Beach Cities Scuba

Beach Cities Scuba is the largest independent full-service dive center in Orange County, and stepping through the doors of any of its seven locations means dealing with experienced staff who take diving seriously. As a PADI 5 Star IDC backed by 62 PADI instructors, this is a place built to carry you from your very first breath underwater all the way to technical and instructor-level training.

Training, gear and local diving

The range here is genuinely broad: PADI Scuba Diving, TecRec, Freediving, Mermaid, Snorkelling and EFR first aid, supported by an onsite training pool, classroom and an Adaptive Services Facility. Beyond instruction, you'll find equipment sales and rentals, air fills, nitrox, trimix and mixed gas, plus a retail shop, dive club, conservation activities and travel.

Southern California's cool waters are the draw, with dives at Casino Point Dive Park, Bird Rock on Catalina Island, Point Dume, Shaw's Cove and Laguna Beach among others. Expect sharks, rays, turtles, eels, molluscs and crustaceans. With English, Japanese and Arabic spoken, it suits divers at every level.