I enjoyed taking the open water course. The instructors worked with me and helped me over come challenges. Nice and clean store, pool, and class room. Would recommend.
I completed the open water course today and had a fantastic experience! I got certified so that I could join my Boy Scout son in Florida this summer. My son took the class from Scuba Adventures previously and has already been diving. He learned so well that he wants me to go and for us to have a lifelong passion together while mom hangs at the beach! Scuba Adventures techniques are to promote the positive while training everyone to be comfortable with how to handle gear, support your buddy, and of course know what to do in tricky or emergency situations. There were some parts that were challenging but all the instructors – Tom, Bonnie, Brent and Paul were patient, kind and fun to work with which made things easy! I now have a lifelong skill that I can use with my son or anyone that wants to go and have fun while seeing an amazing underwater world. I highly recommend Scuba Adventures!
Response from the owner: You were in San Marcos!!! What a great picture! Bet you had a great training session in that clear water 🙌
I got my certification here. It was the most professional well prepared well taught course. I have no complaints. They told me everything upfront. Dave, you are a great instructor. Keep on teaching. I love the owner and Everyone at Scuba Adventure 🫵🏼✊🏼🤿Keep up the good business. 🤙🏼
Response from the owner: Thank you Collin! I wish everyone considering taking scuba could read your comments because who the instructor is = HUGE💯. Not only are our instructors superb, they understand the need to encourage and respect all students. Regardless of race, sex, or any geo demographics.
I had the most incredible day at Scuba Adventures in Plano, Tx! Taking their scuba discovery class was an absolute blast! Breathing underwater for the first time was beyond cool – it felt like diving into a whole new world of wonder.Brent and Autumn were fantastic, guiding us through every step with patience and enthusiasm. Learning how to clear my mask and mastering the art of descending and ascending in their 16ft heated pool was both thrilling and empowering.I can’t thank the team at Scuba Adventures enough for such an unforgettable experience. It’s definitely a day I’ll cherish forever. Highly recommend to anyone looking to dive into the underwater world!
Response from the owner: Hayden thanks for giving scuba a try! We think you have what it takes to be a fine diver💯. When the water warms up think about signing up for the full certification!
My first interaction with Scuba Adventure was getting them to do my annual equipment maintenance. The service was outstanding, and the staff was very friendly. I recently completed the Advanced Buoyancy Diver course. The experience was amazing! David Filas was the instructor. He presented the material in a clear way during the classroom session and taught the techniques with practical methods during the heated pool work. Highly recommend the course!
Response from the owner: We appreciate the detailed review Robert. And congrats on keep your dive gear serviced regularly. It’s wise to keep it in top shape! And glad you enjoyed the advanced buoyancy class. Our pool is perfect for it and it’s a skill you can use on every dive. Maybe the most useful course we teach! Sea you soon! 🐟🐠🦈
I did open water certification up to the open water dives, and then got a referral to finish on a vacation I was doing shortly after. I really enjoyed SDI elearning. It is very user friendly and well written. I felt overly prepared in knowledge before suiting up in the pool. After the confined water skills at Scuba Adventures, my dive instructor in Honduras was very impressed with my abilities right out of training, a testament to the quality of the training program at Scuba Adventures. I look forward to doing more specialties and certificates with this shop in the future.
Response from the owner: Yay we love it when our students travel and get compliments from other instructors and dive masters🫶. We’re proud to have you as part of our dive family.
Took the Discover Scuba course as part of a team event for work. Had never had much interest in scuba prior to the course, but after taking it, a lot of my team (myself included) are interested in becoming fully certified!The experience was so much fun from start to finish. Brent and Autumn were awesome instructors, and made the course extremely educational but so much fun at the same time. I’m really looking forward to going back for more advanced courses!
Response from the owner: Congrats Luc! Few people get to experience the super power of breathing underwater🚀. Sea you out here soon!
Scuba Adventures in Plano is the place to be!! My coworkers and I did a Discover Scuba class led by Brent and Autumn and had so much fun. Definitely will be returning to get my scuba certification! Shoutout to Scott Berry at the Dive shop for setting the whole thing up and for always going the extra mile for each customer! 5/5 stars- I wish I could give more!
