Scuba Diving Courses, Scuba Equipment, Training & Service in St. Catharines, Niagara, Ontario, and Beyond
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  Dan's Dive Shop - St. Catharines, Niagara, Ontario and Beyond
 
  Canada's Oldest PADA 5-star Training Facility
   
 

Welcome to our course page, we appreciate you stopping by.

Whether you are a non diver or an experienced scuba diver, you should be aware that not all dive courses are created equal. Please allow us to help show you the difference we can make in your diving career. We are not your typical dive store.

We really do teach diving a different way and as a result of that divers are willing to travel to us for the different training approach we take. We teach students from all over Canada, not just our immediate area here in Southern Ontario, as well as divers from the US and even Caribbean islands, offering the most progressive diver education possible. Whether you come to us or we come to you the results are the same, exceptional diver training and knowledge development.

We feel that by giving you the right foundation skills and by using the industries most modern, simple and streamlined equipment configuration that you wiill master the skills and techniques needed to safely and effortlessly glide your way through the underwater world.

All of our Award Winning scuba diving classes are tax deductible as well so you can claim them on your income tax as education.

Please have a look at our BLOG to read and learn more about what we do, where we've been and the differences in how we teach.

There are also a great number of Photo's and Video's where you can click on the bolded icons to see our divers in action....You could be featured in there yourself once you're certified.

We run our Award Winning Brock University Scuba Diving Courses all year round. Weekend Courses run monthly. Please read below for more details. For more information about us and why you should train with us. Click here for (COURSE DETAILS........)

Not sure if diving is your thing or not? Check out our PADI Discover Scuba Diving Courses: Information Click Here (more details.....)

SCUBA DIVING COURSES

PADI OPEN WATER Brock Scuba Diving Course (more details....)
Our Award Winning 5 Star Scuba Diving program runs
Wednesday evenings for 6 weeks through the fall, winter and spring from 7-10pm with our summer program running 4 weeks (including open waters) Tuesday/Thursday
evenings from 5:30-9pm at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario


February 22nd, 2012 x 6 Wednesday evenings 7-10pm
March 28th, 2012 x 6 Wednesday evenings 7-10pm
April 25th, 2012 x 6 Wednesday evenings

PADI Weekend Open Water Scuba Diving Course (more details...)
Our Award Winning Weekend Open Water Scuba Diving Course is offered on Weekends for those who cannot make our Weeknight Courses. Courses run Friday PM for orientation, all day Saturday and Sunday here at our store and one of the Niagara Region local pools.

January 20/21/22, 2012
February 24/25/26, 2012
March 23/24/25, 2012
April 27/28/28, 2012

PADI Advanced Open Water Dive Course (more details...)
When you take a course from us with the title Advanced, we will offer you a truly advanced program, click on the above icon to see why our PADI Advanced Open Water Scuba Course is the Most Advanced and the Most thorough one in the dive industry. Students can participate on weekend long or by the dive courses. The by the Dive option is very popular, but weekend format gets it done in 2 full intensive days.

The entire month of February we're in Florida come do your advanced with is winter 2012.
Bahamas April 21-27, 2012
Local Advanced Open Water Courses starting June 2012

Enriched Air Nitrox (more details...)
Nitrox is something many people have the wrong idea about. It's NOT for Deep diving or technical diving. It is however, for EVERYONE! It allows divers to do more dives per day without feeling the common fatigue that diving compressed air offers.

November 29/December 1st, 2011
January 17/19, 2012

PADI Rescue Diver (more details...)
This is a course many would call their most Memorable PADI course. Students will gain skills to save themselvesand other divers from a potentially dangerous situation and test their own personal limits as well.

May 2012
NTEC: The Naui Technical Equipment Configuration Course (more details...)
A Modern Dive Course for the Open Minded, Modern Diver who wants to benefit from utilizing the most modern gear configuration and methods in diving. Course features an informative classroom presentation, pool session which introduces rudimentary skills and techniques. Course is videotaped for divers to review and debrief eachother in a positive manor.
coming soon

NAUI Intro to Tech: A Rudimentary Elements of Diving (more details...)
The Naui Intro to Tech course offers the diver a Fundamental approach to refining and mastering the rudimentary skills such as Buoyancy, Fin Technique/Propulsion Methods, Improving Diver Trim, Breaking BAD Habits, Diver Communication, Problem Solving abilities, Risk Management, Dive team Planning, Dive Equipment Streamlining, Horizontal Out of air sharing and more.

This Program has become one of Diving's Most Popular Courses for good reason. We feel Intro to Tech is the BEST Diving course on the market today. Step up to the plate and challenge yourself to be the best diver you can be. This diver will teach you and challenge you to be a better diver.

