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Beneath the Waves

Dive Shops (English)

Service:
  • Air
  • DAN
  • Equipment Gear Rentals
  • Gear Equipment Servicing
  • Ice Diving
  • NAUI
  • NITROX
  • PADI
  • Rebreather Course
  • Rebreather Rental
  • School Course Learn to Dive
  • Underwater Photography/Video
  • Vacation Holiday Scuba Diving
  • Wreck Diving
Company description Full service scuba and dive shop.
We offer:
Scuba Gear Rentals
Drysuit Rentals
Airfills
Scuba equipment Sales
Servicing of your scuba equipment
Scuba gear repair
Conveniently located in Vancouver
Scuba classes and education
DAN safety and oxygen training courses
Scuba refreshers
We offer everything from Open Water (Beginner) to Advanced and Specialties. CPR / First Aid, and refresher courses are also available.
Also an excellent variety of Specialty Dive Classes:
Nitrox
DAN Oxygen Provider for Divers
Night Diver
Dive Rescue
Drysuit Diver
Altitude
Boat Diver
Underwater Naturalist
Underwater Photography
And more!
Old Aluminum tanks? We are now offering the Visual Eddy tests for Luxfer, US Divers and Dacor tanks manufactured between 1972 and July 1988.
New items worth looking at:
Pelican Dry Boxes
Weight Harnesses from DUI
Expert Zoom fins from TUSA
New LED lights from UK
We rent the DUI weight harness for those tired of having their weight belt falling off their butt when walking back from the dive. We also have demo TUSA Expert Zoom fins for those who want to experience the best in new fins.
Do you have a save-a-dive kit? Let us customize one for your needs!
Come by and check out the new shop. It`s looking good and we have alot of new inventory filling the walls. The new salt-water tanks have been added. Fish, coral and critters are here!
We now have a full sizing range of U.S.I.A. dry suits for rental. We are doing Dry Suit orientations on Thursday and Sunday evenings. Come by and try on a suit. You can dive warm and you will enjoy diving more. Cost is only $100 dollars, which includes a weekend dry suit rental and NAUI specialty certification.
Underwater Environment
OVERVIEW
This course is to expose the diver to the physical and biological aspects of the diving environment with emphasis on the local area. This course will draw much of the subject material from related sciences, e.g., oceanography, limnology, geology, biology and ecology. The use of movies, slides and handouts are an important part of this course. Trips to aquariums and oceanariums will be most helpful. Effort should be made to expose the student divers to several diving environments, e.g., lake vs. ocean, rocky reef vs. sand beach. (May be for skin or scuba divers.)
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
Subjects to be covered are as follows:
Plant and animal life - identification, relationships, dangers, regulations, uses - food collections and aquaria.
Conservation and pollution - problem areas and possible solutions.
Water movement and characteristics - tides, currents, waves and surf, temperature, pressure, density, buoyancy, visibility and sound.
Shore, bottom and surface conditions - features, hazards, natural aids to navigation and wind effects.
Diving locations - sources of information, use of charts, arranging and planning of dives.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
Age. Minimum is 15 years. (Junior certification for ages 12 - 14 years is allowed. See “Policies Applying to All Courses”: Age, Junior Certification.”)
Certification: NAUI Scuba Diver certification or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate student knowledge and capability before any open water training and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.
Location description: Some of courses our courses:
NAUI Scuba Diver
The adventure begins! Imagine watching the water level move up your mask as you slowly go below the surface - and continue to breathe! It`s the most exciting feeling imaginable. The NAUI Scuba Diver course will teach you everything you need to know to independently and competently scuba dive with a buddy - on your own to explore and discover.
OVERVIEW
Scuba Diver is the NAUI entry level scuba certification course. It provides the fundamental knowledge and skills to scuba dive. Upon successful completion of this course, graduates are considered competent to engage in open water diving activities without supervision, provided the diving activities and the areas dived approximate those of training.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
Age. Minimum is 15 years for Scuba Diver certification. (Junior certification for ages 12 - 14 years is allowed. See “Policies Applying to All Courses”, Age, Junior Certification.”)
Diver Certification. None required.
Prior Training. Students who hold credentials from the NAUI Passport Diver Program may, at the discretion of the instructor, be awarded credit for skills and knowledge acquired.
Experienced Scuba Diver Course
OVERVIEW
This course provides a means for experienced scuba divers with no recognized recreational diving certification to become certified by NAUI. These divers may have military, commercial or scientific diving training or may not have any formal training. Graduates receive NAUI Scuba Diver certification with all designated qualifications.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
Age. Minimum is 15 years.
Diver Certification. None required, but must provide proof of diving experience of at least 25 open water scuba dives.
Diving Knowledge. Pass an entry-level written examination on scuba diving.
Night Diver
OVERVIEW
This course is to provide the diver with the skills and knowledge needed to minimize the risks of diving at night. (May be for skin or scuba divers.)
ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
Coverage is to include planning and preparation, night diving equipment, procedures, problems, hazards, navigation and buddy system techniques.
PREREQUISITES FOR ENTERING THE COURSE
Age. Minimum is 15 years. (Junior certification for ages 12 - 14 years is allowed. See “Policies Applying to All Courses”: Age, Junior Certification.”)
Certification: NAUI Scuba Diver certification or the equivalent is required. The instructor is to ensure adequate student knowledge and capability before any open water training and shall use skill or other evaluations to do so.

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Retail dive store located in Vancouver. Includes information on classes, travel, equipment, and rentals.

Contact information:

Phone: 360-546-1494
Fax: (360) 546-1495
Street Address:
6403 E Mill Plain Blvd.
Vancouver
Washington
United States
98661
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 10-00 till 17-00
Local time:  GMT - 8 Tijuana
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