Response from the owner: You’re da bestest!!!! Can’t wait to see you certified and diving in Mexico!
I’m not a social media or reviewer-type guy, but I just felt a positive review was warranted in this case. We just finished the Hogarthian 1 training class with SCUBA Adventures Plano. Brent was an excellent comprehensive and patient instructor and we learned SO much more than we were expecting or thought we paid for! The Global Underwater Explorers (GUE) learning path is an intriguing one and we can’t wait to practice and develop our skills. Scuba Adventures Plano will be our choice for instruction the whole way.
Response from the owner: Oh man🏆! You’re the best Jeff. Thank you for taking the time to document your experience with the dive shop and with Brent. He’s an owner, instructor and scuba fanatic and will enjoy seeing your review! Go the GUE way🎯
I wish I could give Scuba Adventures (“SA”) in Plano more than 5 stars. I completed my dive certification and SA was such a great place, from the great facilities to the professional staff. SA stressed safety and skill training. I especially enjoyed our open water session with Sarah and Vince who were not only friendly and patient with us, but were both so professional. You could tell they wanted each of us to have the necessary skills to complete a recreational dive in a safe manner. All the other students felt the same way. I am recommending SA to my son and his girlfriend to get certified at the SA facility. I am unable to think of a single complaint. Thank you again to all the staff, especially Sarah, Vince and Tom. Thank you for a wonderful safe open water weekend!! Andy
Response from the owner: What a beautiful review 🥰. Sarah is amazing. Always has a cheerful smile and an encouraging word for students in training. She’s also a beast inside the retailCenter. Proud of you for setting a tough goal and achieving full certification. Now get ready to dive the world!!!
Great dive shop. Vince is an amazing instructor. Highly recommend using Scuba Adventure for your certification.
Response from the owner: Yay Vince! We will tell him about your review! Thank you for investing the time to recognize our team. It means the world to know that we are making great and fulfilled divers. Congrats Jennifer!
Great group of people from the instructors to the employees. Great knowledge of products
Response from the owner: Thank you Randy! We know it takes time to get google ratings and reviews up for your favorite businesses, but it really helps new divers find the right dive shop! You’re the best🏆🤿
The friendliest, most professional and helpful scuba shop I have visited. The sales and support teams are extremely helpful and know-ledged. Had my Halcyon BCD donut wing bladder replaced here. The indoor pool is also 15″ feet deep and is warm.Highly recommended for equipment sales, support and diving certifications. A+++
Response from the owner: Thank you Kevin! We love being known and friendly and professional! Sea you soon!
Awesome service and very helpful and friendly staff
Response from the owner: Thanks Jay!
I recently completed my Nitrox certification with this shop. The professionalism and expertise of the staff are truly commendable. Sarah made the registration process a breeze with her amazing assistance, and Barry, my instructor, deserves a shout-out for his exceptional patience and thoroughness in covering the training material. Huge thanks to the entire team for providing such an amazing and pleasant learning experience. I can not wait to complete the Rescue Diver certification with them soon—thank you guys!!!
Response from the owner: Jessica we would LOVE to teach you Rescue once the water warms up! Also we will tell Sarah and Barry how much you appreciated their help!
We registered for BSA Merit Badges (Swimming & Life saving). The instructor was very professional, experienced and friendly.
Response from the owner: Thanks Jhansi! We’ve been working with scouts for years and hope that many become great swimmers and scuba divers later in life!
The wife and myself had decided to get our open water certification, after looking into everything we decided we needed to get our personal gear. ( location we are doing class said they would supply gear). After talking with Autumn and Abigail, we were certain we made the correct choice in dive shops. We changed our mind some many times on items, they even let us try out our gear in the pool. After many hours we finally decided on what we liked the best. Everyone was so unbelievably helpful. Explained what each piece should feel like and fit. Very grateful for all the help and professionalism. The only regret we have is that we didn’t do our class and certification with them. The best part is we are just starting, so in the future we will definitely be doing classes with them. Thank you so much again.
