Merhaba Mustafa!
Izmir hey... a great place, but I've never dived there - what's it like?
There is a licence that you have to have for amateur fishing in Brazil. The site is:
http://sinpesq.mpa.gov.br/pndpa/web/
and then follow the links, but you'll need some help from Google translate or something, because as far as I can tell it's only in Portuguese!
You will need to get Type III (Category C), which is for spearing, but also then covers line fishing, etc. You can do it all on-line, and then have to pay the fee of R$60, which we can also do on-line here, but I don't think you will be able to - you will probably have to go into a bank here to do so.
If you are using a travel agent in Brazil then they can probably help you with all of this. If you are only going to dive once or twice, then it may not be worth doing it at all, but I'm not sure about the authorities in Rio. The other question is if you will dive with friends, or if you will go on a charter - if it's the latter they may be already covered by licences for once-off tourists. Drakon will probably be able to inform you better about the Rio situation.
Anyway, hope this helps - let me know if you need some help with the site and the translations!
Cheers,
Aidan. :friday
Izmir hey... a great place, but I've never dived there - what's it like?
There is a licence that you have to have for amateur fishing in Brazil. The site is:
http://sinpesq.mpa.gov.br/pndpa/web/
and then follow the links, but you'll need some help from Google translate or something, because as far as I can tell it's only in Portuguese!
You will need to get Type III (Category C), which is for spearing, but also then covers line fishing, etc. You can do it all on-line, and then have to pay the fee of R$60, which we can also do on-line here, but I don't think you will be able to - you will probably have to go into a bank here to do so.
If you are using a travel agent in Brazil then they can probably help you with all of this. If you are only going to dive once or twice, then it may not be worth doing it at all, but I'm not sure about the authorities in Rio. The other question is if you will dive with friends, or if you will go on a charter - if it's the latter they may be already covered by licences for once-off tourists. Drakon will probably be able to inform you better about the Rio situation.
Anyway, hope this helps - let me know if you need some help with the site and the translations!
Cheers,
Aidan. :friday