Outdoor Sports Shop Scuba & Kayak
Center, LLC.
467 Route 247,
Greenfield Township, Pa. 18407
570 222-2501
Summer Hours: June 11 to August 23
Tuesday thru Thursday 11:00am to
6:00pm
Friday
11:00am to 8:00pm
Saturday
9:00am to 6:00pm
Closed Sunday and Monday
Hours: August 26 to June 10
Tuesday thru Thursday 11:00am to
2:00pm & 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Friday
11:00am to 2:00pm & 4:00pm to 8:00pm
Saturday
9:00am to 6:00pm
Closed Sunday and Monday
Outside of our normal business hours
We understand that people are busy so if you can't make it during these hours please contact us for an appointment. We are also here working outside of our normal business hours at times so if you are driving by and see that we are here feel free to stop in.
More about us
Joe (Owner - NAUI, SDI, ERDI Instructor)
When I was growing up watching The
Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, I knew that someday I w
as
going to dive. The first thing I did once I was driving and working, was
sign up for a scuba course. I remember like it was yesterday my first time
in the water in that class. It was an incredible experience and I knew I
was hooked. Diving the wrecks and waters off Long Island was where you
would have found me back then. Or I may have been hanging out at the dive
shop. You may have heard the term dive shop groupie. A few years
later, I became an instructor and worked in the very shop where I took my first
class. Later on I accepted a job as a firefighter in South Florida.
The firefighter schedule was ideal since it allowed me to remain working in the
dive industry. If I was not at the fire station there was a good chance
that I was either diving the reefs and wrecks off the coast, or working at a
local dive shop. I was also a member of the fire department Dive Accident Recovery Team. For
most of this time I was the Dive Team Coordinator. Hence the ERDI
affiliation with the shop. Now I train others to do emergency response
diving.
After 20 years of service, I retired from the fire department as a Lieutenant and moved back up north. I worked with a shop north of here, and soon the time was right for me to open my own dive shop. I have instituted the programs I have used along the way along with some that I have been storing in my head for years to pass on this incredible sport to the people of Northeast Pennsylvania. I do so with the passion of that little kid in front of the TV watching Jacques Cousteau.
One of the wonderful things about scuba diving by the way, is the wide variety of activities within the sport. I enjoy many of them and it is always a great feeling to pass them along to my students. I also enjoy providing opportunities for divers to take the plunge as much as possible, all year long. This repetition along with their training is what makes comfortable, competent divers, and these are the divers that stand to have the most fun. After all, fun is the reason most of us get into this sport. I love sharing my passion for diving so feel free to contact me anytime.
Take care and as NAUI says "JUST DIVE"
Somewhere off the coast of South Florida around the late eighties.