Scuba diving, freediving, and snorkeling are all sports that require a fair amount of gear. In the case of scuba diving, this is particularly true—calling it "gear-intensive" doesn't fully capture the extent of it!
Scuba equipment is life-support gear, specifically designed to enable humans to safely explore underwater environments that are otherwise inhospitable to us.
Choosing the right gear for your body size, shape, and skill level is a crucial step in the process.
**Snorkel gear used on the surface of the water must fit and be of the right resilience and durability to insure a good experience.
**Scuba gear used underwater is life-support equipment.
The difference between the right fit and the wrong fit can drive the success of your vacation at worst. At best, the gear you select can save your life.
At Carolina Dive Center, we offer a wide range of gear for rent or purchase, including masks, fins, booties, wetsuits, lights, hoods, gloves, BCDs, regulators, and dive computers. Additionally, we carry scuba accessories such as surface marker buoys, noise makers, dive books, slap straps, defogger, slates, mouthpieces, ear drops, ear plugs, and much more—there’s no shortage of options.
Before you invest in your life-support equipment, we want to ensure that you fully understand, appreciate, and feel comfortable with your gear. That’s our mission.
Before we add a new BCD, regulator, or dive computer to our inventory, one of our team members personally tests it for an extended period to ensure its quality and performance. We believe in what we sell, which is why all of us—owners, staff, and instructors—dive with the gear we offer.
"Simply put it, this dive shop is awesome. The staff and fellow divers here are second to none, and this dive center does a fantastic job in building a local community. Highly recommend a stop by, they have a great selection of products on top of their top tier dive instructors. Pricing wise, everything is black and white, straight to the point. They are a great honest local business."