Atlantis Scuba

9 years ago, my son and I were Padi certified through this shop with Kevin. He was the best instructor. Very knowledgable, gave us extra tutoring in the pool because we needed it to pass properly. He fitted us with good masks and snorkel and everything we needed for our first dive trip. Highly recommend.

All of the glowing reviews on here are absolutely true. Kevin is extremely helpful and knowledgeable. His prices are fair and the expertise is priceless. Atlantis Scuba is not the closest shop to me, but I drive the extra distance because I trust what I am told and I know that if there is anything he can help me with, he absolutely will

ScubaKev and Atlantis Scuba are incredibly awesome!!! I cannot recommend them highly enough!!

Kevin is a former Marine Corps officer -- Harrier Pilot -- and teaches like he was trained. Compentently, confidently, methodically, and calmly. He instills incredible confidence and talks you through any questions or concerns that you have.

I would, and am trusting myself and my entire family to him.

P.S. I saw the one bad review on here regarding this business, and I'm assuming the owner, Kevin. Obviously, this person did not ask a follow up question. My experience was this: I literally walked up to the shop as it was being closed for the day -- on a day that Kevin was going out of town. He took the time to bring me inside and give me information about his upcoming classes. When we saw that I couldn't make an upcoming class work prior to my trip, he told me that I may be able to find available classes elsewhere (a kind gesture). I texted him asked about his private classes (he had given me his cell number) -- AS HE SAYS ARE AVAILABLE, BOTH ON THE PAPERWORK AND ON HIS WEBSITE. He answered me promptly and said that yes, that was something that we could make work, but warned me that it was more costly -- which was a kind gesture, since the easy thing to do that would have benefitted him would have been to push me to do it. I let him know that I really needed it by a certain time, he worked with my schedule and made it work so that I was able to get fully and completely trained prior to my upcoming trip.

Once again, I cannot say enough good things. If you have always wanted to Scuba Dive, as I have, go to Atlantis Scuba and talk to Kevin. You will not be disappointed.

Update: It's now 2+ years later. I finished my SCUBA on the trip to Maui and had a great time. I was 100% confident, based on the training that I had received from Kevin at Atlantis Scuba. In addition to the Check Dives to complete my certification, I did four other boat dives and was completely comfortable based on the training I had received from Kevin. Unfortunately, I let two years go by without using my training, but recently, my 13 year old has gotten interested in getting certified. We did two private lessons in our home pool with both my 13 year old and 11 year old -- sort of an Intro to Scuba type thing. The 11 year old did not want to go on with training, but the 13 year old loves it. We have now done several more private lessons, and I have done some of the classes with my son as Refresher Classes. This past weekend, we did a couple of private check dives with Kevin at a local lake. My son is close to finishing his Open Water Certification and I have gotten in two more Open Water dives.

The bottom line is that you will be very pleased with training at Atlantis and with ScubaKev. He is very patient, thorough, and personable. He is the opposite of "high pressure sales." In fact, he bends over backwards to not over-charge. Frankly, I don't think he charges enough. I cannot imagine that other instrutors are as thorough as him -- he is former Marine Corps Fighter Jet Pilot, so he knows how to walk through checklists thoroughly and completely every time. And in fact, last week at the lake, after over hearing Kevin's instructions and guidance to my son and me, another group of divers interrupted us to tell me how fortunate we were to have someone like Kevin instructing us. They said that they got none of what he was giving us, during their classes.

Kevin runs a great shop! We learned a lot. We needed more time to perfect some skills and he was able to accommodate us! thanks to him we were FULLY prepared to get Certified and go on our 1st and 2nd dives in Hawaii (off Lanai, 80 feet of awesomeness!)

Kevin does a great job of let you practice the skills to build muscle memory to where much of it became "natural" after awhile! Always building to enhance learning!

I would highly recommend him to EVERYONE - young - old, etc.