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 Huron Scuba
was founded in 1996 by Dave and
Rachael Kasper with the purpose of providing
personalized, professional training at all
levels of scuba diving and snorkeling. At its
current location in Ann Arbor, Michigan since
1999, Huron Scuba has received numerous awards,
including the prestigious
2007 Excellence in Retailing Award from
the Council on Retail Excellence ("C.O.R.E.").
This is the fourth consecutive year
that Huron Scuba has been recognized as one of
the USA's best dive centers!
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In 2009 Brian Bondy came on board to learn what
it takes to run one of the best dive centers in
the USA. After a great deal of training
and support from the Kaspers Brian took over as
the president of Huron Scuba. Dave remains
a big part of the team and manages all aspects
of training and travel, Rachael is involved as
one of the lead trainers for DAN and CGA
programs as well as the main go to person for
operational questions. With the help and
support of the Kaspers, the amazing team working
at the store and our greatest asset - the Huron
Scuba Dive Team community of customers, divers,
snorkelers and travellers, Brian looks forward
to the next 13 successful years in Ann Arbor!
 Huron
Scuba's full service dive center,
tucked next to the busy I-94 freeway on the west
side of Ann Arbor, has over 1300 square feet of
well-stocked displays with informative signage
to supplement the information you'll receive
from our knowledgeable staff. Are you a hands-on
person? Feel free to pick up that regulator to
check the purge button, push the buttons on the
dive computers, and unzip all the compartments
of the dive bags. Our deep inventory of
the most current equipment from big
names like Scubapro, Aqualung, O'Neill, Dive
Rite, and
much more means we're sure to have what you
want in stock - our store rooms are nearly the
size of our display floor!
 Huron
Scuba has trained over 3500 divers with
a perfect safety record. Our three
classrooms provide a comfortable, modern
environment for the "dry" portion of your
training. Digital projectors enable dynamic
academic review sessions, and our classrooms
contain ample hands-on tools such as first aid
manikins, AED and Oxygen training units, and
concrete training aids to illustrate key
concepts in scuba diving. While relaxing between
class sessions, enjoy complimentary
coffee, water or pop, and watch DVDs of
our Dive Team group trips on the in-classroom TV
monitors.
For pool training sessions, you'll be just
minutes down the road at one of several
pools used by Huron Scuba - including
Slauson, Clague, and Forsythe middle schools,
the Saline Recreation Center, and Eastern
Michigan University.
Our open water
training sessions are held at a variety
of locations - from Gilboa Quarry (near Findlay,
Ohio), to Spring Mill Pond (near Brighton,
Michigan), to the shipwrecks of the Great Lakes
and the reefs of the Caribbean and Pacific. We
offer all levels of training locally as well as
on our organized group trips. As a special
service to our open water students, Huron Scuba
now provides warm TruWest parkas
for use by our students during surface intervals
to prevent chilling on windy or cool days.
Designed to be worn over a wet wetsuit (or even
drysuit), these Huron Scuba Dive Team "specials"
will keep you cozy and comfortable,
and ready to have fun on ALL
your dives!
As a full-service
professional dive facility, Huron Scuba provides
complete fill station services, including
air, Nitrox, Trimix, Argon, and Oxygen
fills for appropriately trained divers.
We also support other community needs for high
pressure gas fills - including fills for
paintball enthusiasts, race car teams,
and speedboat rescue teams and SCBA and
Scott Air-Pak fills for local
businesses. Our air is tested quarterly, and
you're always welcome to review the test results
that are posted near the fill station.
 Our
repair area is the envy of many a scuba
technician. With three full workbench
repair stations, plus lots of room for
conducting drysuit leak checks, assembling
double cylinders, and other tasks, we can fix
just about anything that comes our way. Our
technicians are trained by the manufacturers and
have years of experience both in scuba repair
and general mechanical troubleshooting.
Huron Scuba has always worked to bring you a
wide range of quality rental equipment
for your local and travel diving as well as
training. Not content with low-end gear that few
divers really use, we instead focus on mid- to
high-end equipment for our rental department.
