Woods & Water

Woods & Water

124 Edwards Ave
33510 Brandon
FL - United States

Since 1984, Woods & Water has been offering a variety of SCUBA diving certifications. We offer lessons from Beginner to the Instructor Level. Our philosophy is to have fun while maintaining professionalism and safety. You’ll have an enjoyable and enriching experience while learning a new craft so you can confidently and safely explore the beauty of our underwater world!

Woods & Water and its team is dedicated to your success and to make diving a lifetime of adventure through high quality training. The instructor will guide you at your own pace to a level of proficiency that ensures your continued enjoyment of the sport. We guarantee you enjoy diving through small classes, flexible program schedules, individual tuition and unlimited water time!

Woods & Water is here to help you make informed purchasing decisions that enable you to attain your personal diving goals. Family-owned and operated, Woods & Water has had over 36 years to experience many different brands of equipment. We have been around long enough to know what works best. The brands we carry are the brands we use. These are the brands we trust for Quality, Performance, and Value. With our knowledge, experience, and love of the sport, you know you can trust us to make sure you’re properly equipped for the type of dives you’ll be making and that your equipment is functioning properly. SCUBA equipment is serviced on our premises by our trained technicians. You’ll get the best service when you stop by the oldest and most trusted dive store in Hillsborough County.

Your happiness with our services is very important to us, that’s why Woods & Water places value over price. You’re guaranteed to get the best combination of products and services at an excellent price. If you find a better deal, after enrolling in our class and purchasing one of our equipment packages or total diving systems, we will match our competitor’s price! But our guarantee doesn’t stop there – we will also give you a specialty course of your choice at NO CHARGE! Visit our website and join us on Facebook and Instagram to stay connected!

Courses and Events

Open Water Diver Evening Course

Looking for an adventure? Let's go diving! Woods & Water's prestigious Scuba course contains all of the knowledge, Skills, and Experience required to transform you into the most confident and safest diver possible. The course consists of interactive classroom presentations, practice pool sessions, and experience dives. The Course includes your SSI Digital Learning Material, all academic sessions, all pool sessions, and a minimum of 4 open water dives for certification, as well as the use of our Class Scuba equipment (BC, Regulator, and Tanks). Course Price: $479 Students are responsible for their own Personal Snorkeling System to include Mask, Snorkel, Boots, Fins, Weight Belt, Weights, and Surface Marker Bouy. Woods & Water has Class and Equipment packages that are designed to get you the equipment needed for class at prices that can't be beat! The more you buy, the more you save! Ask about our FREE SCUBA Lessons Deal! When you purchase the Total Diving System needed to be a Diver in one of our Free Scuba Lessons Packages, including your SSI Digital Learning Material, Personal Snorkeling System, and Air Delivery System, your Open Water Diver Course is FREE! The best and safest way to learn how to dive is on your own personally fitted high quality Life Support System. Open Water Diver Evening Course Schedule: Week 1 Tuesday night 6pm-9pm: Academic Review, Chapters 1-3. Wednesday night 6pm-9pm: Pool Skills! Thursday night 6pm-9pm: Pool Skills! Saturday 7:30am-5pm: Open Water Dives 1 & 2, Diving at Lake Denton! (Dive Site Upgrades are available) Weekend 2: Tuesday night 6pm-9pm: Academic Review, Chapters 4-6. Wednesday night 6pm-9pm: Pool Skills! Thursday night 6pm-9pm: Pool Skills! Saturday 7:30am-5pm: Open Water Dives 3-5, Diving at Lake Denton and Certification! (Dive Site Upgrades are available) Open Water Dives and Certification dives are included in your course tuition and are scheduled at Lake Denton to build repetition and dive site confidence during training. This confidence will make you the safest diver possible and will prepare you for other fun dive sites after certification. Thru our 42 years of experience teaching scuba lessons, we found that keeping the dive site the same for both diving days had the most success in creating safe and confident divers. We would love for you to enjoy your first dives in the ocean without having one of our amazing instructors evaluate you on your Scuba training skills! Lake Denton is for training, save the other dive sites for the FUN! We have multiple regularly scheduled fun dives every weekend! If this schedule doesn't quite work for you, we also offer Weekend Classes, Private Lessons, and Semi-Private Lessons. Interested in Nitrox? Save $50 and Bundle Nitrox for longer and safer dives! (Regularly $150). Nitrox extends your bottom time, shortens your surface interval between dives, and extends our bottom time for all repetitive dives. Bundling Nitrox with your Open Water Course is the most convenient way to get Nitrox Certified. We are excited to show you the wonderful world of Scuba Diving! Call Woods & Water to register or for more information, or stop by for a visit, we can help you best when we are doing it in person. (813) 684-0122

