Adventure Sports Unlimited

Dive the sweeping underwater canyons and towering kelp forests of California's Channel Islands with Adventure Sports Unlimited — Santa Cruz's home for scuba, swim, and serious aquatic adventure.

Adventure Sports Unlimited (ASU) is a Santa Cruz aquatics center at 303 Potrero Street, serving the local dive community for over 36 years. The shop offers PADI scuba training from entry-level through Divemaster, swim lessons for children, gear outfitting, and organized dive travel — making it a full-service hub for water-based recreation on California's Central Coast. ASU's flagship dive travel offering is their annual Southern Channel Islands liveaboard trip aboard the Vision, a spacious live-aboard dive boat departing from H&M Landing in San Diego. The 5-day trip visits Santa Barbara Island, Catalina Island, San Clemente Island, Cortes Banks, and San Nicolas, exploring the vast underwater park of the Channel Islands — known for sweeping canyons, swim-throughs, and towering kelp forests. The October trip adds lobster hunting to the diving, making it a particularly popular seasonal excursion. In addition to travel and training, the shop runs a retail operation with extended swim school hours (Monday–Sunday, 9am–7pm) and shop hours Monday–Friday, 12pm–5pm. ASU's community-first approach — complete with Happy Hour on the liveaboard and a 20% student gear discount — reflects its charter to bring people together through the water.

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Santa Cruz, United States · departs from H&M Landing, San Diego

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