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Athens Scuba Park

Dive Centre Center (English)

Service:
  • Accommodation for Divers
  • Air
  • Dive Shops
  • Equipment Gear Rentals
  • Gear Equipment Servicing
  • PADI
  • School Course Learn to Dive
  • Underwater Photography/Video
  • Underwater Publications Prints
  • Vacation Holiday Scuba Diving
  • Wreck Diving
Company description Founders and designers of the Athens Scuba Park are Calvin Wilcher, Shannon Wilcher, and their son Alex.
The Park was dreamed up because of the love for scuba diving and not having a clear, close place to dive, so we built one.
Calvin, The President of athens Scuba Park, Inc. holds a Master Instructor Rating, with a background in heavy equipment and sales.
Shannon, The Vice President, holds a Master scuba diver trainer instructor rating, with a background in communications.
We strive to give all scuba divers, snorklers, and guests the clearest, safest place to to practice their skills and promote diver education.
We also provide the other training agencys, ie: scuba shops, and individual private instructors a place to train their students.
OUR GOAL: IS CLEAR WATER, CLEAN CAMPGROUNDS, WARM SHOWERS, CLEAN RESTROOMS, AND FRIENDLY SERVICE.
Training: Athens Scuba Park always have classes going on that you can join in on while you`re here fun diving.
REQUIRED EXTRAS:
Student Kit - $90.00
Snorkel Gear - $150-$250
Scuba Gear - $50.00 Day
Lake Fees - $20.00 Day
Air Fills - $10.00 Each
WE OFFER:
Refresher course - pool only $100.00
Referral - pool/lake $250.00
Seal Team - -8 yrs -12 yrs old $50.00
ALL LAKE FEES AND AIR FILLS ARE INCLUDED IN THE ABOVE CLASSES
Jr.Open Water (10 yrs -14yrs old) $400.00
Open Water (15 yrs old and up) $400.00
Adventure Diver (3 specialty dives after OW) $150.00
Advanced Open Water (5 specialty dives after OW) $200.00
Rescue Diver $300.00
Divemaster $475.00
ALL THE ABOVE CLASSES REQUIRE - LAKE FEES/AIR FILLS
SPECIALTIES
Boat Diver - one day $100.00
Cavern Diver - (your reel) - two days $200.00
Deep Diver - two days on trip $200.00
Dry Suit - (your dry suit) - two days $300.00
Equipment - one day $100.00
Night - (your light) - two nights $150.00
Peak Performance Buoyancy - one day $100.00
Research Diver - one day $100.00
Search and Recovery - two days $250.00
Wreck - (your reel) - two days $250.00
U/W Photo - (your camera) - two days $200.00
U/W/Video - two days $100.00
U/W Navigation - two days $100.00
Side Scan Sonar - two days $1000.00
UW Metal Detecting - (your detector) - one day $50.00
Location description: With a location convenient to Dallas/Fort Worth, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, the park has gained popularity with divers for its excellent water clarity. The underlying clay, which had been mined for bricks, has a low pH level that keeps algae from growing, and the spring-fed waters boast an average visibility of 35 feet that can peak at 70 feet.
Along the shore, 9 entry-exit docks launch divers toward 33 attractions that run the quarry-kitsch gamut from the first Greyhound bus that country singer Ray Price toured in, to the Take Two, a triple-deck houseboat once used as a party barge by Clint Eastwood`s film crew of The Dirty Dozen.
Airplanes, motorcycles, boats and VWs round out the menu of playful quarry attractions, offering divers hours of enjoyment and underwater photographers a wide variety of unusual backdrops. Trains that occasionally rumble down the nearby railroad tracks send eerie sounds and vibrations reverberating through the lake, adding an air of otherworldliness for divers, especially at night.
The lake varies in depth from 24 to 35 feet and the park facilities, are designed for maximum safety and enjoyment for divers. There are no boats, jet skis, fishermen or, for that matter, anything that can entangle or cut you. Seven carpeted underwater platforms provide a safe area for underwater training. Look around while you`re here. From the beach volleyball court to the full-service dive shop, you`ll be amazed at what`s been done to the place.

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Diving center located in a spring fed lake in east Texas. Amenities and features include: sunken wrecks, dive shop, air compressor, dive training, carpeted underwater training platforms, camping and recreational vehicle spots.

Contact information:

Phone: 903-675-5762
Fax: 903-675-1761
Street Address:
500 N. Murchison St.
Athens
Texas
United States
75751
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 08-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT - 6 Mexico, Monterrey, Guadalajara
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