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About, Contact & Staff Aquatic Sports and Adventures

About Aquatic Sports and Adventures
Business Hours Aquatic Sports and Adventures
Map to Aquatic Sports and Adventures
Staff
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About Aquatic Sports and Adventures

Aquatic Sports and Adventures is the newest PADI Resort Facility #21366 in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico. We are proud to be the newest shop in town and our reception has been superb! Our professional staff strives to offer the highest level of service in Manzanillo. Scuba diving and snorkeling are meant to be fun, relaxing, and enjoyable sports. We want our divers to leave with a positive experience of diving Manzanillo. We will provide you with a gentle introduction to SCUBA but can also provide you with some thrilling advanced diving! We have brought some fresh blood and new approaches to diving in Manzanillo. Businesses with no competition grow lazy and sedentary.

Aquatic Sports and Adventures is a PADI Authorized Resort Facility and meets ISO 24803 Standards as an ISO Recreational Scuba Diving Service Provider. Our staff has 75 years of combined diving experience. We offer all mainline PADI training and 17 Specialty areas.

Aquatic Sports and Adventures will provide you with:

• Service with close attention to detail for your needs and desires
• Enjoyable, fun experiences
• Safety is a major consideration
• Professionalism from an entire staff of PADI PROs
• Our staff is current in First Aid, CPR and Oxygen administration
• Our staff is trained as PADI Rescue Divers
• Our staff gets in the water with you on every dive, snorkel or SCUBA
• A high end compressor with state of the art filtration
• Our breathing air is tested by Trace Analytics in Texas on a regular basis
• Leading edge equipment sterilization program
• A gentle introduction to SCUBA through a Discover Diving Experience
• Eco-friendly diving and protection of our resources
• Equipment rentals, sales, repairs
• Enriched Air Nitrox at 32 and 36%
• Retail sales of important items for a traveling diver
• Ample parking

Business Hours Aquatic Sports and Adventures

Our current hours are 9:00am-4:00pm Mon-Sat (6 days).
Closed on Sundays.
We can be open any day at any time with advanced notice. If you would like to rent tanks or dive on a Sunday just let us know ahead of time.
We are on Central Standard Time.

Map to Aquatic Sports and Adventures

Staff at Aquatic Sports and Adventures

Nathan Peach

Nathan, PADI DM# 302245, is the Corporate Administrator (President), Operations Manager, Accountant and Equipment Repair specialist for Aquatic Sports and Adventures. Nathan has been diving and sailing in the Caribbean, Southern California, Lake Superior and Walt Disney Worlds Epcot Aquarium. He has several years experience in each of the following fields: retail, customer service, hospitality, accounting, web design/programming. He does our retail design, costing, critical thinking, graphics work, web work and programming. Nathan is a PADI Divemaster with ambitions to become an instructor.

Carlos R. Hernández Llamas

Carlos, PADI IDCS #68628, comes with a respectable dive history spanning 20 years as of 2012. Carlos, fluent in Spanish and English, holds a PADI IDCS rating (Instructor Development Course Staff Instructor). Carlos has attended equipment repair courses for most all of the major vendors including Sherwood, Cressi, ScubaPro, Aqualung, Apex, Suunto, Mares and Seaquest. He is a gas blending technician, NACD and IANTD FULL CAVE diver. He is familiar with the Dolphin/Atlantis Re-breather as a specialty diver. He is an Emergency First Response with Automated External Defibrillator Instructor and a DAN Oxygen First Aid Instructor. He is a DOT FSO High Pressure Hazmat Technician and has a lengthy list of PADI Specialty Instructor ratings.

Carlos has been diving and working in Roatan, Honduras, Cabo San Lucas, Southern California (Channel Islands, San Diego Wreck Alley), Cozumel, Manzanillo, Puerto Vallarta, and the Cenotes/Caverns of Akumal, Playa Del Carmen and Tulum. Carlos has logged close to 17,000 dives in his 20+ years. He has lived in London, Paris, Belize, Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas, Houston and Newport, Rhode Island.

Check out Carlos' underwater videos on Youtube!

Capt. Terry Sovil

Captain Terry Sovil is a PADI Master Instructor, #12724, and started diving in 1969, earning his Instructor's rating in 1980 and his Master Instructor rating in 1985. He holds a U.S. Coast Guard Master's License (Captain's License). Experience includes diving extensively in Lake Superior, Midwest lakes & quarries in the USA, all over the Caribbean and Southern California. Terry has an extensive background in training; training development and computers (web design, Project Management, programmer and analyst). He worked for a large national Fortune 500 company in the USA as a Corporate Trainer with responsibility for training and training oversight in the western half of the USA. He was Lead Project Manager for a company developing high end web sites and interactive on-line training. Terry has attended many forums on training and speaking including Bergerac Trainer Talk and the Eliott Masie Learning TRENDS and Masie Center forums. He draws on a broad base of experience in training and diving! He has been diving in Manzanillo since 2009 and knows the dive sites well. He has the highest PADI Instructor rating in Manzanillo.

Tiwi and Blackie

The staff met Blackie (right photo) and Tiwi (like "kiwi" the fruit, left photo) shortly after we moved to Manzanillo in February 2009. They owned the pastor and his family in the church next door. When the pastor had to re-locate to a new church in the summer of 2010, they asked if they could stay with us. After being friends with them for so long we couldn't refuse! So now they faithfully BARK at any and all visitors and guests but are pretty big babies.

Affiliations, Partners, Licenses

Authorized PADI Resort Facility #21366 and we take great pride in our affiliation and meeting the standards PADI requires of one of their representatives.

DAN World Business member and we take great pride in supporting the Divers Alert Network. DAN provides training, publications, alerts and emergency assistance for dive accidents. You should be a DAN member!

We are license by the City of Manzanillo to operate our business.

We have been licensed and sanctioned by the National Tourism Department of Mexico.

Not only do we have the best compressor with the most advanced filtering system in Manzanillo but our compressed air for SCUBA tanks is tested regularly and we display our certificate indicating our air is pure and at acceptable levels for breathing air.

We are the only Dive Shop in Manzanillo that can provide Enriched Air Nitrox to divers that are certified in its use. We can train and certify you in Enriched Air Nitrox diving so you can experience one of the most popular new additions to diving.

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