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Kevin Sun -
4 months ago
15/10 -- This was the best possible place to take my family for first time scuba. My family has varying levels of comfort and experience in the water, and our instructor Frank handled the situation perfectly. He was incredibly patient with my mom who asked a ton of questions about how the whole process worked (scuba can be intimidating at first!) and you could tell that he really cared. We started off with a debrief on safety, equipment, and skills/knowledge. We then moved into the pool to practice what we learned. Though my parents took longer than usual, Frank was able to get all of them comfortable with the equipment and techniques required to do our first dive at 10m.
Juan Carlos, the owner of CSS also came by to see how we were doing. I mentioned to him that I wanted to surprise our mom with a sign underwater since it was her birthday. He understood well what I was going for and helped work with me to set up the surprise.
After that, we boated to the location of our dive. Jose was also with us to help guide our group of 4. He was also very experienced and I was grateful to have him there providing my mom/dad help when needed. We ended up seeing a lot of cool reefs, structures, and fish. We boated back and that was the end of the trip, such a great experience.
We will never forget our first time scuba, but what made it even more memorable was the personable people who worked there, making sure everyone felt comfortable and had a good time. Everyone was friendly and professional. Don't go anywhere else.