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Flag Divers' Discount Supply claims to be the largest dedicated dive retailer in Southern California and Las Vegas. Diving leaders are in each store to answer your technical questions and offer advice. All of their stores offer showrooms and selection with guaranteed everyday value pricing. They offer 150% credit, if you find an item for less elsewhere, including their own stores, within a month of purchasing any item. They offer you the same friendly service and price guarantees on many items in their on-line catalog, via their convenient in-home shopping program.


Flag Anacapa Dive Center is a full-service PADI 5 star and NAUI pro facility located in Santa Barbara, California. They can provide you with training, information and equipment to dive locally and anywhere in the world.


Flag Anacapa Dive Center is a full-service dive facility based in Santa Barbara, California. They charter dives to the local channel islands as well as exotic dive locations around the world. Services include a full-service repair facility, rental department and an onsite pool for training.


Flag Bottom Scratcher Liveaboard is a 63-foot liveaboard based in Long Beach, California, that specializes in the beautiful California Channel Islands. Rates are all-inclusive, including great homecooked meals, airfills to 3700 PSI, tanks and weights. The vessel features many new upgrades and backup systems, and has been worked by the same crew for since the early '90s. who care about your fun, safety and comfort.


Flag Bottom Time Scuba


Flag Catalina Scuba Luv is a PADI 5 Star IDC Dive Center and Resort located on Catalina Island off the coast of Southern California. They are the largest operation on the island, open everyday all year long. They arrange dive packages to the island offering 2 or 3 tank boat dives. They offer retail sales, rentals, photo rentals, snorkeling tours by shore or boat, specialty dives such as eel feeding or shark diving, and diver training from introduction dives to scuba instructors. Check out their dive packages, courses and other activities.


Flag Crescent Dive Training of Culver City, California, provides scuba instruction at all levels. Their site offers info about scuba, descriptions of the classes and experiences we offer and a wealth of tools for the scuba diver in our students section.


Flag Dive Charters of Long Beach, California, owns The Sand Dollar and offers many two- and three-day dive trips to choose from all year long. The company wants you to take advantage of the 'Best Kept Secret in Diving' and enjoy the beauty of California's best diving, on the best dive trips in Southern California. Air conditioned, On Board EAN-Nitrox, and a 25 year reputation of quality multi-day dive trips, make the Sand Dollar a smart choice. Tanks and weights are supplied and all meals included.


Flag Dive N' Surf , with three locations in Southern California, has expanded into many areas since its origins as a diveing retail store in 1953. They now offer a full line of diving equipment, scuba diving classes, surfboards, surfing equipment, beach apparel and fashions, and of course, the Body Glove Wetsuit, which was created by the Meistrell brothers. Dive N' Surf has expanded to three California locations, including Redondo Beach, Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, and Dana Point to serve all of your diving, surfing, water sport and related clothing needs.


Flag DiveQuest Charters offers small group dive excursions from San Diego, California. Their modern, high-speed, custom-built dive vessel and an experienced and very helpful crew caters to smaller groups. Divequest travels to all San Diego areas. as well as Coronado Islands in Mexico and San Clemente Island.


Flag Dolphin Dive Center is a PADI 5-star Instructor Development Center and retail store located in the Arcadia/Pasadena area of Southern California. They offer all courses through Instructor level, as well as major-brand equipment sales, rentals, service and repairs, local boat trips, worldwide dive travel and a 20-year-old active dive club.


Flag Double D Divers of Seal Beach, California, offers personal and conscientious scuba instruction. Classes are kept to four students, maximum, yet courses remain competitively priced.


Flag Great Escape Dive Charters runs single and multi-day liveaboard dive trips to all Southern Californa destinations, including Catalina, San Clemente, San Nicholas, Santa Barbara, the Northern Channel Islands, Begg Rock, Cortes, Tanner and Farnswoth Banks.


Flag HydroDiver a is 35' sportfisher customized for diving and based in San Diego. With a flexible schedule, the owners specialize in personalized dive trips for small groups, doing Wreck Alley, kelp bed and night dives. With a minimum 2 divers, maximum 6 divers the cost per diver is $60 for a two dive half day trip. Tanks weight belts, soft drinks, munchies and a hot shower are included. The HydroDiver is berthed at Sea World Marina in San Diego's Mission Bay.


Flag Keep Bubblin' of Ventura, California, offers an online catalog filled with a complete line of high-quality scuba diving equipment, all at low, discount prices.


Flag Liburdi's Scuba Center Liburdi's Scuba Center is a PADI 5-star certification center in Irvine, California. In addition to their range of dive courses, they arrange dive travel and run the Most Excellent Dive Club. They claim that their shop is one of the best Underwater Photography centers in Southern California.


Flag Lois Ann Diving Charters of San Diego, California pride themselves in being friendly and making your day of diving fun. Two years in a row, 1994 and 1995, the Lois Ann was voted the #2 Best Day Boat Operation in the USA by readers of Rodale's Scuba Diving Magazine. Scuba Dive at Point Loma and the La Jolla Kelp Beds with lots of reefs, teaming with wild life. Dive the Wreck Alley, where the Ruby E and El Rey are popular dive sites. Also visit the Los Coronado Islands of Mexico.


