Best Diving Sites In Chicago Near Me

4worldlovers: Find a passion for diving with learning that is set at your own pace. During confined or open water learning, our staff works to ensure each student receives personalized attention, assistance, and encouragement, with safety as our utmost priority.

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Join us on one of our many guided scuba trips. Our trips strive to find new ways to explore below the surface. Committed to our mission, each trip includes unique conservation efforts distinctly chosen to serve the local region.


We offer several different options for you to become a NAUI certified scuba diver at a steep discount.

Family Discount: Buy two NAUI certifications and get the third certification for 50% off.

Student Discount: Any student with a current & valid student ID or current academic year transcript can purchase an NAUI Open Water Referral course for $275. Open Water Referral covers the eLearning academics & pool training BUT does not cover the four required open water dives to obtain certification. These can be completed elsewhere or with Learn Scuba Chicago for $150 during our open-water season.

Alumni Referral Discount: Were you certified with Learn Scuba Chicago? Did your family and friends get hooked on diving after trying out a Discover Dive? If you refer someone to us and they sign up for an Open Water course, they will get $50 off their certification cost, and you get $50 to apply towards an NAUI Advanced Open Water or NITROX/EANx certification.

Military/Veterans Discount: All Military service personnel receives a 10% discount on any order – just show a Military ID when making a purchase.

4worldlovers: 2 Charter boats, in 3 different Marinas, in 2 Great Lakes… Yes, that’s us!

4worldlovers: We have now been traveling with groups all over the world for over 10 years. We’ve learned a thing or two. We spend time researching every destination we consider before beginning the process of considering where to stay and with whom to dive. We look for destinations that we would love to dive and we know our customers would love to dive. We research on-line scuba discussion sites, attend industry shows and talking to fellow divers who have been to these destinations. We also make sure we know the best time of year to dive that location. Only after all of this do we decide on a destination and begin looking at dive centers, resorts and live-a-boards.

4worldlovers: DJ’s Scuba Locker, Inc. was established in 1995. We are a 5 Star SDI/TDI Professional Development Center and are a full-service PADI Dive Center and an ERDI training facility conducting certification classes geared for the Public Safety Diver. We have 3 SDI/ERDI Instructors on Staff as well as an SDI/ERDI Instructor Trainer, who can take you from Open Water through Instructor Training. We are also teaching SDI Scubility Classes on a regular basis.