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Straits Scuba Center

Dive Centre Center (English)

Service:
  • Air
  • Dive Shops
  • Diving Charter Boat
  • Gear Equipment Servicing
  • NITROX
  • Rebreather Course
  • Rebreather Rental
  • Vacation Holiday Scuba Diving
  • Wreck Diving
Company description Welcome to the world of fresh water wreck diving!
You`ve certainly picked the right spot!
The Straits of Mackinac is one of the best locations in the world to explore lost ships. Dive sites range from wooden schooners & barges to a 588 foot steel freighter, the Cedarville. All skill levels of diving are available. Straits Scuba Center is the only dive center dedicated exclusively to diving in the Straits of Mackinac.
The Rec Diver is a modern, 42 foot trawler style boat with a full displacement hull designed expressly for Great Lakes use. It is diesel powered, steel hulled and has been specially modified for sport diving. This configuration yields a stable ride in rough water and a roomier diving platform than conventional pleasure boats converted to diving use.
The unique features of the Rec Diver are:
Spacious rear deck area with benches
Individual storage on deck
Dry storage for cameras, clothing and other equipment inside the cabins
Exceptionally large platform
Ladder extending across the entire stern for easy ingress and egress
Two heated interior cabins, both with 6` of headroom, with private head, benches and bunks
Easy accomodation of doubles
The Intrepid is a purpose built dive boat designed and constructed by Delta Boat Company, a major custom dive boat manufacturer in Florida. At 28 feet in length, it has a beam of 8 1/2 feet and is powered by a diesel engine. With less weight and size than the Rec Diver, it provides comfortable and fast transportation to and from dive sites.
The Intrepid carries a number of features you would expect from a custom-built dive boat:
Capacity is limited to 10 divers
Non-skid dive deck area occupies the maximum amount of space beam to beam and stern to helm
Custom tank racks and benches
Individual storage space on deck with additional dry storage in cabin
Interior cabin with private head, galley and v-berth bunk
Custom dive platform beam to beam
Custom dive ladder
Enclosed helm for protection from inclement weather
Whichever boat you choose, both feature the same equipment, conveniences and special features that only the leading dive charter in the Straits of Mackinac can provide.
Experienced captains and crew, who regularly dive the sites you will visit
Detailed dive briefings that include published materials
DAN O2 Emergency Kit and first aid equiment and supplies
Clean, well-equipped and reliable boats
Free parking
Convenient loading and unloading
A large ice cooler for your use
Bottled water, regular and diet soda provided as a courtesy
Air fills:
Unlike other dive charters, we operate the only commercial air compressor in the Straits area. It is available on a priority basis to our customers.
Location description: Diving in the cold Great Lakes is not like diving anywhere else. The bottom water temperature hovers around 40 degrees year round. The visibility is often poor. Wrecks are the primary objects and they abound with dangers both obvious and hidden. Our purpose here is to review the equipment you need to dive comfortably. As an experienced diver, you should make the final decision on your equipment based upon your experience, training, and planned dives.
Before we discuss equipment, however, we offer two general rules:
Double check your equipment before you leave home so that you know it is all there. Check it all again before the boat leaves the dock. While equipment can sometimes be borrowed from others, it causes a great deal of inconvenience and presents the possibility that someone will not get to dive.
Your dive trip is not a place to try new equipment for the first time. From time to time divers will show up with BC`s, dry suits, and full face masks without ever practicing with them. Dockside is no time to be cutting the price tag off new gear.
DRYSUIT OR WETSUIT?The favored method for diving is the dry suit, hands down. While wetsuits can serve the purpose especially in August and early September, a dry suit will enable you to dive comfortably any month of the diving season and regardless of the vagaries of each year`s summer temperatures. Both the rubber style Viking and Gates brand dry suits and the tri-laminate or crushed neoprene dry suits made by DUI or BARE and others are frequently seen. If you choose a wetsuit it should be at least 5mm.
DRYSUIT UNDERGARMENTS: You should bring a suit of polar fleece or similar modern fabric undergarment with you for use with your dry suit. Some older style undergarments or thin garments will not provide you with the same thermal protection. Properly insulated, you will find your body temperature maintained comfortably at depth.
GLOVES: Both neoprene and sealed rubber gloves will work well. While some committed cold-water divers regard rubber gloves as essential, a good pair of 5 mm neoprene gloves will keep a normal person`s hands warm and still allow flexibility of movement. Some neoprene gloves now come with a Kevlar reinforced palm giving more durability. Regardless of which you use, you will need to exercise care in using them in areas with zebra mussels present.
MASK: There are no special requirements for a mask. However, on occasion, divers bring along full-face masks desiring to practice with them. If you are not already proficient in their use, you may find your dives terminating early as you work the bugs out. In such cases, it is wise for you to leave the practicing at home so that you can enjoy your vacation.

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Retail dive center. Includes information on air fills, equipment, dive charters and dive sites in the Straits of Mackinac.

Contact information:

Street Address:
587 N. State St.
St. Ignace
Michigan
United States
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT - 5 Bogota, Lima, Kito
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