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Athens Scuba Dive Trip Opportunities

Open Water Certification Package and Dive Trip – Two Exciting Opportunities in One!

April 9-13, 2025

Announcing!…Cozumel Certification Package!

Have you always dreamed about learning how to SCUBA dive and diving in the tropical ocean to watch turtles, rays and other amazing creatures? With this certification package you can do just that! With this exciting new option, Athens Scuba is offering to finish your Open Water certification in the beautiful ocean right off Cozumel in Mexico.

The first two parts of the Open Water Diver class will be exactly as the other Open Water Diver packages Athens Scuba offers, SDI or PADI online knowledge development and confined water training in the pool at Oconee Aquatics & Recreation in Watkinsville.

The check out dives will be done in Cozumel/Mexico, while being on a trip with Athens Scuba in April of 2025.

Package price $1899

(only $500 above the dive trip price (see below) for full Open Water Certification Course)

Are you already certified? Join us for an exciting Spring dive trip to Cozumel!


Whether finishing your certification or already certified, join us for an amazing trip to Cozumel, Mexico. This is such a great trip as Cozumel is easy to get to and the dates line up with most of Georgia schools’ spring-breaks. Three days of diving, enjoying the beach and the many amenities of the beautiful Iberostar hotel, and exploring Cozumel.
Dive trip includes:
  – 4 nights’ accommodations
  – All-inclusive meals and drinks (alcohol included)
  – Free Roundtrip airport transfers from Cozumel airport
  – 3 days of 2-tank boat diving
  – Free Nitrox
Prices starting at $1399
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Athens Scuba Gear Shop

ATHENS SCUBA LOGO T-SHIRTS – ALL STYLES AND SIZES!

Short Sleeve, Long Sleeve and Hoodie T-shirts

We are proud of the divers in our community and our divers are proud of being part of the Athens Scuba community. We have been asked over and over again for Athens Scuba logo t-shirts so you can display that pride. They have arrived!

Three Styles
Short sleeve
Long sleeve
Hoodie		Two designs and colors
in each style
XS, S, M, L, XL, 2XL
in each design and color		6 t-shirts to choose from
Starting at $20
(sale price – see below)

$5 off all logo Ts through Sept 30, 2024!

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Announcing!

Athens Scuba Club

We are excited to announce the new Athens Scuba Club began at the end of 2023! We have established this club of avid divers to build a community spirit among those that dive with, take courses from and buy gear at Athens Scuba.  Annual membership fee is $200 but is offset by the benefits detailed below. Joining now means you will be a member for all of 2024. The benefits include:

  • Two annual events – Summer and Winter (Christmas); fully-hosted (food and drinks)
  • Summer and Christmas gear sales with at least 20% off on all merchandise
  • Two-week early access for trip sign up
  • One free SDI Specialty Class per year (not including dives)
  • 10% discount on all classes (not including dives)
  • Two give-away Discovery Dive vouchers per year

We had our Christmas event in December and it was enjoyed by all the current club members. We hope that you are as excited as we are about belonging to this community of people that love to dive and share our love of diving with others. Email Athens Scuba at info@athensscuba.com to join!

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Athen Scuba Dive Trip Opportunities

Announcing! – New 2024 and 2025 Dive Trips

Fort Lauderdale 2024

27 June – 1 July

We had a great time in 2023, so we’re doing it again! We have planned a great, long-weekend trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida from 27 June to 1 July 2024. This will be a fun and relaxed getaway for newly certified divers and experienced divers alike! Fort Lauderdale offers Florida Keys like diving with usually minimal current and beautiful warm water.

The trip includes accommodations in the Bahia Mar Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort. The hotel is right across a street from the hotels own beach and right on the bay where the dive shop’s boat is located.

We will do four double-tank boat trips (one on each of two days; and two on one day) for a total of eight dives. Usually the dive operator takes the divers to one of the many wrecks in the area for the first dive and a shallow reef dive for the second dive. All dives are suitable for all certified divers.

This trip would be great to do the Advanced Open Water Diver class.

Diver in double occupancy is $1049.

Diver in single occupancy is $1499.