Weight-integrated BCDs
(including ladies' models) are available, as are
top-end balanced adjustable regulators like the
Aqualung Legend LX and the Scubapro
MK25/S600. We rent both Scubapro and
Suunto wrist-mounted dive computers,
and include gauge clips and octopus retainers on
our rentals to help you maintain the underwater
environment and keep your equipment close at
hand. There's no reason to fear getting cold
when diving locally - we rent 7mm wetsuits in
women's size 4 through 18, and
men's size small through 4XL as
well as kids size 10 to 16. We
also have the largest fleet of rental drysuits
we know of - over 20 drysuit systems
for men and women in several styles and a full
range of sizes. Diving tropical? We rent shorty
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 Huron
Scuba's staff is here to help you with
anything relating to the water. The
best way to find out what best suits your needs
is to consult our staff in person so we can
provide perspective from our many years of
experience in a variety of conditions. Our
weekly staff training brings
all our staff up to speed on the latest about
our classes, travel, merchandise, and other
news. Our staff and instructors have a
wide variety of interests and specialties
- so whether you're interested in underwater
photography, cave diving, marine biology,
identifying reef fish, or snorkeling with your
kids, there's sure to be a kindred spirit at
Huron Scuba.
 Interested
in learning to dive or furthering your dive
knowledge? We offer all levels of basic
and continuing education from
snorkeling to technical diver and PADI
Instructor. Up-to-date information on our
scheduled classes and class offerings (as well
as private classes) are always available on our
website (available for browsing in the store),
on posted whiteboards, and on our detailed
printed class flyers. You'll get full
understanding of the costs as well as time and
equipment requirements before you sign up. Your
student orientation when you sign up will go
through your student course pack including a
detailed course outline and informative handouts
so you know what is expected of you
- and what you can expect from us!
 Huron
Scuba believes divers want to be active - so we
offer a variety of weekend destinations,
warm-water group trips,
individualized travel services, and
social activities to keep you
active even when you're not diving. Local fun
dives led by divemasters and instructors, wine
and cheese tastings, special presentations by
diving experts, movie nights, and more can be
part of your annual dive calendar. Our
print and e-mail newsletters will keep
you informed about events of interest to you
without "flooding" your in-box.
At Huron Scuba, we consider ourselves fortunate
to make a living doing what we love. So,
we give back to the community that supports us.
In Michigan's "down" economy, we support
families in deepest need by sponsoring scuba
splash parties to support the Marine
Corps Toys for Tots program and our
"closest" non-profit and neighbor - the
Interfaith Hospitality Network's Alpha House,
which provides transitional housing and support
for homeless families with children who are
struggling to secure and maintain their own
homes.
 We
also consider local businesses to be a part of
our community, and make conscious choices to
select local businesses and suppliers
for our own business needs whenever possible.
Huron Scuba recognizes that a healthy
environment is good for divers and the
wider community. We support both organized and
"impromptu" environmental efforts including
Project Aware cleanups, river
trash pick-ups, recycling in our own facility,
and removal of debris from dive sites. We
encourage our students and Dive Team members to
be responsible divers from Day One by
emphasizing the need for good buoyancy and
control of your equipment (even in the pool!).
Every day can be Earth Day!
 Huron
Scuba also exerts a positive influence on future
generations of potential divers and policy
makers through in-school presentations
made by our staff and Instructors. Children from
preschool to middle school learn about the
fascinating underwater world and what they as
individuals can do to help keep it healthy for
future generations. We offer Discover
Scuba pool sessions to allow older
children and teens to experience that world for
themselves. Even if they never become divers,
these kids gain respect for the fragility and
importance of our world's aquatic environments.
 Still
want to know more about Huron Scuba? Stop by our
Ann Arbor store, or call us at 734-994-3483, or
email with any questions. Or, just ask around
your friends, neighbors and co-workers - we're
confident that they will give us a positive
recommendation! |
