Above 'N' Below Scuba Services , located on the St. Lawrence River, near Brockville, Ontario, Canada and just minutes from New York State, offers some of the best fresh water scuba diving in the world. They provide scuba experiences for beginner to advanced divers on many of the river's premier wrecks. For those qualified to do so, a night dive on the Keystorm (wreck) is a perfect example of an exciting dive you could enjoy while visiting us.
Advanced/Tech Diving Instruction specializes in Nitrox and Deep Air courses including Technical, in the Southern Ontario area. Their site includes course overviews and full course outlines, requirements and instructor profile. There is also a section on Favourite Great Lakes Shipwrecks including history, discovery,present condition and photographs as well as a link page.
Ajax Scuba Club is a "not for profit" organization made up of local recreational divers in the Durham area, east of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This 26-year-old club has more than 100 members and provides dive training suitable for all skill levels. They organize supervised diving events, including shore diving, charter boat diving and dive trips outside Ontario. Members have access to one of the most comprehensive dive schedules in southern Ontario.
Aqua Knights of Hamilton of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada is a family-oriented dive club that organizes diving and camping weekends during the summer months and a trip to Caribbean in March. They train to stringent A.C.U.C. (American and Canadian Underwater Certification) criteria and are members of the O.U.C. (Ontario Underwater Council). Their site details the scuba courses and social events they offer.
Aqua Systems has been in existence since 1963 and now has four scuba shops in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They offer sales, service and training, as well as commercial services, film industry coordination and coast guard training facilities.
Aquarius Scuba Diving Centre of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, offers scuba diving instruction at all levels, as well as sales and servicing of all brand name equipment. International and local dive trips are organized year-round.
Aquatic Adventure Tours is owned by Thom & Leisa Hirtz of Toronto, Canada, who have developed a diverse repertoire of destinations that that combine underwater fun with other activities and local cultural experiences. Their many packages and customized itineraries are designed to meet the specific requests and qualifications of any diver at all levels of experience.
Big Jim's Dive Charters provides charters to the many shipwrecks in the Kingston, Ontario, Canada area. Big Jim is a licensed Captain, a PADI Divemaster, a DAN Oxygen Provider and Advanced Marine First Aid certified with over 10 years experience in diving.
Burton's Dive Service a NAUI Pro Platinum facility, has been serving Ottawa and the Eastern Ontario/St. Lawrence, region of Canada since 1987. Sam Burton has been in the diving business for over 40 years, and offers a wealth of knowledge and experience. Burton's has endeavored to ensure their staff are well informed about all aspects of the store and the products they sell. Their complete line of the best equipment on the market today gives them confidence in helping you make the right choice for your individual needs. They offer quality NAUI scuba training from beginner to leadership levels, as well as reasonable rental rates, and professional equipment service and maintenance.
Canadian Scuba Academy is a small company that specializes exclusively in quality scuba education. Founded by two highly experienced Instructors, you benefit from their vast knowledge training, equipment sales and repair, and dive travel.
Colt Creek Diving is a full-service PADI dive center in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, offering PADI, IANTD, ANDI, and DAN training, as well as gear sales, rentals and service.
Dive Into The Net is a comprehensive map-based scuba diving database for the province of Ontario, Canada. The site allows you to geographically search for diving destinations and appropriate support services. Expansion of the site to encompass the rest of Canada is being planned.
Gary Thibault has a page on diving and sites in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Gary's site includes: A short history of the City of Kingston and the reasons behind it's many shipwrecks; P.O.W. -- an organization dedicated to the preservation of Kingstons historic shipwrecks; Information on diving in the Kingston area -- what to bring, list of dive stores, accommodations, restaurants, shipwrecks,and other sites to see.
HADA -- Hamilton Area Divers Association mainly serves the area of the "Golden Horseshoe" of Lake Ontario, Canada and is a group of Divers that just love to dive. Their goal is to provide an association where members can find a dive buddy anywhere, anytime. They are not affiliated with any certification agency or dive shop, they just want to dive, and have a great time doing it.
Happy Divers Den , located just minutes north of Toronto airport in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, the empahsis is on safety and fun. With 3 PADI Master Instructors and 5 SSI Dive Control Specialists, you're guaranteed a full range of courses, from basic Open Water through Instructor training.
High Park Scuba Club of Toronto, Ontario, Canada is on a mission to dive safely, have fun and provide club members with the very best scuba training, diving environment ,deals on scuba equpiment and the best value and most exciting and affordable dive excursions in both local and exotic destinations. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned dive master, you'll find enrichment and excitement with their club.
Kanata Diving Supply is a five-star PADI IDC facility serving the Eastern Ontario, Canada region. A wide range of manufactures and an extensive of PADI courses are available. Kanata Dive Supply also offers the 'Discover SCUBA' program for people who would like to try scuba for free.
Knot-A-Wake Dive Charters of Toronto/Rock Port, Ontario, Canada,invites you to come and discover Canadian and American heritage on the St. Lawrence River. Knot-a-Wake Dive charters can accommodate up to 30 divers for a weekend or week day and prides itself by having highly trained diving professionals available for whatever your needs may be.
