Recommend tech-friendly dive shop in Reno NV? (or Vegas)

[lv2dive]

I’ve got a friend who lives in Reno, and she is getting OW certified. She is a young professional with the means to support a diving addiction and I fully expect she will be diving often and moving into tech eventually (I’m mentoring her - she’s not going to go too far too fast).

Given that background, do any of you know of any tech-friendly shops in the area? She has had some challenges with what I would consider basics- finding paddle fins, for example. I believe it’s important to have a LDS and would like to point her in the direction of a shop that isn’t going to try and steer her away from a bp/w or towards split fins.

Also - her parents live in Vegas, where I also happen to visit often <g>, so any recommendations for tech-friendly shops there would be appreciated as well!

Thanks in advance!!!

 

[diversteve]

Not in either location but Joel Silverstein runs Tech Diving Limited out of Lake Havasu further south along the Colorado River. They have a sister company that trains/dives. https://www.techdivinglimited.com/

I'm pretty sure they get up to Lake Mead near Vegas regularly since they're one of two shops that were/are? permitted to dive the B29 (although that may have stopped recently).

Also it's probably the deepest local water - we've had a drought for at least a decade.

 

[lv2dive]

Thanks @diversteve! Anyone with any experience with tech-friendly shops in those locations, esp. Reno?