Western Suburbs of Chicago

[quietlife4me]

After doing a resort dive 25 years ago on my honeymoon, I never went again. (I loved it, my wife hated it) About a month ago I found myself falling down a rabbit hole on the Internet and ended up wanting to scuba dive again. Did some googling and found Sea Level Diving in Crystal Lake, IL......walked in on a random Friday and Art the shop owner spent an hour with me signing me up for OW and picking out the required basics. Given it was October I would have to wait for spring to do my OW dives (I don't have warm water trips planned at the moment), so I went ahead and did the classroom and pool work the following weekend. Got lucky and had a private 2 day class with Sean the instructor (other students no-showed). Which was awesome.

Now just doing the no dive classes over winter, waiting for May 2023 to roll around.

 

[Marie13]

Art is a good guy. Sea Level isn’t too far from my office so I get some fills there, depending on the diving I’ve got planned. Their pool is nice. I’m in the NW burbs myself. Most of my fills come from a shop in West Chicago.

Lots of divers in the Chicago area. I primarily dive with folks in WI (recently did full cave, just got first CCR cert).

Enjoy! There is a lot of good diving in the Midwest. The excellent diving is Great Lakes wrecks.

 

[quietlife4me]

I’m in the NW burbs myself. Most of my fills come from a shop in West Chicago.

Which shop? I live in the St. Charles/Bartlett area a stones throw from the West Chicago line. I liked Art and his facility so much I do the 45min drive instead of the local shops that don't have their own pools.

 

[Marie13]

Which shop? I live in the St. Charles/Bartlett area a stones throw from the West Chicago line. I liked Art and his facility so much I do the 45min drive instead of the local shops that don't have their own pools.

IL Institute of Diving. Art is really nice, but having to wait a week for O2 fills (rebreather diving) is a pain (someone has to come from outside to do them). IID is much more a tech shop and the owner is a rebreather diver himself. Art is good for basic air fills for me.

 

[Tripp]

Welcome to ScubaBoard and Howdy from Texas, although I used to live in Park Ridge. You've got so much fun ahead of you, you don't even know it! Keep us all informed, please!