A-1 Scuba and Travel Aquatics Center

Since 1959 our family owned business has delivered the very best of diving education, travel, and product selection. Recognized as “an industry leader“ our goal is to provide exceptional service and exceed our customers’ expectations. New divers will be taught the necessary knowledge and skills to dive safely with confidence and experienced divers can choose from a large number variety of continuing education and professional leadership courses.

We are the region’s largest and longest established state-of-the-art diving facility with the amenities necessary for a quality experience. Some of our highlights include a beautiful indoor swimming pool with a ceiling lift for those needing assistance in/out of the water, ADA bathroom, elevator, award-winning service department, group travel department, huge retail center education department that can’t be beat. We offer several adaptive diving programs and work directly with a local spinal cord/head injury center, the Veterans Administration, Center for the Blind, and others.

We are the exclusive diving partner of the Denver Downtown Aquarium and offer various SSI dive training programs including Open Water dives, Try Scuba, Scuba Review, and a large variety of specialties. Our most unique course is our SSI Aquarium Eco Diver Course. Students get to apply the information they learned in the various Ecology Courses (Turtle, Shark, Ray, and Marine) and Fish ID courses in two exceptional diving environments at the Aquarium. Our many public diving programs at the aquarium include an amazing Shark Cage Experience, Swim with the Fish, Dive with the Fish and Dive with the Sharks. The local papers have rated it as “one of the best places to go in Denver.“