I Highly Recommend This Shop! As a diver for over 15 years now and with over 150 dives to date as a reference, I have seen and experienced many different instructors and their staff. I'm thrilled to have found Alpha Divers for our 13 year old twins to get their PADI training for their open water certification. Fred is amazing!!!! As a mother first; diver second I feel that they have a solid and great foundation for their future in the joy and appreciation of this incredible sport. Thank you to all involved who made this happen. Alice O. read more

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND! I would trust these guys with my life! I cannot recommend them enough. I reached out to them last may and spoke with Sean over the phone and he was very easy to talk to. I later went in person to pay for the Open water course & he talked with me about all of the information and concerns I had. As I did the class with Fred I overcame fears I had. Sean was patient with me as I had some ear trouble. Fred helped me to face the facts to have control over my dives. I have done dives with them after I was certified to feel more comfortable and I feel great. I cannot wait to get back to it! read more

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They are all really cool, chill dudes. I took a whole semester of SCUBA at UTK and I didn't get certified with UTK because they wanted me to go all the way to Florida for 400$ and that was just for open water certification. This shop is the best way to go and to get lessons as well. I took my open-water dive certification with Fred and he is a real G. They gave me all the gear I needed and gave me a checkout for 200$. It was a super good deal compared to UTK. Anyways, because I didn't take lessons with them I had to learn some other stuff that was not taught to me at UTK. He informed me all about it and talked about the importance of safety and CESA and C=Control and STA, stop think, act. Honestly that all stayed in my head and I only spent a couple of hours with him. I don't remember anything like that from UTK and I took a whole semester. He taught me how to actually get out of dangerous situations and gave really good attention to each of his students. He's a really cool guy to talk with on the surface but once he is under the water he has a whole different energy. He is with you 100% and I felt completely safe with him, way more than I did with my instructor at UTK. I knew he could handle any emergency and that I would learn from my mistakes and not feel embarrassed. If we needed him to repeat instructions he wasted no time, he was with us 100% and I again I felt super safe with him under the water, he is really good with anxious people. We were doing mask skills and I had to take my mask off completely and ngl I choked a bit on the water but I knew he had me and all I had to do was calm down and keep trying to clear the mask. The quarry we went to was really pretty and freaking cold but so worth it. I will definitely further pursue advancements in scuba with them. So Thank you, especially Fred and Sean -Scarlett Sharp read more

Divers beware...So I'm writing this as an outsiders point of view. I am a certified diver. I encouraged a buddy of mine to go get certified to dive and he went with alpha divers. I heard about this place previously because Danny has a great deal of knowledge but sadly the instructor my buddy got was Fred, his brother. I got very concerned when my buddy was getting info from Fred on the times he should wait to drive to OH from Knoxville after his checkout dives as Fred was referring him to the navy dive tables instead of sticking with what padi & DAN both advise which is the 12hr & 18hr rules. I had to 3 way DAN just so my buddy could see why this is dangerous information as Fred is not a medical professional and he is not training navy divers so he shouldn't be giving out that advice. Then my buddy had asked if I could join them on his checkout dives for moral support and just so there was another diver in the water to have eyes on people. The response I got was and I quote "yes she can come but if she gets in my way or interrupts my class or disrupts my students in any way shape or form I will pop her one" which because I was aware he is retired Military this was referring to shooting me which I found out it was meaning he was going to hit me not shoot me and he said I need to chill out and not be a snowflake and that I must be a Karen. This didn't sit to well with me. I then found out that this instructor was hitting his students if they did something wrong/incorrect and told the students he will be alot worse in the quarry when doing the checkout dives. Then I found out that Fred was telling his students he wants them to touch the boat that is at 63-65ft when they go to the quarry as all his students do it and it isn't a big deal and was instructing them to not tell his brother as Danny is a stickler for the rules. This gets students in a bad mindset that it's not a big deal to break the rules/guidelines set forth because if you can do that on open then why not on advanced and go to 110 or hell when you do deep why not 145 cause remember it's not a big deal in Fred's eyes. The final straw was when I found out Fred is gaslighting his students Into doing a freedive to 20ft in a 7m with no weights and telling my buddy to stop being a big baby that he has kids do it all the time. First off there is no depth requirement from padi and you shouldn't make someone do something they aren't comfortable with. I convinced my friend to pull out from that instructor and request a refund and to report all this to padi. I told him he should contact Danny because surely he would want to rectify this situation but nope, instead he tries to speak on stuff he doesn't know since he wasn't in the call and trys to act like everything their is to padi standards. He basically tried to protect his brother in my opinion. This isn't okay. Danny if you are reading this I hope you start listening to the students about your brother and also call DAN and see why yall shouldn't be using the Navy Dive tables. Furthermore I was there when this student tested out with another instructor and I'm sure that instructor will be doing a p2p on Fred because the issues were evident when the msdt was trying to do the checkout dives. I truly hope you hear these issues and stop trying to defend your brother before he gets someone killed or continues to scare away new divers read more