Why Choose Us?
Our Approach to Diving
While we are a full service dive center and offer a variety of diver products and services, our pride and joy is training dive professionals. Our dive professional programs are not about doing the minimum. We are training you to be successful in our industry by teaching you real world skills and guidance built on decades of experience.
Our programs are usually a bit longer than what you might see from other training center because we want you to be exceptionally well prepared. We are one of few training centers in the world that can claim a 100% pass rate for our instructor candidates at their Instructor Exam.
We conduct a broad range of professional programs and our team have worked in diving all over the world. We provide employment advice, including help building your dive resume and exploring options for working in diving. We can connect you with dive resorts and centers in destinations all over the world that want dive professionals they can rely on.
Our Dive Center
Our full service dive center features two classrooms designed around dive training in the 21st century, as well as our full repair center, and retail floor. We carry almost every major brand of dive gear in the industry and provide all diver services, including training, tours, repairs, rentals, fills, and travel!
While you are training with us, we will see how the day-to-day operations of a high volume dive center function. All of our employees are Divemasters or Instructors, so everyone who assists you is an expert in our industry.
Learn in Sunny San Diego
San Diego is one of the most beautiful cities anywhere in the world! We enjoy sunny, warm weather almost every day of the year! With daytime temperatures usually in the 70s, you will find yourself wondering if every day is a beach day. With a wide variety of amazing restaurants, amazing attractions, and amazing diving, you are going to love your time here!
In addition to being an exceptional place to visit and live, San Diego is also home to some of the oldest dive training sites in the world. Recreational divers have been training here since the 1950s and military divers even before that!
San Diego is home to kelp forests, many shipwrecks, and one of the few California Sea Lion rookeries! Come see what makes San Diego diving so great and let us show you our amazing home!
Our Experienced Team
Our dive professional training team has decades of experience transforming divers into exceptional Divemaster and Instructors. We train all levels of diving and are one of the few facilities to have two Instructor Trainers on staff. Due to the depth of our team, we can help you get prepared for all aspects of your dive career!
What makes us exceptional?
We are committed to providing the best customer service and learning environment for all of our customers. To that end, we started with these ideas:
- We hire only dive professionals. Every member of our team is a certified Divemaster or Instructor. That means that our customers get knowledgeable information every time they choose us for their adventures! Our dive professionals have taught thousands of divers and are excited to teach thousands more!
- We cap all of our classes at 6 students. That is our absolute maximum. While the technical maximum we could take in a class is 12 students, we adjusted that because we believe that an intimate learning environment is crucial for learning and helps develop a strong relationship and trust between student and instructor. For our more challenging classes, we impose even smaller class sizes to further our students' learning and ensure their safety.
- We have exceptional gear both in our store and in our rental fleet. We feature exceptional SCUBAPRO and Aqua Lung gear and our rental fleet is far from the standard. We maintain high-end, weight integrated BCDs and console computers for our rental gear. We chose our gear with our students' comfort, learning, and safety in mind.
- We do not "sell" divers on gear. We do not push any particular items or try to upsell anyone. Our goal is to help you find the best gear to match your dive goals, abilities, and budget. We definitely want you to come buy gear from us, but we do not want you to have to come back to buy the same thing again because you bought the wrong item the first time. Our experienced dive professionals will guide to finding the best gear after discussing your needs with you.
- Our divers consistently come back from dive trips telling us a similar story about how they were among the best divers in the group. They are usually shocked by how poor buoyancy control is among students trained at dive centers that prioritize profit over exceptional training. It is a difficult thing to explain, but once you go on your first dive trip, you will be glad you trained with us!