• Scuba Diving Instruction & Certification - P.A.D.I.
• Guided Boat Diving Trips - Day Or Night
• Complete Dive Shop-Sales, Rentals, & Repairs
• 4 hr. Intro Scuba Diving Course
• Specialty Courses In Underwater Navigation, Night Diving, Wreck Diving, Photography, Deep Diving, Search & Recovery
• Contract Rates For Professional Organizations Requiring Regular Training & Certification

Discover The Many Unique Advantages Of Ozark Diving

The water never freezes over in Bull Shoals Lake so you can dive year round. Average winter water temperature is in the 50's, in the spring its in the 70's, and in the summer its in the 80's. Visibility is excellent and is typically 20 to 40 feet minimum. There's a nine month spearfishing season for walleye, crappie, and catfish, with year round spearfishing for gar, carp, and drum. Exciting dive sites, like 200' rock walls pockmarked with caverns, huge underwater forests of oak and hickory, long gravel points scattered with fish, hundreds of man-made brush piles holding a wide variety of fish, and sunken farm implements make diving in Bull Shoals Lake a true adventure.  

Special Events & Instruction

Every July we hold a spearfishing tournament. This year it will be held on Saturday, July 19. Every Friday night during the summer we run a pontoon boat for night diving conducted by "Johnnie the Armadillo, our dive instructor (who's real name is Johnnie Arellano). We rent masks, fins, snorkels, tanks, regulators, compensators, belts, spear guns, and wet suits. And we refill tanks. We conduct a wide range of dive courses including 4 day open water, rescue diver, 2 day advanced open water, dive master, advanced plus, and a four-hour introductory course. We conduct several guided day and night tours on Bull Shoals Lake. If you are with a law enforcement group, search & rescue group, or other professional organization that needs training and certification on a regular basis, we offer contract and group rates. We can provide boats, diving gear, lodging, meals, and shuttle services for your organization. We also offer houseboat rental packages for divers. Please request our current brochure for details. At right is Dive Shop manager Ricky Eastwold with customers along the bluffs of Bull Shoals Lake.

About Johnnie "Armadillo" Arellano,
Master Scuba Instructor

When it comes to scuba diving, there's little Johnnie has not done. A graduate of the P.A.D.I. College, he is certified to instruct the following P.A.D.I. courses: Advanced Open Water Program; Advanced Plus; Medic First Aid; Rescue Diver; Divemaster; Master Scuba Diver; Altitude Diver; Boat Diver; Drift Diver; Dry Suit Diver; Equipment Specialist; Multilevel Diver; Night Diver; Research Diver; Underwater Hunter; Underwater Naturalists; Underwater Navigator; Underwater Photographer; Peak Performance Buoyancy; Underwater Videographer; Deep Diver; Search & Recovery Diver; and Wreck Diver. Johnnie has over twenty years of scuba experience combining ocean, inland, deep dive, and swift water dives. He has the unique ability to teach a very serious topic with a delightful tongue-in-cheek approach.

Search & Recovery Specialty Training

We offer special rates to law enforcement teams and other groups seeking search and recovery training. We tailor the programs to your group's special training requirements, such as blackwater, deep water, etc. Our prices are very competitive, the training is excellent, and the conditions in Bull Shoals Lake are near perfect for year around training. Call or email Johnnie for details.