SCUBA Links to Related Sites and Manufacturers
Gilboa Quarry (Click name to visit Gilboa Quarry home page)
Just an hour and quarter from COSD, a premier dive site for more experienced divers. A variety of underwater sites await the visitor. Typically the water remains colder year round here and the quarry is deeper.
IST Sports Corporation (Click name to visit IST's home page)                 
IST is a manufacturer of fins, masks, regulators, BCD's, snorkels, computers, and wetsuits.
Ikelite (Click name to visit Ikelite's home page)
Ikelite makes underwater lights (also excellent for camping), underwater housing for essentially any camera or video camera made, has digital still and video sets for underwater use, underwater flash strobes, compasses, and underwater camera cables and connectors.
XS Scuba (Click name to visit XS Scuba home page)                                                  
XS Scuba has superb high quality, rugged dive bags.
SCUBAPRO (Click name to visit SCUBAPRO's home page)
SCUBAPRO and UWATEC are are primary lines of rugged, stylish, and dependable underwater equipment. When you purchase a regulator or other life dependable equipment, you want to know that the parts and service will be available for your equipment both tomorrow and years from now. If this is what you desire in your SCUBA equipment, then SCUBAPRO has to be your choice. 

SCUBAPRO first appeared in the scuba diving world in the early 1960's.  It was guided by two men, Gustav Dalla Valle and Dick Bonin.  They brought to the market many innovations for diving that are still being used today.  The 1964 catalog featured everything the diver could want, including regulators, recompression chambers, and submarines.  In 1965 the first version of the Jet fin first appeared.  After 40 years the fin is still popular with technical and military divers worldwide and is one of the most copied scuba products ever sold.  In 1966 the catalog also added the Automatic Decompression meter, a forerunner to the modern dive computer.  Back mount BC's, weight integrated systems, the Classic style STAB jacket, and other innovations continued to be introduced throughout the years.

UWATEC was founded in 1983 in Hallwil, in the heart of Switzerland. In 1987 they introduced their first dive computer, the Aladin PRO. It was quickly established as the standard in the industry. By the early 1990s, UWATEC was synonymous for diving computers.  Joining Johnson Outdoors and SCUBAPRO in 1997, UWATEC continues to be a leading innovator in the industry.

Today, SCUBAPRO UWATEC remains a premier manufacturer of scuba diving equipment and employs over 400 people in 17 locations spread over 13 countries, covering 4 continents. At least 1 in every 2 employees is a diver and in several countries over 80% are divers, and over a third are instructors. SCUBAPRO is a Johnson Outdoors Inc. company.
Aeris (Click name to visit the Aeris home page)

AERIS was introduced to divers worldwide in 1998. Their objective at that time was to raise the standard of features and technology available in diving computers and they did that. There are several outstanding computers available to meet your diving needs. 

Aeris now offers a complete range of innovative and feature-rich SCUBA and snorkeling equipment. Aeris' goals today are the same as in 1998; to raise the standard of products sold in the diving industry. Each one of their products represents an improvement in performance, aesthetics, function, or value.
SSI- Scuba Schools International (Click name to visit SSI's home page)                  

For over 40 years SSI has been known in the diving industry for providing high quality education and outstanding training materials for divers of all levels.

SSI was founded in 1970 and is the largest school based training agency in the world. In the Spring of 1999, SSI merged with the National Association of Scuba Diving Schools (NASDS founded in 1967) and created a new synergy in the dive industry. The sales and marketing expertise of NASDS, when joined with the renowned educational products of SSI, created a stronger company that is in a better position to serve Dive Centers & Dive Resorts, Dive Professionals and Instructors, and ultimately you, the divers. Together, SSI and NASDS are responsible for a remarkable list of innovations and consequently have been recognized with the highest honors in the diving industry. Some of our most noteworthy accomplishments include:

  • First to require open water classes for certification.
  • First integrated teaching systems.
  • First to require six open water dives for certification.
  • Created a sales and marketing program to benefit retailers.
  • First to require visual inspections of cylinders.
  • Introduced a buoyancy compensator device.
  • First to introduce an alternate second-stage.
  • First full-motion video training system.
  • Development of an equipment inspection program.
  • Development of the Risk Awareness system.
  • First to develop a Total Dive Log and complete Recognition System.
  • First to develop a Global Online Divers Network System.
  • Global ISO Certification
 
Circleville Twin Quarries (Click name to visit Circleville Twin Quarries home page)
Just 45 minutes from COSD, Circlville Twin Quarries in one of our favorite locations for Open Water Checkouts and many of the Advanced Open Water classes. For new divers this is an ideal location. The water warms quickly in late spring and into summer with August and September diving just like being in Florida. Throughout late August into September divers can be rewarded seeing quarter sized freshwater jellyfish