Aqua Safaris SCUBA CENTER
   Let’s go diving!
postmaster@aquasafaris.com         831-479-4FUN (479-4386)
Aqua Safaris SCUBA Center

6896 Soquel Ave.
Santa Cruz, CA 95062


Store Hours:
Monday–Friday, 10–8;
Weekends, 9–8

Bus Directions

(Click on any of the links at left for more details about Center services and activities.)

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.


    We offer:

Stop by and visit our friendly staff. Whether you live nearby or are just visiting, are new to diving or a veteran, we can serve all your diving equipment, service, training and travel needs.

© 2004 Aqua Safaris, 6896 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95062,   tel. 831-479-4FUN (479-4386),   e-mail postmaster@aquasafaris.com