14 April +13 More
€415.82
$479.00

Night Diving & Limited Visibility

Become an SSI Night Diver! Night diving requires different skills from diving during the day. The SSI Night Diving and Limited Visibility specialty is the best way to learn about night diving and practice the techniques you will need to become a safe and confident night diver. In this program, you will be provided with all the knowledge and skills you need to safely and comfortably dive at night or in limited visibility conditions. With a combination of online learning and open water training dives, you will learn how to enter and exit the water, use specialized equipment, and how to communicate with your buddy easily at night or in limited visibility. Upon completion, you will earn the SSI Night Diving and Limited Visibility specialty certification and be ready to go night diving with confidence. Facts and Training Standards: Minimum Age 10 Amount of Academic Sessions 5 Amount of Open Water Sessions 2 Maximum Training Depth 30 m / 100 ft Suggested duration (h) 5-10 Discover a hidden world: Here are the benefits you can expect from attending this training program: Discover creatures that are only seen at night Learn about specialized equipment like lights and reels Learn to plan and safely complete your night or limited visibility dive adventures Certification Prerequisites Open Water Diver certification Pre-registration is required so you can gain access to the digital home study material and be prepared for class. Call or Visit for more information, to get access to the digital learning material, or to sign up. Eddie Ciesla Woods & Water (813) 684-0122 124 Edwards Ave. Brandon, FL 33510 www.woodsandwaterosc.com ed@woodsandwater.biz

08 April +12 More
€155.39
$179.00

Open Water Diver Weekend Course

Looking for an adventure? Let's go diving! Woods & Water's prestigious Scuba course contains all of the knowledge, Skills, and Experience required to transform you into the most confident and safest diver possible. The course consists of interactive classroom presentations, practice pool sessions, and experience dives. The Course includes your SSI Digital Learning Material, all academic sessions, all pool sessions, and a minimum of 4 open water dives for certification, as well as the use of our Class Scuba equipment (BC, Regulator, and Tanks). Course Price: $479 Students are responsible for their own Personal Snorkeling System to include Mask, Snorkel, Boots, Fins, Weight Belt, Weights, and Surface Marker Bouy. Woods & Water has Class and Equipment packages that are designed to get you the equipment needed for class at prices that can't be beat! The more you buy, the more you save! Ask about our FREE SCUBA Lessons Deal! When you purchase the Total Diving System needed to be a Diver in one of our Free Scuba Lessons Packages, including your SSI Digital Learning Material, Personal Snorkeling System, and Air Delivery System, your Open Water Diver Course is FREE! The best and safest way to learn how to dive is on your own personally fitted high quality Life Support System. Open Water Diver Weekend Course Schedule Weekend 1: Friday night 6pm-9pm: Academic Review, Chapters 1-3. Saturday and Sunday 8am-4pm: Pool Skills! Weekend 2: Friday night 6pm-9pm: Academic review, Chapters 4-6. Saturday and Sunday 7:30am-5pm: Diving and Certification! If this schedule doesn't quite work for you, we also offer Weeknight Classes, Private Lessons, and Semi-Private Lessons. Interested in Nitrox? Save $50 and Bundle Nitrox for longer and safer dives! (Regularly $150). Nitrox extends your bottom time, shortens your surface interval between dives, and extends our bottom time for all repetitive dives. Bundling Nitrox with your Open Water Course is the most convenient way to get Nitrox Certified. We are excited to show you the wonderful world of Scuba Diving! Call Woods & Water to register or for more information, or stop by for a visit, we can help you best when we are doing it in person. (813) 684-0122

