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4.7 (39 reviews)
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Updated 2 months ago

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Sophia D.

I completed my Open Water certification dives through Aquatic Adventures. I registered as a referral student who hadn't been diving for almost 6 months, but Mike and Wendy were incredibly helpful and encouraging. Within minutes, I felt my diving confidence come back and I think that is because of their terrific coaching. In the shop, April and her team went out of their way to make sure I was set up and felt comfortable with my gear. Everything was clean and well-maintained. Overall, I was really pleased with my experience. I feel as though I walked away from the experience with more than just a certification but also a newfound confidence and appreciation for diving. Thank you, Aquatic Adventures!

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Anna N.

Getting our scuba certification this summer! Very exciting. With all the travel and different things the costs were getting high when we decided to make the jump to do the full certification. We chose to start with Aquatic Adventures close by to our house, and do the majority of the dives in Hawaii. Aquatic Adventures currently to me seems like a bait& switch. We were told over the phone $399 gets us the classes and first 2 dives (what we needed). Expensive, but I was still excited. We also were over the phone told that we would need to rent booties and fins (which we would need to try on prior to classes starting) and it would be an additional $35. We came tonight to try on the booties. Anna (helping us) immediately told us "oh you don't want to wear the rentals they are disgusting." She said that at least 5 times when trying to persuade us to buy booties. Oh, she actually tried to sell us, repeatedly the "student package" of fins, mask, snorkle, ect. Why are they renting items that are disgusting? We already have most of those items& we already felt like we were at the top of our price range so we asked her to price out the rentals. She could not. I don't know if she didn't want to or didn't know. We asked if they had the prices at the desk- we went to the desk where she started with "ok so you'll need to rent this $40 DVD and read these books which you need to buy".......... Just like an ever growing money pit. I really think that all of these things should be explained to a student when they are signing up for the class (Pete signed us up). ****update! Talked to the manager/owner Cheryl who was sorryish and completely blamed the employee for all the issues. As a manager myself, I would just like to point out, you hired and trained this person, blaming her makes you look bad. She didn't offer to do anything to fix any of the issues. I called three other dive shops every single one was drastically cheaper***

Matt Snyder, my dive instructor, during one of our advanced open water dives. So welcoming and helpful!

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2 months ago

Did the intro to scuba course. Had a great time. Fred was very helpful and patient. Excellent opportunity to test other scuba is for you.

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I had an amazing experience with Mel! She was incredibly helpful and made my day a lot easier.

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the instructors were very while knowledgeable, class instruct was thorough. good time

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Dedicated, ethical, caring and passionate team.

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I struggled a bit with skills and fear during the confined water dives and was really worried going into the open water dives.

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I stopped by this past weekend to look at some fins. Grace is very, very knowledgeable and she was…read moreable to answer all my questions and more. She pointed out the trade-offs between various types of fins and fin straps. I was surprised there was so much to consider when buying fins. She also pointed out some other things about scuba (not about fins) that were very helpful. I also had some questions about regulators. My concern was that the hose I used at the OBX felt too short and was almost about to come out of my mouth so I had to hold the regulator in my mouth or bite down hard on the mouthpiece. She answered questions about that as well as concerns I had about water leaking into the mask. She pointed out many things to consider. In short, Grace is very knowledgeable. She definitely knows what she is doing. I hope Diventures is paying her well because she deserves it.

I did my cert and bought all my dive gear at this shop when it was Nautilus. I loved Jason and…read moreMelissa's care they took in their training. I felt so prepared. Now that the shop is part of Diventures, I feel like it has become a community, as well. Diventures is a wonderful resource for trips and making new friends. I love all the events that they are having to bring divers together in the community. I'm doing a trip with another shop with Diventures and I appreciate that Willie is working with me and that shop to make sure that my trip is seamless. They take care of you here!

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Compass Dive & Sail is the best great place to get your scuba certification. The staff focus their…read moreentire course on getting students comfortable with skills, live scenarios of diving, safety, and swimming underwater. Amazing people who make the experience so memorable with their great personalities and unlike other companies who try to have large classes, Compass Dive & Sail want small classes so they can pass all their knowledge to students about scuba, the sciences of it, and marine life. They are very passionate about what they know with scuba and all facets to it would rather spend less time on the corporate blah and pass everything they know to prospective scuba candidates. The last thing I'll say is that they don't nickle and dime every little thing. Unlike many other dive companies, they are all inclusive from online training, pool skills, scuba gear and check out dives, camping and meals which happen at Lake Phoenix in Rawlings VA...which is an amazing place to practice open water skills or just dive! Only costs not paid for are transportation, wetsuit, fins and snorkel/mask.

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Aquatic Adventures - scuba - Updated May 2026

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