Neptune's Divers offer dive charters around Long Point Bay, Ontario on Lake Erie. The 'MOONBEAM' is a 44 foot motor yacht which does daily and live aboard charters on the calm water of Long Point Bay.They also offer a used equipment forum that is Free to post any scuba equipment you have for sale.
Niagara Divers' Association (NDA) was founded in 1988 and has currently about 50 members from around the Niagara Region (Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada). They have one of the most ambitious dive schedules in Ontario. Just about every weekend from Mid-May to the end of September they're somewhere in the Southern Great Lakes. They cater to all levels of divers, and one of the very few clubs that offer challenging diving to even the most advanced of divers.
North Bay Scuba Club of North Bay, Ontario, Canada, encourages interest in all activities associated with the underwater world, including scuba diving, underwater photography, archaeology and ecological studies, etc. The club holds monthly meetings, publishes a monthly newsletter, arranges weekly summer dives and organized warm water trips.
Northern Tech Diver provides info on technical diving in the Ontario, Canada's St. Lawrence River and lower Lake Ontario, including gear rigging, advice and reviews of local wrecks.
On The Bottom is a "not for profit" club for divers located in the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada area. The club does mostly Wednesday dives, as well as the occasional weekend dive, including shore diving and charter boat diving. For members, there's access to local dive shop schedules, and group events.
Ontario Dive Log that is based on his diving experiences diving around Ontario, and covers some of the highlights, based on his logbook entries.
Ontario SCUBA Diving page provides an overview of Ontario, Canada diving, information on a local club, and other WWW links.
Ontario Scuba Diving is maintained by Tom Wilson of Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, and features dive locations throughout the province, mostly wreck sites ranging in depth from 11 to 190 feet. Pictures are used to illustrate the features of most locations. Lakes represented include Ontario, Erie, Huron, Simcoe, and the St. Lawrence seaway.
Ontario Scuba Supply of Belleville, Ontario, Canada, offers a "jump-point" for divers who are looking to dive in South Eastern Ontario.
Ontario Scuba Training of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, offers NAUI training right up to the Instructor level. Their site also provides information on diving around Ontario.
Ontario Underwater Council provides administrative services and diving-related programs which meet the needs of the Ontario sport diving community and related businesses and associations.
Ontario Underwater Council provides administrative services and diving-related programs which meet the needs of the Ontario sport diving community and related businesses and associations.
Ontario Underwater Explorers (OUE) is a Toronto, Ontario, Canada-based SCUBA club involved in diving, training, and any and all other aspects of life underwater. The Diving Club dives run all over Ontario, with Tobermory and Kingston being popular spots. In keeping with the 'Explorers' part of the club name, we try to get out to new and different spots that we haven't tried before. Diving to look at shipwrecks is the most popular phase of the sport in Ontario. We go diving year around, even when we need a chainsaw to get at our favorite dive spots through the ice.
Ontario, Canada Diving from diving in other parts of the world are its fresh water, its #@*% cold, and there are a lot of very well-preserved shipwrecks, as a result of those other two factors. Under cold, freshwater conditions, the rusting and marine life growth that eventually claim shipwrecks aren't present to anywhere near the same extent. The amount of underwater life in Ontario's lakes and rivers is minimal compared to any halfway-respectable tropical reef. Also, the salt that speeds corrosion isn't here.
R&AY'S Dive Charters operates on Lake Erie out of Port Colbourne, Ontario, Canada. Charter services cover much of Eastern Lake Erie. Dives available for all skill levels, with some very nice wrecks.
Scuba 2000 has grown from a little corner store to become the largest dive centre in Eastern Canada, they claim. Their dive team membership is over 2000; their leadership team numbers 25, with 3 Master Instructers, 4 Master Scuba Diver Trainers, 2 Course Directors, 7 Open Water Instructors and over 15 Divemasters. They publish a bi-monthly magazine called the Wet Gazette.
Scuba Diving With Diesel is maintained by a husband and wife team who love diving and underwater life! They have reports on southern Ontario dive sites, including Niagara River, Lake Ontario, Chippawa Creek and more. There is also some usefull travel info, links to other diving pages and local dive shops.
Steel City Sport Divers is an active diving club based in the Hamilton, Ontario, Canada area. They run about ten organized diving events each year. On most weekends and weekdays, from early spring to late fall, casual groups of club divers are hunting for new club dive sites, or browsing the old ones. Training programs are a focal point of club activities, with two long basic courses held each winter and advanced courses of various kinds held regularly. All Steel City members must be ACUS certified.
Tobermory Adventure Tours of Tobermory, Ontario, Canada, utilizes the "Dawnlight" a 72' historical tug, totally refurbished to comfortably carry 2-12 divers to liveaboards on Georgian Bay and Lake Huron. Your group can also be accommodated at the Wireless Bay Cottages right on Tobermory Harbour.
Toronto Super Turtles is a not-for-profit scuba club that has been providing training and dive trips for more than 20 years. Members enjoy a full dive schedule year-round and enjoy a superior reputation as a well-skilled and safe group of divers among all charter operators. They offer dives for all levels and PADI instruction for all certifications and specialties.
Waterline Sports of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, maintains a site with info on their scuba training courses, travel opportunities, recreational diving, new products and mail-order service. There's also a What's New section and Internet-only specials.
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