Annual service on scuba diving regulators is important to keep this valuable piece of equipment working correctly. We have long offered professional regulator service for all of the name brand regulators. However, many people simply prefer to do their own service. They like the reliability of doing it themselves and many simply enjoy the challenge of show and thoughtful home maintenance.

There have always been factory limitations on the sale of regulator service parts by several of the major scuba manufacturers. We have been examining our dealer agreements, working with our contacts at the factories, and moving toward making regulator parts available for retail purchase by anyone who believe they have the skill and training to complete these repairs themselves. We have recently added a “click-and-buy” page to our website at DiveSports.com that offers a limited supply of regulator repair kits for home or self-service. While we know that everyone understands that they activity requires skill and training, we want those who make the home service choice to have access to the genuine factory parts to do it properly. We now have annual repair kits for several models of regulators and more will be added in the future. We also offer several tools to make home regulator service easier.

Take a moment to visit our limited selection of regulator service kits and if you are inclined to do your own service, we invite you to use our capability to deliver the genuine factory parts. You can visit this page at www.divesports.com/partskits. Please remember that we will be adding more parts kits for additional brands as we work through the contact provisions. If you have any questions, please feel free to give us a toll-free call at (800) 601-DIVE.

Phil Ellis

Now Offering Regulator Service Kits at DiveSports.com

Driving in to work this morning, I was amazed at the people waiting in line to take advantage of the sales at the local “big-box” stores.  Who could possibly want to fight those crowds and push and shove just to save a few dollars on an item that is sold by every other store?  Once at work, I logged into one of my favorite new services and read the article about the death at the Wal-Mart store in New York.  Customers gathering before sun-up, surging forward with enough force to break down the door!  Worst of all, the death of am employee so people can save a little money on a Christmas gift?  Too crazy!

Why not avoid all of the chaos and do something this year that everyone will love.  Give the gift of scuba diving for Christmas!  Dive Sports in Decatur, Alabama offers you a sensible shopping experience for something that everyone should love…..the gift of learning to scuba dive.  Without fighting deadly, door-busting crowds, you can give a scuba diving class to any friend or loved one for only $99.  That’s right….we are offering beginner scuba diving lessions for only $99.  These neat dive training tuition certificates will only be sold during December and can be used for any regularily scheduled Dive Sports beginner open water class in 2009!  How in the world could it possibly be easier?

If you alread have divers in the family and are looking to give some exciting new scuba diving equipment, we have it all for you right here.  You can visit our retail store on the Beltline in Decatur, or you can shop from your computer screen at DiveSports.com.  No matter what you choose, you will get the absolutely best pries and the support you deserve for your scuba diving dollars.

Visit us anytime during December and get great savings on your scuba diving adventure.  Our selection is great, our service is top-notch, and we promose you that scuba diving in 2009 will be fun and healthy.

Phil Ellis

Give the Gift of Scuba Diving for Christmas!

We have set the date for our Dive Sports Annual Christmas Sale and Party for 2008.  This year, we are waiting just a little bit later, offering this great sale on Saturday December 13, 2008.  Like the previous 9 years, we will have lots of food and refreshments, lots of friends and customers, and tons of great sale prices.  We are still working hard to bring in special items for the sale and we certainly will have the lowest prices of the year on the large variety of brand name dive gear we always offer.  Of course, like always, there will be prizes and gift for many.

Watch our website at DiveSports.com and watch this blog for additional details.  No matter what, plan to be here at 8:00 AM on Saturday December 13 for this great sale and party.  We will be open until 8:00 PM, so everyone should be able to find time to visit with us for this great sale and party.

 Phil Ellis

Visit Santa at Dive Sports - Give the Gift of Scuba Diving!

Starting on Black Friday, November 28, DiveSports.com will be hosting a VIP Gear Sale for all of our customers.  We can’t give the details of the sale via our blog or on our website, but we can promise that the savings will be tremendous.  We are expecting to send out the VIP Gear Sale Invitations via email very early next week, so keep an eye on your “inbox” for the invitation….all of the information will be included in the email.  If you haven’t signed up for our email newsletter yet, you can do so by simply typing your email address into the sign-up box in the right hand tool bar of this blog, or by going to our website and finding the email sign up box on the lower left of any page.

The email blast will be the ONLY way to get the information about the VIP Gear Sale, so be sure to sign up now.  Also, encourage your friends and dive buddies to sign up as well.  Keep an eye on your “inbox” and be sure to take advantage of the savings.

Brad Ellis

DiveSports.com — Your Local Scuba Store….No Matter Where You Live! 

In an effort to expand our web presence, DiveSports.com has launched brand new social networking pages on Facebook and Myspace. Our hope is that the increased exposure will boost our online traffic to our primary website, and in turn, boost our sales volume. At the current time, both pages have limited content, but over the next few weeks, I hope to add to those pages with pictures, videos, and other stimulating content.

Both the Facebook and Myspace pages can be viewed without being members of the respective sites, but to get the full benefit of the pages and to see all of the content, you’ll need to sign up as a member. Members who become “fans” of the DiveSports.com pages will be able to post their own pictures and videos right on the DiveSports.com social pages, as well as communicate with other “fans” on the page. If you have pictures or videos that you would like me to post on the site, please just email them to brad@divesports.com and I’ll take care of posting them for you.
As the “fan” base of each of the sites grows over the next couple of months, I’ll be posting specials and promotions exclusively for Facebook and Myspace “fans.” Also, if there is anything you would like to see added to the sites, email me at brad@divesports.com and let me know what you would like to see. I’ll do my best to accomodate the requests.

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Brad Ellis

www.divesports.com

Well, as many of you may have noticed, we have a pretty large gap in the posts on this blog, lasting throughout the entire summer. Sometime in the latter part of April, a “glitch” developed on the WordPress software we were using. This bug created a problem where every blog post we created was given a date of January 1, 1980 at 12:00 midnight. So, for more than 45 days, I made blog posts, thinking all was well, only to later find out about the date problem from a customer. I didn’t notice it myself, because I didn’t affect how I view the site as an administrator.
Cheap internet hosting has its benefits, but it also has its problems. This blog was a “free install” from a very inexpensive web hosting operation. They unfortunately offer no support for WordPress problems, and while there is a ton of public information about WordPress, I was unable to develop a fix until about a month ago. Anyway, I eventually made a copy of all of the blog posts that had been made, erased the entire software from the server, then installed a “supported” copy of WordPress. I then did the copy and paste routine to replace all of the posts. For some reason, I couldn’t recall or copy any of the posts dated January 1, 1980. No big loss….but I would have liked to restore everything.

We will be again making regular posts to the blog. Thanks to all of you that read.

Phil Ellis

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