Response from the owner: Awe, what an incredible review. Thank you Wally! No worries about not getting your initial training with us. We’re all about creating successful and adventuresome divers. And maybe a few dive fanatics along the way😂. You’ve honored us becoming part of our dive family. Make sure to follow us on Facebook @scubaadventuresplano so we can go diving together! Sea you soon🐠🐟
Very helpful and knowledgeable for our first real purchase of scuba equipment
Response from the owner: Thanks Sara! Gear lasts for a long time so congrats on getting quality! Let’s go diving soon!
Very well organized and managed. We took the “Discover Scuba” training and the entire experience right from booking to the training was great. Barry, our coach for the training was awesome, a thorough professional. All in all, we highly recommend this place.
Response from the owner: Thank you for giving Scuba a Try and allowing our team to be the ones to introduce you. Barry loves teaching and we’re thrilled you enjoy the experience! You now have a super power! Breathing under water!!!!!!
It was such a wonderful experience!!! Barry is such a great scuba instructor. The entire setup of enrolling and taking the scuba discovery class was so smooth. I am going to go back for sure. Thanks Scuba Adventures Plano.
Response from the owner: Thank you for giving Scuba a try! We can’t wait to have you back! And we appreciate you trusting our staff to introduce you to the joys of scuba!
It was a great experience! They prioritize safety first and recognized my ears were not at an equilibrium. Even though we’re out of the state, we will be back when in town.
Response from the owner: Thank you for making the drive and hitting the pool with us! Safety first and then fun!
Loved our Scuba Discovery dive
Response from the owner: Yay Murali! You can breathe underwater! Make your friends call you aqua man from now on😂🤣. You earned it!
Fantastic experience at Balmorhea with Vince!
Response from the owner: Thank You Heather! It was exciting to go with you to Balmorhea and enjoy the clear spring water and comfortable temperatures! We appreciate you mentioning Vince and we will certainly let him know! Sea you soon!
Super awesome experience learning about diving and swimming! Can’t wait to sign up to be to be certified
Response from the owner: Yay Michael! Congrats on giving scuba a try! Life is short, so let’s go dive the oceans!
My 12 year old tried the discovery course and loved it! The classroom portion is done at home, which is nice for your own pace. There was a brief introduction and fitting when we showed up for the scheduled time, then straight in the pool! The instructors were encouraging but let everyone try at their own pace. 10/10 will return to try it myself.
Response from the owner: Come on Justin let’s do it!!! Scuba diving is great fun for the entire family. The discovery course is super fun even if you decide not to get certified. Something magical about breathing underwater for the first time.
Completed my basic open water certification through Scuba Adventures Plano. My dive instructors – Vince and Elon, and the crew helping – Enrique and Derrick, are all incredibly knowledgeable and create a wonderful environment to learn and overcome nerves/anxiety as well as to have fun. They take the time and care to assure that everyone’s questions are answered and that they are confident in attempting the skill being learned. They provided helpful feedback and it seemed that each student was able to proceed at their own pace (class was ages 11 to 40s).
Response from the owner: Michael, this is just the type of review we love to sea😍. Thank you for trusting us with your open water certification and for recognizing Vince, Elon, Enrique, and Derrick! You’ve said it better than we ever could have 🙌. Thank you and hope to dive with you again soon!
Great experience getting certified with amazing instructors: Windal, Bruce, Shug, and Derek. They made the experience fun and enjoyable.
Response from the owner: Yay John! Congratulations on getting certified⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! Our staff will be thrilled to see this review. They have such a huge passion for teaching and leading. We’re glad it shows through in their work! Come take a trip with us soon🐠
Very professional, great attitudes and SDI course is packed with great information about open water certifications
Response from the owner: We love the SDI content as well! Never seen anything quite like it. The education is astonishing when paired with our instructional staff! Christian, come dive with us soon and make sure you are following us on FB where we post everything!
Outstanding and professional group of fun loving divers.
