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Ultimate Scuba Adventures

Dive Shops (English)

Service:
  • Air
  • DAN
  • Equipment Gear Rentals
  • Gear Equipment Servicing
  • Liveaboard Diving
  • NITROX
  • PADI
  • School Course Learn to Dive
  • TDI
  • TRIMIX
  • Technical Diving
  • Underwater Photography/Video
  • Underwater Publications Prints
  • Vacation Holiday Scuba Diving
  • Wreck Diving
Authorized Dealer of:
  • Aqualung / U.S. Divers
  • Atomic Aquatics
  • DUI
  • Mares
  • OMS
  • Poseidon
  • Sherwood
Company description Ultimate Scuba is all about going back to basics. We promise to take all our students wherever they want to go--from beginner to teaching professional. We are all about our love of scuba diving, and consider Ultimate Scuba Adventures to be an all inclusive shop. Wherever you are from, and whatever your skill level, we are pleased to share and teach the thrill of diving with you and your friends. There`s no pretenses at Ultimate Scuba Adventures. Our professional management and staff are dedicated to your safety, your education and of course your fun!
I grew up in a little desert town in rural South Africa . At age 11 we moved to Cape Town , the big city on the ocean. Here my love affair with the ocean began. By 14 I was a seasoned abalone & crayfish diver. After a 2 year stint in the South African Marine Corps, I really started diving seriously. My weekly wages of $24.00 as an apprentice toolmaker didn`t go very far. Diving became a second job to supplement my income. Apart from selling my quota of abalone & crayfish, I was becoming quite an adept spearfisherman. All this was done while breathhold diving. To this day, South African Law prohibits any gathering on scuba. However, I did start diving on scuba because I was making enough money to buy the gear, which consisted of a tank, backpack (no BC) and double hose regulator. My first and only lesson at the time was being told, ``never hold your breath when scuba diving``. On some weekends we would head to the Royal Cape Yacht Club where we would clean the bottoms of racing boats to make a couple extra bucks. Other weekends we would head to various wreckdiving sites around the Cape .
My second love sailing developed in South Africa as well. My friend & brother in arms, Johan Van Rooyen built a sailboat called Black Pepper (a Douglas Peterson design.) This design, a Peterson 33, won the World 1/4 ton Championship in 1976. My last five years in South Africa were the greatest. We scuba dived, free dived and sailed all over the Southern Oceans. Learning to dive the sometimes fierce conditions around the Cape was a great growing up process for me.
In 1981 curiosity about America got the better of me. On February 28, 1981 I landed at JFK Airport in New York with 2 suitcases in hand. I made my way to Swarthmore. There I stayed in a house on the campus with a South African friend`s mother Gisele and her partner Dean. They took me into their home and treated me like family. I owe a special thanks to them. Here I also met my wife, Judy. We moved around the area while I was working in various machine shops in the Tri-State area. Our son Christopher was born in October of 1982 and our daughter Andrea in April of 1988. My professional life took a major turn for the better in 1988 when, with the help of one of my current customers, I started my own machine shop called Ultimate Screw Machine Products. Being fairly successful right off the bat, I started to yearn for a new challenge. I tried golf, but being rotten at it, I turned again to my first love--the ocean.
Both Judy & I were certified by a local dive shop. Judy continued on to become a Divemaster while I continued on to Instructor. By now we traveled all over the Caribbean on dive trips with Chris (who was my first certification) and Andrea (an avid snorkeler.)
In 1996 we started Ultimate Scuba as an instructional facility using the pool at Garnet Valley Middle School run by the Rocky Run YMCA. When the local dive store closed in 1997, we were very fortunate to inherit a core group of great people, divers & professionals. With encouragement and help from a lot of good people, I decided to take the plunge into the retail business.
Ultimate Scuba Adventures offers a selection of top of the line scuba gear like Mares, Sherwood, DUI, Henderson , and others. We also offer a boat diving schedule for those divers who like to dive off the Jersey coast. Upcoming Caribbean trips include Bonaire, Cozumel , and more.
Location description: Come visit the Ultimate Scuba Dive Center, a full service Dive Store with classroom, repair, rental, and fill station facilities conveniently located at 637 West Baltimore Pike, Media, PA.
It`s another exciting wreck diving season! Dust off all your gear! Those big lobsters that ``got away`` grew another inch and the Tog we missed and messed up a spear tip are a couple pounds heavier and hopefully a little slower - yeah...keep on dreaming. Last year we were diving with the Miss Atlantic City and the Gypsy Blood.
Upcoming Trips:
*Palau, Micronesia.
Inquisitive sharks. Intriguing mantas. Incredible kaleidoscopic coral. Inconceivable giant clams. Some six hundred miles east of the Philippines drifts a remote tropical strand of 343 islands known as Palau (Belau). With it`s abundant reef and unrivaled drift and wall dives, Palau has rightly been praised as one of the ``Worlds Seven Underwater Wonders``
*ROATAN - BAY ISLANDS - HONDURAS:
Come help us explore this exotic island paradise and underwater wonder located on the second largest barrier reef in the world. Roatan, the crown jewel of all the Bay Islands, 30 miles from mainland Honduras will not disappoint you. We will be staying at the Fantasy Island Beach Resort located on a private key on the south side of Roatan. Enjoy the white sand beaches or a shore dive a few steps from your room.
*Join us on our annual trek to dive the historic shipwrecks of Kingston. The trip also coincides with the annual Kingston Street festival.
*Come join us on our summer trek to the unique island of Bonaire located 40 miles off the coast of Venezuela. The reason Bonaire is also known as the “Home of Diving Freedom” is the spectacular shore diving. Jump in your vehicle, pick up your tanks at the “Drive Thru” and explore any of the 80 well marked shore diving sites at your leisure.
Places We`ve Seen.... Galapagos Islands, Palau, Micronesia,Tahiti, Roatan, Honduras, Saba, Cozumel, Mexico, Bonaire, Dutch West Indies, Dominica, French West indies , Gran Cayman Island, Cayman Brac, Belize, Kingston, Ontario.

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Media based dive facility offering PADI and TDI instruction, equipment sales and service.

Contact information:

Phone: 610-565-3483
Fax: 610-566-4148
Street Address:
637 West Baltimore Pike
Media
Pennsylvania
United States
19063
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 12-00 till 20-00
Local time:  GMT - 8 Tijuana
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