February 11-17, 2012 Florida
February 18-24, 2012 Florida
February 26-March 1st, 2012 Florida

April 2012 locally Class/Pool begins

PADI Wreck Diver Specialty (more details...)
Not your typical PADI specialty, we do it our way. Students will learn about hazzards of wreck diving, use of a guideline, reel handling techniques, using gas reserves, redundant equipment, anti silting kicks, use of a 7ft hose, External Survey and much more. A serious course for serious divers taught by the most experienced wreck divers around.

Florida Keys 2012

PADI Deep Diver Specialty (more details...)
Not your typical PADI specialty, we do it our way. Divers will learn about the advantages of planning deep dives properly and safely, utilizing proper equipment that we consider mandatory deep equipment, including large capacity single tanks, bail out botles, 7' hose, reel, surface marker bags, bail out tables and more.

Our PADI Deep program is the most informative and intensive deep diving program you'll find anywhere in the world for a reason.

Florida Keys March 2012

Northwind Lake Huron July 2012 & September 2012

 

NAUI Wreck Penetration Diver (more details...)
Divers can take what they learned in their basic wreck course and improve their skills, knowledge and understanding of wreck diving. Divers will also begin to engage in wreck penetration and exploration. This is the most complete wreck program you'll ever find.

Florida Keys 2012
July & September 2012 Northwind Lake Huron

PADI Digital Underwater Photography Specialty (more details...)
Learn how to take quality Digital Photographs with the NEW PADI Digital Underwater Photography Specialty.

Digital u/w Photography Course available upon request

PADI Equipment Specialist (more details...)
Divers will learn about care and maintenance of scuba equipment which will outline basic field repairs and modifications on equipment. This is NOT a repair Course, but will teach divers the inner workings of regulators, bcd inflators, tank valves, spgs and more. It's an excellent program for divers of any certification rating.

November 19th, 2011

PADI Drysuit Diver Specialty (more details...)
Diving in Canada? Diving Deep? Staying in the water long or doing multiple dives each day? Divers need to dive dry. It's warmer, more comfortable, more flexible and allows divers to do more diving per day. Reduce diver drop out and dive dry.

Monthly call shop for next course

Cavern Diver Course (more details...)
A must for anyone beginning their traverse into the realm of diving in an overhead environment. Our Cavern Course covers hazzards of diving in an overhead environment, use of guideline, reel handling skills, redundant equipment, anti silting kicks, using gas reserves, use of a 7ft. hose, streamlined equipment configuration using a hogarthian philosophy, prepares students for a Cave Course. The Course is based on the NSS Cavern Diving Program.

February 2012

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PADI Divemaster Course (more details...)
A Divemaster is a rolemodel who is experienced in the full spectrum of what recreational diving has to offer. Candidates will learn about Physics, Physiology, Decompression Theory, Equipment, Supervision techniques, The aquatic realm, and much more. If you've got the drive, proper mindset and discipline to succeed in a course of this magnitude, we'd be happy to have you.

March 2012

PADI Assistant Instructor (more details...)
Dan's A.I. course is tailored around you working in the industry teaching discover scuba's, assiting openwater classes, co-teaching with one of our experienced instructors and getting you up to par for your Final Step, the Padi Instructor Course.

Dan will conduct this Course Privately with Each Candidate!

PADI IDC OWSI Open Water Scuba Instructor (more details...)
The Journey is near Complete all you need to do is complete our OWSI classroom sessions, a series of Pool Sessions, Complete a number of Lectures, Write your sample exams and upon successful completion of all of this you'll be eligable to participate in the Padi Instuctor Examination where some of the heads from PADI HQ will evaluate your teaching style, watermanship skills, demonstation abilities and academic knowledge.

OWSI/IE Starts 2011

PADI Emergency First Aid Responder (more details...)
The Emergency First Response courses build lay rescuer confidence to provide care when faced with a medical emergency. Students learn and practice the same patient care techniques and principles used by medical professionals, but at a lay person level.

Monthly call store for dates.

PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle DPV Specialty Course (more details...)
One of the most fun ways to spend time breathing underwater is to do it on an underwater scooter. Diver Propulsion Vehicle's are fun, fast and makes any dive more exciting!

Learn about the different types and features of DPV's, maintenence, transportation, dive planning and safety, DPV diving procedures, as well as basic techniques of using a DPV, problems, hazards and more as you complete 2 open water dives with one of our Halcyon HDV T-16 Diver Propulsion Vehicles.

Monthly call store for dates.

PADI Sidemount Diver Distinctive Specialty Course (more details....)

Diving Sidemount was once thought to be only for the advanced cave diver, but now open water divers are experiencing this wonderful style of diving, which adds redundancy, simplicity and a more streamlined diver profile in the water.

Learn about the development, configuration and techniques needed to safely dive sidemount.

Available upon request call store for details.

Ice Diver Specialty (more details...)
The course will encompass how to safely plan and conduct dives under the ice in an overhead environment with the use of tenders on surface who communicate with the divers they are tethered to, as well as emergency and contingency planning.

January 28/29, 2012 Tobermory

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