Welcome to Aqua Safaris SCUBA Center Located
in Santa Cruz, on California’s sunny Central
Coast, just minutes from the incredible Monterey
Bay National Marine Sanctuary and world-class
diving. Our philosophy is to provide you with
all of your diving needs as your diving interests
grow and change. We outfit you with the best
possible equipment within your budget at the
lowest prices.
In business since 1987, Aqua Safaris is operated
by David and Dede Houghton, husband and wife
and highly knowledgeable SCUBA instructors along
with a team of more than 20 divers selling and
servicing equipment, teaching classes and leading
trips.
Aqua Safaris is truly a full-service SCUBA
center, offering complete lines of top-quality
equipment, diving and safety instruction, air
and Nitrox fills, exotic dive travel adventures
and Monterey Bay excursions. We believe that
doing it right will earn your business again
and again.
Our SCUBA equipment experts are all divers
with expertise in many diving specialties including:
- Technical diving
- Cold-water diving
- Deep diving
- Nitrox, Trimix and Argon systems
- Spearfishing
- Underwater photography
- Underwater lighting systems
- Dive travel
We not only provide the equipment, we help you
set it up, adjust it to fit and provide special
training in its use as needed! We sell equipment
from dozens of manufacturers (see on-line store
manufacturers
listing). Many manufacturers do not allow
on-line sales of their products, and our on-line
product listings are a fraction of what we sell
in our retail store.