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Roatan 2024

7-14 December

Everyone loved Turquoise Bay Resort in October 2023 so we are going back! The largest of the bay islands off the coast of Honduras, Roatan is one of the best places to SCUBA dive in the Caribbean (and only a 2.5 hour flight away from home). The trip includes six days of up to three dives daily and one boat night dive, as well as an all inclusive meal and drink plan.

Divers from only $1799 Non-divers from only $1399

This trip is sure to fill up fast so book your spot now!

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Philippines 2025

1-11 March

Announcing! 

A dive trip to Puerto Galera and Dumaguete in the Philippines, March 1-11, 2025. We have been working on a trip to the Philippines for over a year and it is finally happening. We will be staying at the Atlantis Resorts in both locations. Atlantis Resorts are known for setting the standard in concierge service in all aspects of resort vacations (diving, food, accommodations, etc.). This will be the dive trip of a lifetime!

Visit the coral triangle with us and see animals you’ve never seen before…a macro paradise! The trip includes:

  • 8 diving days – up to 5 dives a day
  • Verde and Apo Island day trips
  • All inclusive gourmet meals and drinks (does not include alcohol)
  • All group transfers to/from Manila (expensive single transfers upon request)

Divers from only $4,199

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Other 2024 Dive Trip Opportunities

The following dive trips are scheduled for 2024 and filling fast. Book now! They are all almost full!

Thailand Dive Trip: April 6-17, 2024 

Cozumel Dive Trip: June 1-8, 2024

Fiji Dive Trip: September 7-17, 2024

Thailand Info
Cozumel Info
Fiji Info

Athens Scuba Courses

Florida Springs Trips

We have conveniently scheduled FL Springs weekends this winter to offer ample options to our community. All Springs weekends are excellent opportunities to complete your Open Water certification check out dives.

  • March 8-10, 2024
  • March 22-24, 2024
  • April 19-21, 2024 

Athens Scuba is offering more opportunities for our community to expand their diving knowledge and expertise. The following advanced courses are being offered as part of the Springs weekends:

  • March 8-10: Advanced Open Water (a logical next step after completing your initial Open Water certification)
  • March 22-24: Rescue Diver (a course that broadens your perspective from “self” to group awareness)

For more information visit our Events section from the Home Menu.

2024 Scuba Summer Camps!

Not one but two!

June 17-21 and July 22-26

Athens Scuba is proud to announce that we are, for the third summer in a row, organizing Scuba Summer Camp for kids from age 10 to 16! This year, for the first time we are offering two full camp sessions. 

We teach children a variety of knowledge and skills around scuba diving, snorkeling and swimming. Required academics will be mixed with fun facts and educational videos. Water skills will be blended with fun activities, free diving and more. All learning and activities will assist the future scuba divers in developing a better finning technique and airway control.

The camp will not fully certify the participants, but it will cover 2/3 of the full SDI Open Water Diver course. We’ll finish all knowledge development and basic skill training. Because the four check out dives required for full certification can’t be completed in a pool, we will offer these as an add-on later in the summer.

Scuba Camp Info

Athens Scuba Gear Shop

Akona Wetsuit Sale!

Why go through the hassle of renting the gear you need when Athens Scuba offers world-class brand names at prices that can’t be beat?! We haul wetsuits on trip after trip and to all of our check out dive locations for our courses. All of our divers need wetsuits so why not buy it now and avoid rental charges? To give our divers a push toward owning the gear they need, we are offering the following amazing deal:

All Akona 5mm Wetsuits for $300! 

(Originally $385)

This wetsuit sale will last through the end of March. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to get the top-of-the-line wetsuit you’ve wanted and needed at a greatly reduced price. 

DiveVolk Phone Housings Available for All Phones!

Athens Scuba is a reseller for the DiveVolk, revolutionary touch-screen underwater phone housing. BE AWARE! DiveVolk housings fit all phone types! If we do not carry the adapter for your phone type, we simply order it. Fast service! No worries!

Everyone can have the latest in underwater photo/video technology no matter what phone you use.