Response from the owner: We are a fun group 🥳. We have a private FB group you can join simply by asking. It’s designed for our local divers who want to stay up on everything scuba adventures related and her first access to trips and specials! It’s our “dive squad” family! Please join!
We had the best time getting dive certified with David in the pool and Barry and Sarah for Open Water at the Scuba Ranch. I highly recommend them!!Everyone at the shop is incredibly helpful and super fun. Scheduling the class was easy and when we needed to change our open water weekend they were extremely accommodating. I would give them more than 5 Stars if I could
Response from the owner: We want all 6 stars Natalie!!! It’s going to be our goal now to provide 6 Star Service to our students 😂. The team works so hard to blow our students and dive family away so it’s thrilling to see we’ve done a great job. We will make sure Barry, Sarah, and David know how much you appreciated their leadership. Make sure to follow our list of upcoming dive trips so you can experience clear blue water for the first time🐠
Wow….. just WOW! Awesome group of people. Very fun to be around as well as serious when it comes to safety while diving and understanding concepts behind emergency procedures and techniques involved with scuba diving. An awesome scuba family to be adopted into 🥰 🤙
Response from the owner: You’re in the family Savannah! Make sure to join our private fb group for those that are local. We give the group first shot at upcoming trips and specials. Can’t wait to get you down to Mahahual where the reefs are rich, the water is clear and the food is second only to the drinks. Sea you soon!
David was amazing. We had an inactive diver refresher course before our trip to Hawaii and he did a wonderful job of getting us comfortable our equipment and skillsets back up to par. Now we feel confident and excited for our upcoming trip. Thanks David!
Response from the owner: Adam, thank you for recognizing David and the dive shop. Hawaii is a very exciting place to dive and they are known worldwide for the night, manta ray dives. We hope you never stop traveling and exploring because no two dives are the same! Sea you soon!🐟🐟🐟🐟
The divers at Scuba Adventures at Plano were professional, friendly and patient. They were fantastic with my 13 year old son, who was taking scuba lessons for the first time, and with me during my scuba refresher. We had an exceptional experience.
Response from the owner: We love teaching youngsters M’cherie. They can be wonderful learners and surprise us all. New divers use Google to decide who to dive with so we are blessed to have you share your personal experiences with everyone!
Had an incredible experience with Scuba Adventures! Top notch staff! Thank you Barry, Enrique and Preston for a great experience for my son to learn from the 3 of you! You all are the best! He is an official junior certified scuba diver today! We will definitely be back! Thank you!
Response from the owner: Yay congrats to Barry, Enrique and Preston for taking incredible care of Lori! We’re thrilled your son is junior certified!
Great experience and fun, highly recommended!
Response from the owner: Thank you Denis! We appreciate you👊🏼
After a four year hiatus from diving, I went back for a refresher and gear upgrade. Rusty was very thorough and made sure I was clear on my knowledge during the refresher and also helping me pick out my dive computer. Autumn spent a lot of time with me going through the details of the Halcyon BCD, she all but tore the BCD apart, her knowledge was impressive.If you are looking to get certified, new dive gear or service, I highly suggest you make Scuba Adventures your first stop.
Response from the owner: Yay Kevin! What a cool review. Rusty and Autumn will love seeing this. They are both jewels! Thank you for the superb rating and review. We have the bestest dive family in the WORLD🙏🏻🙌
These guys/gals are amazing. They absolutely love scuba and it shows. Their DM’s, Instructors, Asst. Instructors, and Staff want nothing more than to elevate your knowledge through positive education. Questions are highly encouraged because SAFETY is the most important factor. They truly want to make you a better diver! I just completed a refresher, and it was awesome. Time/money very well spent. I had objectives I wanted to achieve with regard to trim/buoyancy working with a new BC, and our instructor was SOLID!! Thank you!
Response from the owner: Love this👆🏼!
