Scuba Diving Courses

Scuba Diving Courses

Dan’s Dive Shop has been sharing the thrill and adventure in our Scuba Diving Courses and Education for over 50 years, offering a higher quality program with more time, more diving, superior scuba equipment and skills.

In addition to our Award Winning Scuba Training, we also offer local and exotic trips to the most incredible diving places, exciting local events and activities and the largest selection of scuba and snorkelling gear in the country.

Dan’s is the countries leading innovator of diver education.  We have set the modern trends and have lead the dive industry towards better diving skills and techniques that allow for a higher level of understanding, experience, philosophy and evolution in scuba dive training from recreational scuba courses through into cave diving courses and technical diving courses.

Dan’s isn’t just your local dive shop, we train students from all over not just Niagara Region, but all over Canada, the United States and different countries who visit us, fly or drive out to them to give them the scuba diving education they deserve.

If you’re looking for the best offerings for training and equipment, we’re the most logical choice at Dan’s.

MOBILE TRAINING –  WILLING TO TEACH AND TRAVEL ANYWHERE YOU WANT US.

There’s a lot more to scuba than just breathing underwater and we’re here to share the fun and learning, as well as help you overcome challenges and live the excitement of scuba diving.

As Canada’s Oldest PADI Scuba School, we are a PADI 5 Star IDC Facility offering all PADI Courses, from Beginner classes like the PADI Open Water Diver Course, Advanced, Specialties, Professional Divemaster to Instructor Development and everywhere in between. 

We believe in offering the most fun and exciting classes at all levels

For divers who want more of a challenge we specialize in the finest Cave, Technical Diving and Rebreather Courses.

DIVE DIFFERENT

Our training approach and extensive experience continues to pave the way in diving, utilizing the most modern philosophies and trends in the industry.  We believe in utilizing the newest technology and equipment to eclipse the facilities teaching outdated techniques in a less modular and more complicated configuration.

DIVE BETTER

We teach all courses with zero impact to the bottom, meaning you’re taught how to properly descend and ascend horizontally without damaging the environment.

No Kneeling. Kneeling is  a very bad habit that causes damage to the fragile aquatic life and impacts the visibility.

We streamline your body, your equipment in a way allows you to complete your skills perfectly horizontal. We believe in proper airway control and weighting you neutral keeping you off the bottom.

We teach you fin techniques to allow for efficiency and environmental a modified frog kick, modified flutter and a full frog kick right in the open water course, as well as how to turn and back fining, so you never have to use your hands to skull or flail like the majority of the diving community does, you’ll never need to push off the fragile shipwreck, delicate coral reef or millions of years old fragile cenote.

DIVE RIGHT

Whether you are a new diver or a seasoned diver looking for more challenges or control in your diving, we offer the best dive training from the most experienced and accomplished scuba divers in the country.

We offer you the best selection and pricing on scuba diving equipment from all the best scuba diving brands.

We Take You diving offering both local diving trips, exotic dive travel, weekly local dives and more.

HAVE FUN UNDERWATER

By diving smarter, not harder, you’re going to have a lot more fun underwater.

You won’t be struggling to maintain proper buoyancy, trim or position and instead will have more breathing gas to explore.

Your tanks will last you longer with the right fin kicks and not flailing your hands and legs all over the place.

You’ll look better in pictures and videos than the majority of the divers around the world too, which is a great feeling when you can outperform Divemasters and Instructors.

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

Diving is the most amazing sport in the world, but you need to keep active, maintain your skills, continue the learning and personal development and engage in the most amazing lifetime sport.

You can dive anywhere, any time with the right skills, techniques and equipment.

SMALL GROUPS & PERSONAL ATTENTION TO DETAIL

Have you ever felt like an activity was moving along too quickly or that you didn’t feel as though you had time to absorb the material or ask questions?  This is common in the sport of scuba diving where many dive stores overbook their classes because they believe discounting and sheer volume are the way to get people into the sport.

At DDS, we believe in small groups with our weekend classes being capped at a maximum of 6 participants with 2 staff members offering a 1:3 ratio.

This means we can move at a reasonable pace, while spending more time making you a good, solid, proficient diver, rather than herding you towards the next level of your open waters.

This semi-private instruction doesn’t really cost that much more than what the other shops are charging, yet gives you so much more value, confidence and awareness.

Cheaper courses are never better, especially comparing price vs quality.

No other store has the experience, or the personal commitment to delivering high quality training and service like Dan’s.