Flag Pacific Scuba Center is a PADI 5-Star Dive Center located in Channel Islands Harbor, Oxnard, California. Their specialty is providing friendly, quality service and convenient, quality instruction. You'll get lots of personal attention in their small classes, and their carefully selected PADI Instructors provide fun will following strict training standards. The Center runs the P.O.D. Diving Club, where you'll meet other divers and stay active in scuba.


Flag Pacific Scuba Center of Ventura, California is a PADI 5 Star Training facility, offering instruction from the beginner level through Instructor Specialty training. They have a full service retail shop and many tropical and local trips planned.


Flag Peace provides world-class diving experiences off of California's magnificent Channel Islands, from San Nicholas and San Clemente in the south to San Miguel and all the islands in between. Come aboard the 'Peace' for a multi-day liveaboard or single-day scuba adventures in comfort, convenience and safety.


Flag Progressive Diving Institute , based in Santa Barbara, California, specializes in services and instruction for divers of all levels and interests. Our professional instruction team can certify you from Open Water Diver to Instructor, including Nitrox and Rebreathers. If you have an interest in diving, they can show you how to get most out of it.


Flag San Diego Diving Locker offers free local marine life information, free snorkeling and dive maps, snorkel and scuba rentals, boat trips and private tours, and a wide selection of equipment and accessories. Private and group classes are available.


Flag San Diego Shark Diving Expeditions: Your expedition leader puts on his chainmail suit and escorts each diver, one by one, into the cage. There will be one steel suited Leader in front of the cage, baiting the sharks up to your cameras. Sharks will bite the bait, the Leader, and the cage. You can use your own cameras or rent still and video cameras from us. Try not to shoot all your film in the first couple of minutes; you'll be in the cage 30 to 40 minutes each turn. They've got the sharks if you've got the nerve!


Flag Sand Dollar does single and multi-day trips to the California Channel Islands. The 65' liveabord sleeps 29 divers and trips can last up to 5 days. Catalina is a favorite diving destination, as is Santa Barbara (lots of sealions) and San Clemente (purple coral gardens).


Flag Scuba Schools of America of Montclair, California, provides all you need in a professional dive store, including instruction, equipment rentals and repairs, technical diving, local and international dive adventures, a 2500-member dive club, and more.


Flag ScubaCrossing offers private/semi private scuba lessons in San Diego, California., allowing for personalized attention and ease of scheduling around students' busy days. ScubaCrossing's site also has scuba quizzes for you to play, scuba toons for your web pages, plus links.


Flag Sea Divers are a non-profit recreational dive club based in Redondo Beach, California. They schedule 12+ boat dives a year on two of the best SoCal dive boats, the Great Escape and Peace dive boats. They offer these dive trips at a great price with extra value. Their boat dives include food and air fills, almost always make a minimum of 4 dives, are limited to 28 scuba divers, and they reserve bunks/staterooms for our members.


Flag Sea Stallion Scuba Outfitters is a full-service dive shop located in Irvine, California. They are an SSI Platinum Pro facility offers a full range of dive training. They also sell and service a wide variety of scuba equipment. They specialize in Channel Islands and seasonal international diving trips.


Flag Seaclypse Dive Adventures is a San Diego, California-based dive operator providing PADI dive instruction through Divemaster, underwater tours, boat dives, and intro dives, specializing in small groups and fun!


Flag Second Stage is a 42' Sport Fisher based in Long Beach, California and custom equipped for the diving enthusiast. The operators offer six-passenger, half-day and multi-day excursions to all of the local Southern California Channel Islands. Leave the crowds of the larger, slower boats behind and enjoy diving the way you want with your friends.


Flag Splash Dive Company: Splash into SCUBA with top quality dive equipment for purchase and rental, with convenient class schedules as well as local and exotic dive trips. Their full service PADI Dive Center in Venice, California highlights ecologically responsible diving, non-threatening instruction and a two week basic certification program that assures you the competence and confidence to explore the underwater world. Catalina boat trips, night, wreck, kayak, beach diving and specialty courses are all readily available.


Flag Sport Chalet is a leading operator of full service specialty sporting goods superstores in Southern California. Each shop is staffed by well trained, knowledgeable sales associates with extensive experience in the products they sell. Sport Chalet Divers in conjunction with NAUI International is proud to offer one of the oldest most professional total dive training programs in the country. Check out their site for store locations, new product announcements, monthly specials, notice of events and demonstrations of special equipment, equipment rentals and repairs. training and course information, boat schedules, Sport Chalet Diving Clubs, and dive travel.


Flag TakeMeToo is the exclusive dive travel service for the "Spectre", "Liberty" and "Peace" vessels that explore Southern California's Channel Islands. They book the trips nd provide complete rental gear, with delivery. Ventura Harbor hotel ccommodations are also available.


Flag Truth Aquatics of Santa Barbara, California, has three of the finest dive boats found anywhere in the world. Their vessels, Truth, Conception, and Vision were designed and custom built specifically designed for divers, and this fleet runs year 'round to California's Channel Islands on one-to-five day excursions. These islands offer some of the most magnificent and picturesque diving found anywhere; you'll swim through giant kelp forests, encounter friendly sea lions and explore walls and pinnacles covered with anemone in a rainbow of colors.


Flag Vision Grove Expressions , based in Los Angeles, California, offers a series of specialty workshops designed to expand your joy, fun and comfort in the water. These programs are held in the lusccious waters of Baja, Mexico; Kona, Hawaii; and Southern California.


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