90 days to complete the in-water component. You can extend the 90-day limit by re-taking the quizzes to make sure you are still familiar with all the Avelo concepts.
Session in the water (2 dives)
During the two dives with your Avelo certified instructor, you will practice the skills needed to dive with the Avelo system safely. Your instructor will complete the certification process once all the rules have been met.
Get your certification with PLANETA AZUL
Once you complete your course, you will receive a digital certification that you can save to your phone or link anywhere in the world. Any Avelo Diving Center will be able to find your certification. Avelo will continue to be available in more destinations.
Prerequisites:
Open Water Diver, minimum 12 years old and last dive in the last 6 months
Duration:
1 day, 2 dives
Course dates:
Contact us and make your reservation
Maximum 4 students per course
RAD course price:
€395
Why become an AVELO diver?
AVELO is an innovative system that offers an incredibly comfortable and safe diving experience with cutting-edge technology.
Superior
buoyancy control
More hydrodynamic
equipment configuration
Sensation
of flying
Lower air
consumption
Longer
dive time
Cutting-edge
technological experience
Why does it work?
Eliminates instability
No vest or air bag can offer the neutral buoyancy provided by the Avelo system. When swimming with Avelo, you move, and when you stop, you float, providing underwater stability that standard diving systems do not achieve. This statement is based on our 20 years of professional diving experience worldwide.
Even thick wetsuits have a minimal effect on buoyancy, which is easily managed with our Hydrotank. Dry suits, although acting as buoyancy bubbles, are much easier to handle with the Avelo system.
Perfect buoyancy with intuitive lung control
Experienced divers emphasize the importance of lung control for perfect buoyancy, using the air bag (BCD) to adjust buoyancy to neutral and fine-tuning it with the lungs.
The problem with the BCD is its sensitivity to depth changes, creating an unstable platform for neutral buoyancy. The larger the air bag, the more sensitive it is to these changes, limiting the depth range in which lung control is effective.
The Avelo system eliminates the air bag, achieving perfect neutral buoyancy with the weight of the water. Once achieved, the diver can adjust their vertical position at any depth with slight modifications in breathing.
Perfect ballast on every dive
Proper ballast is essential for a good diving experience. Too much weight requires a larger air bag in the vest, exacerbating the instability of neutral buoyancy. Too little weight causes the diver to struggle to stay submerged, which can lead to overexertion and shorter dives.
The Avelo system takes advantage of the buoyancy of our lightweight hydrotank. When you need weight, you take it from the surrounding water, adjusting just the right amount to maintain neutral buoyancy. Need more weight? Use the pump. Less weight? Purge the water.
Are you an open water instructor and want to offer Avelo to your clients?
This course is for you
News
Avelo wins the prestigious innovation award at boot Düsseldorf 2025
Avelo, a pioneering company in diving technology, has won the coveted Innovation Award at boot Düsseldorf 2025, the world’s largest nautical and water sports fair. This award underscores Avelo’s commitment to revolutionizing the diving industry with cutting-edge technology and an exceptional user experience.
What they say about us
Hakim Meskine
As of this review, this is the only place in Europe where you can dive in the Avelo system. Thanks to Amelia and Avelo I discovered a new and better way to dive. I just spent a week exploring the marine reserve in the Avelo system and it was amazing. Thanks to Alex, Javi, Javi and Javi for the great (and safe) time. And, above all, thanks to Amelia for being a great instructor with enormous knowledge about the region and an enormous passion for marine preservation. I will be back with the whole family as soon as possible.
Pascual Casanova
We took the Avelo course last Sunday and the experience was spectacular. The treatment from the entire Planeta Azul team was unbeatable, especially Amelia, who made everything easier with her explanations and patience. We will be back to repeat without a doubt. Totally recommended and I encourage diving lovers to learn about the Avelo system.
José A. Cartagena
Wow!!!. The best team, the best professionals!, and they also have the revolutionary “Avelo dive” diving system, they are the first in EUROPE, where you can try and certify that the recreational diving revolution has arrived. Simply spectacular. Easy, light, comfortable and safer than the systems in use, ah! and cheap. If you try it, you won’t change. It’s like automatic transmission in cars.
Esther Tourné García
FANTASTIC NEW AVELO DIVING METHOD! Tremendously logical and simple operation!! CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PEOPLE WHO DEVELOPED IT!! Without a doubt, I would highlight: – the low weight of the equipment. About 12 kilos less than the traditional system; – and neutral buoyancy. You neither sink nor float… you simply dive! And my instructor Meli, the first AVELO in Europe, was magnificent. In just one day we did the practices at the Planeta Azul diving center in Cabo Palos.
Javier
I took the AVELO course with Planeta Azul, and I couldn’t be more satisfied. Pioneers in introducing this innovative technology in Europe. Amelia, the instructor, very friendly and patient, made it very enjoyable and fun. Highly recommended for those daring people who are encouraged to try this revolutionary system!