some thing good about Scuba Sciences Inc.

[diversteve]

My rather simplistic rational is I figure it doesn't need to be any more convientient to get to an LDS than it is to get to a Walmart except in areas with lots of local diving. If you have more LDSs than that then they are just stepping on each others livelyhood. It's like having too many predators and not enough prey. Some of them need to die to keep things in balance. However, in the case of Phoenix, an expansion of the prey population will also work.

Two things to factor into your analysis:

1. Phoenix is one of the most spread out metropolises in the country. So the geographic dispersion of the LDS's -with one exception that I can think of offhand - means that no store is within roughly 5 miles of another. Some may be the only stores within 20 or 30 square miles. I don't really get the Walmart analogy since the entire scuba population in Arizona is probably less than what goes through a WalMart daily. Or certainly weekly.

2. I've been diving here 25 years. To my knowledge there have been two stores go out of business since then and 3-4 open as new stores - mostly in areas that were farm fields as little as 10 years ago. Afaik only 4 of the existing stores have changed ownership in that time also. Not counting Sport Chalet, the SoCal chain which recently opened 3 stores here. So most of the LDS's have been around for at least a decade.

And honestly for all the bashing that Scuba Sciences has taken here recently, they've been around longer than most other stores have and some years ago bought out one of their competitors so they must be doing something right.

 

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And honestly for all the bashing that Scuba Sciences has taken here recently, they've been around longer than most other stores have and some years ago bought out one of their competitors so they must be doing something right.

Almost everything I read about them suggests they are a top notch operation, except their handling of this incident. Frankly, I can't see much they have done right regarding this incident. Their handling of this incident causes some serious concerns of their competence.

 

[ScubaTexan]

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[Scuba Sciences]

The first night I breathed on scuba I knew I was hooked! No pun intended!

I had a such a great experience in my Basic class with my buddy and OWI (now Boss) and kept working my way up the ladder of continuing education classes until I finally became an OWI myself. Once I finally mastered the underwater navigation I was okey dokey!

I gave up my "real job" to work in the diving industry (some times I think I'm crazy) but I really enjoy being able to take someone, show them the skills in the pool and here's the best part: take them diving in the ocean, show them the marine life and help them become a scuba diver. I absolutely love my job!

If I didn't trust my Instructors then and fellow employees now, I wouldn't be here 12 years later.

 

[lilmermaid]

One thing that I like about Scuba Sciences, is their advanced class. You pay one fee, and they inform you on about 40 different topics, and some books are included. Any other store I have been in, charge per class. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't have the funds to pay for each one idividually.

 

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One thing that I like about Scuba Sciences, is their advanced class. You pay one fee, and they inform you on about 40 different topics, and some books are included. Any other store I have been in, charge per class. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't have the funds to pay for each one idividually.

Does it include their equipment specialist class? If so, that would be a good one to take before you have your regs serviced.

 

[steeleflyn]

As a matter of fact, one of the topics is Equipment Maintenance. I found that class to be helpful, and the service tech who taught it was VERY knowledgeable, and I learned quite a bit from him. I have always taken my BC's and regs to him, and have never had a problem. Of course, I always examine my stuff and test it before I take it (like I do on anything that I am buying whether new or used, scuba or non-scuba related)...