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Scuba Instruction

Diving Adventures sell fun. Our name reflects the fun times that we have and we want you to have. We teach PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) certified courses from Open Water to Assistant Instructor and refer you to our local Burnaby PADI Course Director for your Open Water Instructor course. We are not a dive store, rather we are an independent dive school offering private courses up to assistant instructor level.
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PADI is the world’s largest diver certification organization and for more than 40 years, PADI has set the standard in diver education. This means that as a beginner you can learn your academic and pool skills in British Columbia and be referred to our local contacts in Cozumel and Thailand to complete your open water dives in warm water.  Alternatively you may complete the whole course in BC in our local waters. As a minimum requirement you need to be medically fit, be able to swim 200 metres or 8 lengths of a standard swimming pool and tread water for 10 minutes.

We offer a safe environment where you will be provided with all the equipment necessary to begin your discovery journey into the underwater world.  All you need is the desire to see underwater and to be in an environment that offers you excitement and serenity all in one place. Now how often does that happen in a regular day???

It often seems like children have no fear, endless energy and an inquisitive mind.  What better place to use these talents than underwater.  You can begin scuba diving at the age of 10.  You can learn as a family or one on one with one of our instructors. Either way there is a world down there waiting to greet you whatever your age.

Commercial Diving Services

For scuba students we sell fun but for our commercial diving services we sell professionalism. The majority of our commercial divers hold at least Master Degrees in their discipline.  All divers have undergone extensive training with local BC Commercial Diving Schools and are Workers Compensation Board Certified to work and dive on scuba to maximum depths of 130 ft below sea level.  As per the regulations, Diving Adventures supplies a minimum three-man team to undertake commercial diving work.  Whether it be scraping ship’s hulls or undertaking extensive marine biology baseline surveys we apply the same safety procedures and professionalism.
 

Equipment Sales

Diving Adventures aim is to offer first class diving equipment whilst at the same time supporting our local suppliers.

Our Instructors and Divemaster dive in Bare Drysuits ranging from CD4 and D6 Pro Dry through front entry Trilam HD Tech Dry suits to 2mm crushed Neoprene suits, the XCD2 Tech Dry and Pro Dry. Bare are based in Langley, BC and also supply Suunto dive computers and gauges.
 
We also support our local Vancouver supplier of dive watches from St. Moritz.  Our instructors dive on Apeks regulators that are top of the range in regulators. We supply BCD’s, mask, fins and snorkels through Beuchat who’s local distributor is BARE, lights from Underwater Kinetics and Nitrox Analysers from Amoxtec.

We also supply the first and best split fin from Apollo, located in Seattle.  Since we supply direct from the manufacturer, we are able to offer 20% off list price.

 Day, Weekend and Overseas Trips

With the emphasis on fun we regularly organize day trips to Nanaimo to dive the wrecks of HMCS Saskatchewan and HMCS Cape Breton.  Joe and Martyn our two senior instructors were two of the first 100 divers to dive the Cape Breton shortly after it had been sunk. Other trips from Nanaimo include Dodds Narrows, Clark Rock and Gabriola Pass.  Occasionally we will visit China Creek to dive the wreck there. We also regularly visit Porpoise Bay Charters of Sechelt to dive the HMCS Chaudiere, Tzoonie Narrows, Snake Cove, Twanik Point and Skoocumchuck Narrows.

Weekend trips have included multiple trips to Hornby Island Diving where we have never failed to observe six gill sharks, multiple trips to Porpoise Bay Charters and several visits to Quadra Island to both Abyssal Diving and Dynamike Charters.  We have also visited Barkley Sound where in one day we filmed a pair of six gill sharks, a swimming wolf eel, an octopus out of its den and observed a pack of sea lions feed on fish outside the Rendezvous Lodge in the early evening.

Overseas trips have included teaching Canadian and US nationals in Thailand and Cozumel Mexico respectively.