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I was certified in my teens, and after decades without diving, I took my 11-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son to High Plains Scuba for certification for them and a skill update for me. I'm so pleased that I did.
All the folks at the shop were delightful, without exception. According to my daughter, "They're just nice people." However, our instructor, Karl, has been exceptional. I like to think that my children are bright and coachable, but Karl is an outstanding coach and teacher. He deftly balanced seriousness with humor and translated complex concepts into language the kids could understand; he taught them more about physics and physiology in a few hours than they'll learn in months of school. At the same time, he was very sensitive to the children's needs, adapting and improvising along the way. Frankly, I think he's overqualified, and he'd have made a legendary science teacher.
We completed our classroom and pool work at the shop a couple months ago and just arrived home from a High Plains Scuba trip to Homestead Crater to complete checkout dives. I wouldn't make the trip just to dive the crater, but it was the perfect place for checkout dives: comfortable water, adequate visibility, few distractions, and a trip focused just on diving skills.
Our experience with the shop has been unequivocally, uniformly positive, and I will have no qualms with working with any of their instructors if I can convince the kids to advance their diving education; the other instructors on the trip to the Crater were wonderful. When the kids are ready to learn more, we'll ask for Karl, but if that doesn't work out, I'm still confident that we'll get a first-rate education from first-rate people.
Also, FWIW, this is my first written online review of any kind. I've consumed a lot of products an services worthy of positive reviews, but this time, I'd have felt guilty for not encouraging others -- especially parents -- to use High Plains Scuba. - via 