Last Year Was Pretty Awesome For DWF
Last year DWF certified over 100 students in lots of different classes. This earned me a PADI Elite Instructor award for 2016. 100 certs is a year is a heck of a milestone. I’d like to...
Category: PADI
DWF Celebrated Valentines Day With One Of His Greatest Loves
This winter hasn’t been nearly as bad as in recent years, but still a little too cold to hit the water in a wetsuit. But that didn’t stop a recent class of 5 intrepid...
DWF Finishes Up His Last CW Dives Of The Year
DWF finished up the confined water portion his last Open Water class of the year last night. We had 7 students total for this class. Flanked by the always awesome fellow instructor (serving as...
DWF Goes Deep @ Dutch Springs
Today was the last day of the season @ Dutch Springs and DWF was there to certify a couple excited Deep Diver students. It was a brisk 60 (or so) degrees F at the surface,...
Another weekend, Another OW Class Gets Their (Water) Wings
This weekend, Columbia Scuba welcomes 6 brand spankin’ new PADI Open Water Scuba Divers into the world of scuba diving. With the help of fellow MSDT “Pro-Dive” Serif, we each worked with our classes...
Those Megalodon Shark Tooth Trips Just Got More Interesting
Hey Kids! DiveWithFrank is now certified to teach the PADI Megalodon (Shark) Tooth Fossil Diver distinctive specialty. What better way to get ready and really enjoy one of my upcoming Wreck Diving and Shark...
DWF Celebrates Halloween By Killing A Few Zombies
Let me be the first to congratulate Columbia Scuba‘s 8 newest PADI Zombie Apocalypse Divers! This week DWF had his biggest Zombie Apocalypse Diver Class evah! Assisted by my awesome DMiT Stu, we kicked...
DWF May Have 99 Problems But His Dry Suit Class Ain’t One
Congratulations to Columbia Scuba‘s 2 newest PADI Dry Suit Specialty divers! We had Hyde’s Quarry pretty much to ourselves today to take the students’ newly acquired dry suit skills for a spin. Down at...
October Zombie Apocalypse Diver Class
Hey Kids, The next PADI Zombie Apocalypse Diver course will be held on October 21st and 22nd. Classroom will be Friday, October 21st. Open Water will be Saturday, October 22nd. What is the PADI...
DWF Got Old(er) This Weekend
DWF celebrated his **th birthday this weekend by certifying 7 brand new PADI Open Water divers! Last week the class finished up our confined water dives as well...
DWF spent an awesome weekend at Dutch Springs
Congratulations to Columbia Scuba’s newest PADI Advanced Open Water Divers! We spent a fantastic weekend up at Dutch Springs, PA taking 5 different PADI Specialties for a spin! We sampled Peak Performance Buoyancy Underwater Navigation...
Night Diver
Who should take this course? Night diving feels like a completely different world… because it is. Same dive site. Same water. Completely different experience. As the sun goes down, everything changes. Daytime activity fades...
Divemaster
Who Should Take This Course? Love scuba diving and want to take it further? Not just deeper or longer dives, but deeper understanding, stronger skills, and real leadership underwater? The PADI Divemaster course is...
Scuba Review
Is Scuba Review right for you? Haven’t been scuba diving in a while? Feeling a little rusty? Or maybe you’re staring at a pile of gear thinking, “I used to know how this all...
Dry Suit
Stay warm, extend your season, and dive comfortably in cold water. The PADI Dry Suit Diver course with Dive With Frank teaches real-world dry suit skills, buoyancy control, and safe cold-water diving through hands-on training.
Equipment Specialist
The PADI Equipment Specialist course with Dive With Frank teaches you how your scuba gear works, how to maintain it, and how to handle common issues before they end a dive. Classroom-based, practical, and surprisingly useful.