10 April +8 More
€415.82
$479.00

Frequently Serviced Dive Sites

Jims Dive Shop, 33708 St Petersburg

★★★★☆ Tug Orange (Wreck)

The Tug Orange is an 80ft tug boat that sits upright in 45ft of water. It is part of the Pinellas County Artificial Reef Program. The tug was built in 1903 as an 80-foot long, steel-hulled harbor tug. Orange was a workhorse used to push railroad barges in the New York Harbor.

Jims Dive Shop, 33708 St Petersburg

★★★★☆ KP Hole Park

KP Hole is a Florida County park open to divers and snorkelers to explore the spring-fed Rainbow River. This is a spring-fed dive so water temps will be 72 degrees year-round and the water will be very clear. This site has great amenities like concessions for food, showers, and restrooms. Admission is $15.00.

Kristen G. (#3319219)

★★★★☆ Hudson Grotto

Hudson Grotto is a prehistoric limestone sink, most likely the oldest inland body of water in Pasco County. This unusual water feature is part fresh, part salt water and descends to depths over 100 feet.

Travis M. (#4179003)

★★★★☆ SS Benwood (Wreck)

The Benwood is a 360ft World War II wreck that sank April 9, 1942. She was carrying a cargo of phosphate rock and running blacked out to avoid German U-boats that were rumored to be in the area. The ship Robert C. Tuttle was also running blacked out and the two ships collided.

Discover Diving, 14043 Depew

★★★★☆ USCG Duane (Wreck)

The Duane is a retired Naval ship that was sunk November 26, 1987 as an artificial reef approximately one mile south of Molasses Reef in Key Largo. This is an advanced to expert dive only!

Heroes Dive Center, 34698 Dunedin

★★★★★ Buford Spring

Buford Spring is located in a swampy area of the Chassahowitzka Wildlife Management Area in Hernando County, FL. Divers must check in at an iron ranger at the main entrance off US 19 and pay a $3.00 daily fee. The maximum depth is about 50 mtr/165 feet at the siphoning downstream end of the main cavern/cave.

Irene E. (#3967487)

★★★★★ Ed’s Pool

Private Training Pool Site for Woods & Water in Brandon, FL and all of their affiliated SSI Instructors.

Halbert G. (#2644560)

★★★★☆ Devils Den

Devil’s Den is a fresh water spring with the temperature being 72 degrees Fahrenheit all year long. Here you will find ancient rock formations with stalactites, fossil beds, and much more. With swim throughs and platforms it’s a great place to practice buoyancy and skills.

Available Services in the Dive Center

Programs

Snorkel Diver
Freediving
Mermaid
Ecology
Scuba
Extended Range (XR)
Rebreather
Emergency Training
Swim
Lifeguard

Dives

Shore Dives
Boat Dives
Extended Range Dives
Classified Dives
Freediving
Wreck Dives
Snorkel Tours

Gas Fills

Air
Nitrox Dive
Oxygen

Rental

Dive Computer
Equipment
Photo and Video Dive

Services

Regulator
Dive Computer
Buoyancy Compensators
Dry Suit
Neoprene suits
Cylinders
Rebreather

Payment Method

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Opening Hours

Monday12:00 - 19:00
Tuesday12:00 - 19:00
Wednesday12:00 - 19:00
Thursday12:00 - 19:00
Friday12:00 - 19:00
Saturday10:30 - 18:00
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Opening Hours

Monday12:00 - 19:00
Tuesday12:00 - 19:00
Wednesday12:00 - 19:00
Thursday12:00 - 19:00
Friday12:00 - 19:00
Saturday10:30 - 18:00
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