Dive Shop

I took the weekend (Friday-​Sunday) open water course and open water checkout with the Dive Shop. Everyone who worked for them was incredibly nice and helpful. Neal taught the weekend course and Alan was my instructor for the open water portion. The instructors just love diving and love being able to share their scuba knowledge and dive stories with the students. I always felt safe with them and would highly, highly recommend taking courses with them.
The Dive Shop has a pool (seems to be the only place in the area with their own pool) so the course is straightforward. The weekend course is an intense weekend — Friday 6 – 9 or so, Saturday 9 – 5 (with breaks) and Sunday 9 – 2. But I think it was the best way to do it, as the classes are so close together you don’t forget anything. They offer other class options as well. I did the checkout at Beaver Lake in Arkansas which has lots of weird sunken things like a toilet and a VW Bug! The instructors know how to find the cool stuff there. With full gear rental including mask and fins (not including hotel/​food at Beaver Lake), the whole class was about $ 500, which seemed pretty reasonable.
If you take a class with them, they allow you to come in on Sunday afternoons and use their pool and equipment to brush up on your skills for $ 10. Seems like a great deal to me! And I plan to take them up on it periodically!

Wonderful people at the Dive shop! I went in to get a fin fixed and they gave me the missing part for free. They were very helpful and I will definitely be using them again for any of my diving needs.

My wife’s family and I all went through The Dive Shop to get our diver training. This place is great store for BCs, Wet Suits, an other diving equipment. The store is always clean and things are easy to find. The staff is knowledgeable and very helpful, this may be because they all love diving. The thing that makes this a great place to learn to dive is that you can take your classes here in their classroom, and then learn your skills in their dive pool. They make a seemingly endless amount of info and skills elementary.
One of the perks they used to do was that for divers who went through classes here got to come in on Sundays from 1:00pm-4:00pm and dive in their pool for free (and use all of their equipment). Sadly they no longer do this, due to the high amount of people who took advantage of this. They do however, still let you come in and dive with their equipment for $ 10 a person. This honestly is a deal, $ 10 for 3 hours I unlimited tanks and free use equipment. If this were still free this place would be a 5 star hands down.