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TRI-STATE DIVING
Making Diving Safe And Adventurous ANDI (Instructor Development Center)
Gary "Seal" Thompson MDEA Instructor Evaluator - IE1650 28300 Little Floyd Lake Road 1-888-SCUBA DO |
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| LAKES AREA DIVING The Detroit Lakes area, with its 412 lakes within 20 miles, offers some of the best freshwater diving in the world. Its glacial formed lakes give divers beautiful, clean water that presents an escape into another world. Many of the area lakes contain an array of artifacts from the region's history. Bison skulls and bones that date to 13,000 years old, to items from the late 1800's to present (including tools from the logging era, tools from the icing harvest, old outboard motors, bottles, endless fishing tackle, and more), are there for the divers to relish. Please enjoy these treasures by leaving them on the bottom for other divers to see. Tri-State Diving offers Discovery dives on weekends, on our 25' Aqua Sport dive boat, to our area lakes where divers can take pleasure in diving new sites and meeting other people with the same interest. Throughout the summer the dive center hosts a bi-weekly evening tailgate dive, where a dive is made in an area lake and then everyone enjoys a cookout on the beach. Winter finds divers taking a plunge into the icy depths below the ice to seek out visibility that can exceed 100 feet. A 14X16 foot heated shelter is placed on the ice for divers to descend through, allowing the divers and tenders to keep warn before and after the dives. MISSION Your diving education is very important to us in making you a safe and conscientious diver. All our staff at Tri-State Diving will do everything possible to make your entry into the underwater world a safe and pleasurable transition. We pride ourselves on keeping our staff-to-student ratio the smallest in the area. Our upper level classes have the same quality of professional training to further raise your level of confidence and skill. INSTRUCTOR STAFF |
DIVE CENTER Opening in 1987 at its present location, Tri-State Diving has continued to support the divers in the Lakes area by continuing to improve on its services and inventory. Our dive center has stayed on the cutting edge of technology both in equipment and training. Services offered are: a retail display, complete line of rental gear, repair of most brands of dive equipment, compressor and cascade system sales, hydrostatic testing, all levels of instruction, and world wide dive travel. Tri-State Diving teaches scuba classes in communities from Willmar to the Canadian border in Minnesota, and the border cities in North Dakota. We are one of the few dive centers that hold the distinction of being a full instructor development center, meaning, that we can teach all levels of training through instructors on-site. We teach private scuba diving lessons and weekend courses for those that cannot not work into our regularly scheduled classes. MDEA
commercial division's lightweight commercial dive training allows
you to take a hobby and turn it into a vocation. The program includes: Tender
One, Tender Two, Surface Supplied Air, Cutting, Welding, Hazmat, and Bridge
Inspection. MDEA's commercial classes are modular, so this helps you decide
what will work best for the type of work you want to participate in. Please
inquire about any of your training needs. CHRIS LEE
Chris started his diving career while he was still in high school. Chris took his open water class in 1997 and completed his advanced training also that year. In Recreational diving he holds specialty ratings in; Night, Deep, Ice, Dive First Responder, Dry Suit, Rescue Diver, Scuba Diving Equipment Repair Technician, and Nitrox. Chris is also a dive master and a level one instructor. Chris's commercial dive credentials include; Dive tender 1 and 2, Underwater cutting procedures, Haul Inspection repair technician, basic commercial equipment repair technician, advanced commercial equipment Technician, Haz-Mat Diving specialist, Nitrox gas blender, dive operations supervisor, and basic oxygen Administrator. Chris has been diving for eight years, being involved in most of the salvage and commercial diving activities Tri-State Diving has worked on.
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DIVE TRAVEL For the past 14 years "Seal" has taken dive groups all over the world, including such destinations as the South Pacific, Central America, and the Caribbean. We have ventured into shipwrecks in Chuuk Lagoon, some of the world's best wall diving in Cozumel, to doing liveaboards in the Bahamas and Belize. If traveling with a group or wanting to do a dive vacation on your own, we here at the dive center will help make that trip a positive experience to remember for years to come. Most travel agents don't specialize in dive travel, therefore, they are unable to make your dive vacation safe and fun. We always work hard to get you the best price for your dollar without compromising your enjoyment and safety. We have at our disposal some of the best dive operators in the world to assist you once on site, to help you with any of your vacation needs. Let us put your next dive vacation together for you.
CLASSES OFFERED OPEN WATER ADVANCED OPEN WATER NIGHT DIVER DEEP DIVER DRY SUIT DIVER UNDER WATER SPEAR FISHING UNDER WATER NAVIGATION UNDER WATER PHOTOGRAPHY UNDER WATER VIDEO BASIC NITROX DIVER SOLO DIVER ICE DIVER SEARCH & RECOVERY DIVE – FIRST RESPONDER RESCUE DIVER DIVE MASTER ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR |
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