Learn to Scuba Dive

Learn to Scuba Dive – PADI Scuba Courses with Dan’s. Explore Our World Above and Below

Learn to Scuba Dive with Dan’s Dive Shop. We offer the the most thorough, exciting and modern scuba diving courses in the industry.

Scuba Diving is the most unique, freeing, exciting and relaxing life experience in the world. Spend your life exploring above and below with us.

There are thousands of great dive sites locally around Niagara and all of Canada, including  thousands of exciting shipwrecks, beautiful aquatic life, awesome geological dives and more that you can discover with us through our weekly dives, charters, trips and our exotic dive travel.

Find information here about our Discover Scuba and PADI Open Water Diver Courses, as well as PADI ReActivate Scuba Refresher Courses for certified scuba divers.

Start Today with our PADI eLearning option and learn at your own pace and book your 6 additional classroom sessions with us along with your pool training as we help you start your journey into the underwater world.

At Dan’s, We offer you a more thorough, progressive and modern approach to scuba diving education.  We’ve taught divers from every province in Canada, most US States and from around the world in other countries.

Fact: Over 35% of our Students come from the GTA and Surrounding Areas.  People are willing to travel for better training or fly us out or drive us out to them.  If you’re looking for a scuba diving course nearby, we’re available anywhere we’re needed.

When you Learn to Scuba Dive at DDS, we will help to save you from making the incorrect training and gear purchases and instead, we will offer you the best skills training and equipment at the best prices possible.

Students drive or fly into visit us for the highest Quality Training and Equipment.  We have Taught Students from Every Province in Canada and MOST US States.

Our Approach Diving is a lifestyle for us. We introduce you the right foundation skills, efficiency, finesse, team diving concepts, while balancing the physical and mental aspects of diving  to build upon as you progress through the life long adventure sport of scuba diving.

There is a Difference

Our DDS Divers and Instructors are the most skilled and respected recreational and technical divers in the water.

You’ll notice our divers look different underwater in comparison to the vast majority of the dive population.

You’ll learn how the right equipment configuration and fundamentally sound skills can set the stage for better diving.

Taking a more modern, “Team” approach to your diving and developing the essential skills and maintaining them is part of the tun too.

We Spend More Time in the Classroom, Pool and Open Water Dives to make you the best Diver you can be.

Personal Attention

At DDS, Teaching Scuba Diving is about Quality not Quantity, so don’t get “sucked into” a too good to be true $99 base price scuba courses. They aren’t quality oriented and they are never the price you see first, which is deceptive. That course will cost you more like $800 and most times you don’t even have an Instructor in water with you, which is a major violation of training agency standards.

No one offers a better, more thorough, more professional, more quality oriented scuba program than we do and we prove it time and time again when you get into the water.

Don’t be Deceived by “Fly by Night” Instructors or Dive Stores.

No one offers a better, more thorough, more professional, more quality oriented scuba program than we do and we prove it time and time again when you get into the water.

DDS Divers offer superior trim, posture, buoyancy, techniques

At Dan’s,  You’re more than just a number to us, you’re going to be part of our scuba diving family as a DDS Diver, so we’d like to develop you into the diver we want to dive with, by starting you off right with the proper skills, equipment configuration and knowledge that all divers should be privy to.

Already Certified But Haven’t Been Diving?  

ReActivate to your highest level of certification with a PADI ReActivate Diving Refresher Program and dive with renewed comfort, confidence, information, renewed status and learn some new procedures and techniques while you’re at it.

We offer an additional Open Water Component to learn the new skills and techniques and bring your diving up to the modern era.