Divers Academy is a complete waste! I just graduated from there a few months ago. To start, the admissions process is a joke because as long as you send them a $125 check, you're accepted. The first month of school you dont even see the water, an instructor who is not even a commercial diver teaches you things you'll never need in diving (except for knots). After your first month is when the 30,000 dollar circus begins. The military veteran instructors are the best you could ask for, as for the other instructors they fill your head with garbage about the "industry". Underwater welding is literally just teaching yourself how to run a bead on a plate, then show the instructor and he gives you a thumbs up even tho it looks like a monkey just did it. You get "graded" on your weld plates, 85% of my classmates were never asked for their test plates and somehow received the same grade on it. Putting together bolt on flanges were also test scores, I didn't do any of them and still got a 90 on every one, but sometimes if you did do them they would somehow LOSE your score, that happened to a few classmates of mine. And good luck finding bolts and wrenches, with all the money the school makes, it doesn't get used for whats needed. Cheating on tests is accepted. Students stealing thousands of dollars worth of classmates equipment is never taken care of even if the thief is caught red handed, no police called or anything. It happened to me personally, 100 dollars out of my wallet. When you're diving you just walk around underwater, there's no tasks to complete, the pneumatic tools were never even spoken of while I was there even though they have them to use. As for the facility, it's decent, the bathroom is destroyed and has never been fixed, microwaves in the lunch area don't work, the classrooms are big enough though. You buy equipment from the school marked up 200%+, and you're not required to buy it there but they use your ignorance against you and pretty much shove it down your throat and if you bring your own gear they give you a hard time about it. The classes don't mean jack, you sit there and watch slideshows as an instructor reads them, you dont learn much other then what the instructor is reading. Job placement is non existent, you dont learn how to write a resume, I figured it out on my own and handed it in for a grade, after that I never heard another thing about it. The curriculum is just a bunch of bs. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but this is the exact experience I had at this school, I read bad reviews before I went but didn't heed the advice and still went, and regret every dime spent. I'm sure you'll have the same experience as I and every student I met there had. GO SOMEWHERE ELSE to become a commercial diver, Divers Academy will only bring you down not build you up. I would give less then a star if I could. Hope this review helps. read more