Email us at info@athensscuba.com to arrange a time to buy your Akona wetsuit or Divevolk phone housing. 

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Athens Scuba kick off 2023

Athens Scuba has had an eventful year of 2022 and 2023 looks even more exciting.

Besides having our shop now fully operational and stocked, we’ll have plenty of trips and opportunities to get everyone diving!

We started our year strong with a trip to the Springs with a few Open Water and Advanced Open Water students. We had a great weekend and everyone got certified.

This month we are having our biggest trip to the Florida Springs yet, with 19 divers total, 5 of them PADI Open WaterDiver students! On February 25th we’ll start to on our long awaited group trip to Thailand, for two weeks with one week liveaboard and one week exploring Thailand.

Beach in Thailand

The rest of the spring we’ll spend training new divers the basics at the Georgia Aquatic Center in Watkinsville and in the Florida Springs.

We’ll have another exciting group trip to Grenada in April/May and a trip to Cozumel in June.

Beach bar on Grenada

Our lake Jocassee season is going to start in the beginning of June. We’ll go to the lake every other weekend throughout the summer, until late in October. All dates are on the website.

After the big success of last years scuba summer camp, we’ve decided that we’ll do another this year from June 12th to 16th.

Our teenage summer camp participants with DM Susan and Instructor Ben

While going to the lake every other weekend we’ll kept on doing confined water session for our Open Water courses, PADI Discover Scuba Dives for people who’ve never been diving before and Enriched Air Nitrox classes, all at the Georgia Aquatic Center.

Michelle and Emily at their PADI Discover Scuba lesson, which they enjoyed a lot and after which they signed up for a PADI Open Water Diver course.

In September we’ll be going to Roatan, Honduras for another big group trip.

Resort we’ll stay in on Roatan

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Group Trip to the Florida Springs

Athens Scuba has successfully completed another group trip to the Florida Springs.

We had a total of 12 divers, some for fun diving, some for Open Water check out dives and some to start their Advanced courses.

We all arrived Friday evening and stayed until Sunday around noon. This trip was the first time we stayed at the cabins at the Blue Grotto Dive Resort.

The cabins are simple but clean and air conditioned. We occupied almost all of their cabin, brought a grill and had a great time spending time together.

After the Saturday morning dive at Blue Grotto and the afternoon dive at the Rainbow River we did a night dive at Blue Grotto, which marked for many of the divers the beginning of their PADI Advanced Open Water diver course.

Sunday morning we did our last dive at Devils Den, which was great, as always. On all our dives we beat the crowds and had the dive sites mostly to ourselves and we were able to make our way back to Athens around 11:00am.

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Scuba Summer Camp 2022

Athens Scuba is proud to announce that we are organizing Athens’ first ever Scuba Summer Camp for kids from age 10 to 17! We are excited to teach children a variety of knowledge and skills around scuba diving, snorkeling and swimming.

In this summer camp, required academics will be mixed with fun facts and educational videos. Water skills will be blended with fun activities, free diving and more, all of which will assist the future scuba divers in developing a better finning technique and airway control.

The camp will not fully certify the participant, but it will cover 2/3 of the full PADI Open Water Diver course. We will finish all knowledge and basic skill training with the children. The four check out dives required for full certification will be offered as an add-on later in the summer because the dives can’t be completed in a pool.

Requirements:

  • Minimum age is 10 years
  • Kids must be able to swim before the camp starts
  • Certain medical conditions will require a physicians sign off

The 5 Day Summer Camp from June 27th to July 1st 2022 includes:

  • Daily Supervision from 9AM to 3 PM
  • Two dive professionals in the water at all times while the campers are in
  • Life guard on duty whenever the campers will be in the water
  • Swim and snorkeling development, supervised by a professional swim coach on days one and two
  • Scuba knowledge development according to PADI standards
  • Scuba skill development according to PADI standards
  • Each child gets their own gear set with a Mask, Fins and Snorkel
  • Snacks
  • Water
  • Grill out Friday afternoon with parents

Parents are invited to join us Friday afternoon to check out the skills their children have learned and are encouraged to hop in and try scuba diving for free with us as well!