Cal School of Diving

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I have been medicaly compromised (hospital quality sick) since Xmas 2012. So I have not answered most phonecalls/emails since then. I am now up and about - preparing the pool etc. If I am not 100% I cannot enter our "tepid" H20. A lot of you are waiting for prescription masks, computers, BCs, Regs, Suits, snorkeling gear et al. Stay in touch. I will catch up on messages this week. Soooorry. Having the only pool around Berkeley is good - sometimes--

Diving Lessons

Scuba & Snorkeling gear  

Next beginning Scuba class - PROBABLY February 24th

As many of you figured out, I have left the building on 6th St. "CalDive Lives"!, and moved up the street! About 5 blocks –number furnished by phone. I am now totally @ the pool! And my Snorkel, Scuba inventory fills my 30’ by 60 ft. basement My compressor is there too. I want to stay open so there is an East Bay alternate to the Internet for gear and “online SCUBA courses”. What a humorous - thought Learn to dive online – maybe even go into a pool once. I’m joking (a little). More on that later – click on Instruction please!

Welcome to the best SCUBA and SNORLELING training facility anywhere! To be MORE humble, we also have the best gear for these sports. - Mask, snorkel, fins of various format, Boots, Gloves, Scuba regulators, Buoyancy Compensators,  Tanks, Computers, Compasses, Pressure gauges - (submersible) joke again, We are NOT an inexpensive store, we are a good store Think about it. We have masks for normal biped “human’ faces, a complete stock of near-sighted 1.5 to 8.0 corrective lenses, masks for thinner adult faces with eyes between 50 and 65 mm. for kids 5-10, for us big guys with bigger noses, flat round faces, and newcomers faces that are extremely forgiving on any face at any skill level. (Extra silicon does the trick) Boots and fins to exactly fit your feet and physical condition.
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This brings up a touchy situation.
Parking - one customer at a time. Giggling water type people carrying fins and such – and there is no place for our neighnors to park - BAD. We have been open with a myriad of staff for 30 years. The neighbors know what we do. There is a lot of good will between neighbors and our LOUD?? Pool training! Think hysterical laughter after flooding your mask and nose yet AGAIN!!

Also, I need a personal life so I will answer our phone, and make appointments Wed-Sat 12-3. I can make in-person appointments for anytime – morning days or eves BUT it must be planned by phone. I am one of the last SCUBA stores selling good quality gear ONLY NO POOL TOYS, On-line, they do not differentiate between good gear and toys. SCUBA$.com has nice pictures and good write ups, BUT they know nothing about gear. Or teaching SCUBA! Don't sign up for an "ONLINE SCUBA COURSE" What are you thinking. I'm a flight instructor. Want to watch a dvd and solo a cessna - Ya think? I’ll shut up about the web now!

I live in a residential area, and cannot have four cars parked in the street outside my house. My neighbors would frown.

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