Cape Cod Dive shop

[ckjacques53198]

I'm moving from Fairhaven to Falmouth, Mass. within the next couple of months and wanted some advice on where I should get my OW Cert. I don't know any divers in the area that could recommend one LDS over another. There seem to be a handful on cape cod. Cape Cod Diver Locker and Cape Cod Sea Sports located in Hyannis that offer SSI certification. Also there is Aqua Center in Sandwich. Can anyone help me out?

 

[lisa_j]

Hi CK -
I have visited both shops, Dive Locker and Sea Sports, and bought a lot of gear from Sea Sports. I have had great experiences with both, in terms of being an LDS. I have called Aqua Center a few times but I've never reached anyone there.
As far as certifications go, you'll find on the board here that it's the instructors that make the difference, so why don't you visit all three shops one day and see who you 'click' with the best? Both Dive Locker and Sea Sports are very different, and one might fit your needs better than the other.
Besides, I think it's fun to just go and hang out in a dive shop for a few hours chatting about what we love!!
You'll really enjoy diving here on the Cape! Good luck!

 

[Scubar]

Mike at the Dive Locker is great. My suggestion..

 

[PFF]

As a point of interest, I sent an individualized email to several of the dive shops on the Cape about 4 months ago. Asking them about diving on the Cape and what services each shop offered in the way of equipment and classes. This was before I heard about SB to pose some of the questions.

Only two shops responded. Mike was the only one to write a personal response congratulating my wife and I getting certified in July. I have been to his shop several times and the team he has there is very helpful. That has been my experience with his shop.

It is probably best to take some time and go visit each shop and see how you feel and interact with each LDS. In the end from an instructional perspective, it is not the LDS that makes learning fun and enjoyable but your individual instructor.

 

[ckjacques53198]

I visited the Dive Locker yesterday just to look around and get a brochure about the certification. There was a guy in there that was very friendly considering it was sunday about an hour til closing and the Patriots game was on. I didn't get his name though. It was also a plus for me that he was open on a Sunday where Cape Cod Sea Sports wasn't.

 

[SadiesMom]

I'm moving from Fairhaven to Falmouth, Mass. within the next couple of months and wanted some advice on where I should get my OW Cert. I don't know any divers in the area that could recommend one LDS over another. There seem to be a handful on cape cod. Cape Cod Diver Locker and Cape Cod Sea Sports located in Hyannis that offer SSI certification. Also there is Aqua Center in Sandwich. Can anyone help me out?

Just sent you a PM....

 

[ProfessorAronnax]

I been using Cape Cod Sea Sports for about 10 years. It's an established family business with excellent instructors. Their shop is half diving and half ocean kayaks(which I bought for kayak diving) Dive Locker I'm not too familiar with(except their building has been a few different dive shops over the years) I stopped in Aqua Sports over the summer, talked to the owner and really liked the store/people. They do a lobster hunting contest during the summer, and it's a great place to get diving info for the Sandwich area(which is important due to 7 knot current generated by the Canal).

Hope this helps. By the way, good move!

 

[Diesel298]

divers market in Plymouth ive delt with them a few times.. always a pleasant experence.
and people who have gotten training there all say good things

 

[PeaceDog]

The Dive Locker rules. Mike is a good guy, runs a great shop and sells you what you need, not what he thinks you should.

 

[SadiesMom]

Already PM'd you, but I can highly recommend Chris Ranney at Cape Cod Sea Sports as a superb instructor...Chris Olsen is also fabulous. I wouldn't hesitate for a second to recommend either one of them to any of my family or friends who wanted to learn to dive and feel extremely comfortable doing so. I've dived with both of them as buddies and known them for several years and they're both extremely safety conscious (Chris O is a public safety diver, paramedic and Deputy Fire Chief in Barnstable), patient, friendly, funny, great divers and wonderful guys. Between them, they've trained a great many of the public safety divers and firefighter/police recreational divers on the Cape (plus a whole lot of "regular folks" too ).