D D Dive Shop

I had bought a Unilocal special deal for SCUBA discovery as a birthday gift for my husband. It was totally worth it. The instructors are very knowledgeable and made the experience so much fun. We ended up signing up for the PADI Open Water dive certification. We both passed, and can’t wait to go do some exploring.
Thank you DD Dive!

The guys at D D Dive were really great! My wife and I just went out for an introductory course, and would totally go back to get our scuba certification if it was closer to home in the city instead of the burbs.
The course was more than an introductory lesson really, I had never scuba’d before and by the end I felt like I could go off on my own. They even let us spend extra time in the pool after the lesson. Really a high class operation, the instructors were fun to work with and I would absolutely recommend to anyone in the area.

I started my PADI Open Water dive certification course with D D Dive (taking the coursework online) and confined water dives in Glenview. Everything about this place: the equipment and the training are top-​notch. Even before starting coursework, I picked up the minimum amount of gear I would need from the very comprehensive array of in-​store merchandise. I might have been skeptical at first but everything that was suggested to me («You’ll really want this, trust me.») turned out to be spot-​on when I arrived in Cancun to meet friends and complete the final parts of my certification. The time we spent selecting the correct mask paid off: it fit perfectly and had corrective lenses that were impeccably installed and was comfortable to wear dive after dive. Further, when I arrived in Cancun I was the only one among my friends who had comfortably mastered the confined water skills. Since they had all gone to different dive shops, I was particularly pleased (smug?) with the effectiveness of the training I’d received. Now that I have an Open Water certification, I hope to return to D D Dive for more advanced training and organized dives.

Hey! This is where I got certified to dive! I would recommend them for sure. They hold class at the Glenview location (text review) but you do your pool practice at the Des Plaines YMCA — then for your final open water dive you will go to Joliet and dive in a quarry (which was freaky because there was no visibility). Anyhoo, they speak Polish & English.

This is the place for guys. They have unlimited sports equipment and shoes and clothes. The prices are kind of high but for the most part their alright.