Divers Training Center features the most sophisticated scuba equipment service facility in the metroplex. We have made an extensive investment in our service shop in order to ensure that your investment, and life support system, is provided with the best care anywhere. Scroll down the page to see a few of the high-tech tools that we use to care for your gear.

Ultrasonic Parts Cleaner

Ultrasonic Parts Cleaner This is our ultrasonic parts cleaner. It is used to clean all the metal parts of a regulator to dissolve salt and degrease prior to an inspection of each and every part in the regulator. It is also one of the steps used in cleaning equipment for Nitrox and O2 service.

Precision Manometer

This instrument allows the technician to detect even the smallest leak in a second stage that would admit water while diving. It also is a very precise tool for determining the exact “cracking” point of the first and second stages of your regulator. This enables the technician to optimize the performance of any regulator.

Regulator Flow Analyzer

This device is essential for diagnosing and tuning scuba regulators. Using this “flow panel” our technicians can plot the breathing characteristics of your regulator based on both depth and tank pressure. If desired, you will be furnished a “plot” documenting the performance curves of your regulator. Without an accurate way to measure and document the characteristics of a regulator, a technician is just giving a personal opinion.

High Pressure Management System

This device is used to supply precise pressures to your regulator during the “flow panel” procedures. As it is fed from our constant pressure high pressure system, the technician can control airflow at any pressure. Most technicians use air from a scuba tank for this step which results in unreliable results because the tank pressure is constantly dropping.

Regulator "Break-in" Machine

Many times a freshly serviced regulator will begin to exhibit a very slight free-flow after it has been used a couple of times. Our “break in” machine allows our technicians to hookup your second stages to cycle the regulator system 200-300 times. This allows the first and second stage seats to take a “set”. Once this occurs the technician can then make a final adjustment and the regulator is ready to dive with the possibility of a fine free-flow being greatly reduced.

Regulator Vise

Even our bench vise is different. This vise enables the technician to open “stubborn” regulators that have been over-tightened, or corroded shut, without damaging any of the parts. How many times have you gotten back a regulator that had tool marks all over it? That is unacceptable and may even be a sign that the technician used excessive force to open the regulator.

Hyperbaric Chamber

Our “pressure pot” allows our technicians to test depth gauges, integrity of watches, dive computers etc. It even allows us to test the functions of dive computers – and YES we can test air integrated and hoseless computers as well. Without this tool, set up this way, there really isn’t a way to check air integrated and hoseless computers for watertightness and function.

 

Stereoscopic Microscope

Our stereoscopic microscope allows us to examine parts for flaws that might escape the naked eye. Especially useful for examining the knife edges on first stage pistons and second stage cones, we can spot problems that others may miss. We can then, for instance, determine whether to polish out a slight nick or replace the part. (This could translate to: $5 in Labor or $40 for a new piston?)

 

Digital Tank Inspection System - Visual Plus III

Our Visual Plus III is state of the art. With this we can diagnose neck cracks in scuba tanks regardless of the alloy. Facilities using the older model machines will many times get false readings because the older model machines could not deal with some of the different alloys found in scuba cylinders.

Our Course Director, Jeff Simpson, was one of the first technicians in the country to recognize that there were potential problems with neck cracks going undetected by the naked eye. He brought the first Visual Plus machine into the Metroplex several years ago. The Visual Plus system has since become the standard for crack detection in scuba cylinders.