I originally received my open water scuba certification from Scuba Adventures 16 years ago. I decided to go through the certification again with my daughter so we could enjoy this amazing hobby together. Brent, the owner, and our two instructors, Preston and Enrique were the best! They helped us with the purchase of our equipment and made me and my daughter feel very confident with the skills we learned together. We plan to add to our scuba certifications with Scuba Adventures as we gain experience. I would recommend Scuba Adventures of Plano to anyone new to diving or interested in adding to their scuba resume. 100% satisfied with our experience. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Response from the owner: We love that you’re introducing your daughter to scuba. It will be life changing for her! It’s just a whole new world and diving emboldens young women and men to dream big and seize new opportunities and adventures! She will thank you for it!
Highly recommend Scuba Adventures for your certification courses and rentals. Fun, thorough, and make you a confident, well trained, safe, and comfortable diver. We had our kids do their OW and Nitrox courses and worked with Leora, Brent, Dave, Bruce, and Barry. Had a stellar experience from beginning to end. Shoutout to Autumn who answered all of our questions and helped every step of the way.
Response from the owner: Thank you Derek! We love it when parents introduce their children to the underwater world. You had a wonderful crew to help train your young ones! Thank you for choosing us!
Barry, Autumn, and Vince were fantastic. They are patient, communicate well, and are extremely knowledgeable about the sport. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them or their organization to anyone.
Response from the owner: Alright alright alright! Thank you Lisa for recognizing all three of these folks. They have been with us for quite a while, and LOVE what they do. We love our students so much❤️❤️❤️❤️.
Barry was a great instructor! I’ve done small dives in Mexico before but I feel 1000% times more confident in what I’m doing after this class. Shoutout to Autumn too, very helpful and encouraging!
Response from the owner: Go Hanna! And yay Barry and Autumn. We have a great thing going with these two. They thrill students and our dive family! It’s time to sea you in one of our big live a board trips in 2024!
I recommend Scuba Adventures Plano to anyone who is curious about learning more about Scuba. My fiance and I took this course to prepare for our honeymoon and I am so glad that we did. David and Bonnie were so supportive and helped me overcome any anxiety and hesitation I may have had. You can tell that every person at this shop has a passion for what they do!They truly go the extra mile! Ex. They connected my fiance and I with another diver that went to Thailand so we can get tips and suggestions from him. How great is that!
Response from the owner: Love this review so much Emily. We wish everyone could see it! You’re the greatest for taking the time to share your personal experience and note that the staff went above and beyond. We have the greatest team and dive family. Let’s go diving soon💯
My niece Addison and I decided to get open water and Nitrox certified through Scuba Adventures in Plano. In the past, I would get resort certified while on vacation, but I’m tired of wasting nearly a day going through this process, so I decided to get certified, so I didn’t have to waste more of my future vacation time. When we signed up, Addison and I were fitted for equipment, and everybody at Scuba Adventures was very nice and patient with us. We were lucky to have David Blasingame and Bonnie Sanford. They were very organized and patient with everybody and made sure everybody in our class understood and could perform each skill before moving to the next skill. They were both very knowledgeable, and they made the class super fun! In previous dives (being resort certified), I was not adequately taught how to equalize my ears. I was also not taught how to be neutrally buoyant, so I was constantly flailing in the water and had no control. I feel comfortable descending at the same speed as my dive buddy and fellow divers, and I’m confident as an open water certified scuba diver. We did our open water dive at Scuba Ranch and met other instructors from Scuba Adventures who were all very knowledgeable. I highly recommend Scuba Adventures, and hopefully, you’ll be lucky to get David and Bonnie as your Dive instructors too.
Response from the owner: OMG😍❤️😍❤️😍! This is the greatest review ever 🙌. We’re so proud of you and Addison. This is what we live for! She will never forget what you’ve done introducing her to the underwater world. Getting certified empowers and emboldens young women. And they make amazing divers. Our girls that scuba dive all over the world including night diving and diving with reef sharks! Thank you again for trusting us with your certification, and for giving us such a wonderful review. We hope everyone sees this before deciding where to get trained!
Completed my open water certification today. What a great experience. The instructor and dive master were awesome. Very knowledgeable and a pleasure to be around. Highly recommend this program and dive shop
Response from the owner: James you’re a SCUBA DIVER! It’s time to travel the world and dive! Thank you for the 5 star review⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
