Colorado’s Largest Scuba Event!
Friday May 16 | Saturday May 17 | Sunday May 18, 2025
Join us for great new products, presentations, programs, prizes and more!
Friday, May 16: (10:30am – 6:00pm) In store sale starts
Saturday, May 17: (10:00am – 5:00pm) Sale, events, presentations, activities
Sunday, May 18: (10:00am – 5:00pm) Sale, events, presentations, activities
GRAND PRIZE DRAWINGS
Sunday, May 18 beginning at 3:00pm
Must be present to win
Event Highlights
Make Waves for Veterans — LIVE AUCTION FOR A TRIP TO ROATAN – HELP VETERANS HEAL THROUGH EXPLORATION AND ADVENTURE!
Veterans Exploration Therapy is a Colorado-based nonprofit that empowers veterans, service members, and families to explore wilderness and therapeutic pathways through outdoor recreation. Every dollar raised from this auction goes directly to helping veterans and their families heal through adventure.
Every dollar raised from this auction supports Veterans Exploration Therapy, giving veterans the chance to reconnect, heal, and push past their barriers through outdoor adventure. Your next great escape could be the start of someone else’s healing journey — so bid big, bid often, and know you’re changing lives with every dollar!
WINNER WILL RECEIVE an amazing trip to Anthony’s Key Resort in Roatán, enjoying a Hill Superior room for one, six-days of three-tank boat dives, two boat night dives, unlimited shore diving, daily meals, a day excursion to Maya Key, fiesta night on the Key, kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, free WiFi, and round-trip airport transfers. This trip is packed with everything you need for an unforgettable experience!
Valued at $1,700
HOW TO BID
The online auction opens Monday, May 12, at 9:00 AM and closes Sunday, May 18, at 2:00 PM sharp. THE MINIMUM BID IS $500
Not only do you get an incredible trip, but the higher this auction goes, the more lives we can touch — so bid boldly, knowing you’re making a real difference with every dollar! Let’s turn this incredible trip into something even more powerful: a community standing up for those who served.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE PRESENT TO WIN
TRY SCUBA DIVING……. FOR FREE
Bring a friend, neighbor, relative, loved one (anyone) and let us treat them to the fun, freedom and excitement of scuba diving. Offered 11 am – 2 pm each day.
*Please only non-certified divers and one experience per person for the weekend.
PRIZES, PRIZES AND MORE PRIZES!
Door prizes, travel prizes, giveaways and more. So many great opportunities to win!
Presentation Prizes
As you enter the various presentations, you will be provided a drawing card. Once the presentation has ended, there will be one or more door prize drawings. The collected cards will be placed in the bin for the Grand Prize drawings at 3pm on Sunday.
Sorry, cards will not be handed out once the presentation begins and will not be collected until the presentation ends.
Equipment and Travel Prizes
As you enter the tent, one of our greeters will provide you with a drawing card. Simply complete the card and return it to the greeter. It will be placed into a special bin for the Grand Prize Drawings on Sunday starting at 3pm.
Rules apply cards must be filled out completely and legibly, you must be present to win and there is a limit of one entry card per person per day.
TRAVEL AND EQUIPMENT PRESENTATIONS
Incredible travel and equipment presentations by the pros.
For every seminar that you attend you receive an additional entry card for our grand prize drawing on Sunday. You must be present to win.
- Great Door Prizes at each seminar
- Experience the sights and sounds of exotic destinations throughout the world
- Meet and hear firsthand from actual resort and destination representatives
EDUCATION SPECIALS
Savings on select classes.
AQUARIUM ECOLOGY DIVER SPECIATIES COURSE
Sign up for the June or July eco course and receive the marine ecology digital manual and specialty for FREE
You’ll get to apply the information you learn while reading the Shark Ecology, Sea Turtle Ecology, Fish Identification, Manta & Ray Ecology, and Marine Ecology digital specialty manuals, gain a better sense of how to identify a large variety of animals, observe their characteristics, and behaviors, and identify their many shapes, sizes, and colors. You’ll leave with a greater appreciation of the fragility of the underwater world and more knowledge of sharks, turtles, fish, eels, rays, and coral than you thought possible.
The opportunity to apply the information you learned in two amazing diving environments at the Denver Downtown Aquarium, will make for an extraordinary diving experience.
Includes:
- SSI Diving Professional
- Shark Cage Experience
- (1) Scuba Dive
- Four SSI Ecology Specialties (Fish ID, Sea Turtle, Shark, and Ray/Manta-Ray)
- Use of: Tank, BCD, Regulator, Gauges, Exposure Suit, Gloves, and Beanie
- (1) day aquarium pass (that day)
Not Included:
- Required Dive slate (for recording important information while underwater)
- Mask, Fins & Booties
- Parking (there is a separate fee for this)
- Swimsuit, towel, and personal hygiene items
CLICK HERE for additional course details
Must pay in full at time of enrollment. Offer valid until June 9, 2025. Cancellations and transfers are subject to an additional fee. Please call us at 303-789-2450.
STRESS AND RESCUE SPECIALTY – SAVE $35
The best buddy you can have is one who can manage themselves, prevent emergencies and solve problems. Our SSI Stress and Rescue Diver course is a pivotal step in expanding your diving knowledge and experience.
Includes:
- Two sessions (pool and classroom)
- Digital manual and certification
- Open water dives
- Use of tanks and weights for open water dives
Not Included:
- Park entry fees
- Equipment rental
- Transportation
- Meals and lodging (when conducted out of state)
- Mask, fins, snorkel, booties
- First Aid and CPR certification
Note: Must have current certification before starting the Stress & Rescue Specialty
CLICK HERE for additional course details
Must pay in full at time of enrollment. Offer valid for June, July 2025 programs. Cancellations and transfers are subject to an additional fee. For more details and to enroll in the Stress and Rescue Specialty, please call us at 303-789-2450.
A-1 ESCORTED GROUP TRIPS
Check out our exciting upcoming adventures!
RENTAL SPECIALS
We’ve got everything you need!
EQUIPMENT SPECIALS GALORE!
Don’t miss out on huge savings on snorkeling and diving equipment at our biggest sale & event of the year.
Check out the largest variety of name-brand equipment in the state! There will be special MAY EVENT sale pricing on nearly everything in the store and several unannounced last minute daily specials. Snorkeling Packages, Complete Scuba Packages, Photo Packages, Exposure Protection, Dive Computers, Dive Bags, oodles of accessories and Tons More on SALE!
We Proudly Represent and Carry Equipment By:
- Atomic
- Aqualung
- Akona
- Apeks
- Backscatter
- BARE Wetsuits
- Cressi
- Genesis
- Garmin
- Go Pro
- Hollis
- Henderson
- H20
- Innovative Scuba Concepts
- Kraken
- Lavacore
- Light and Motion
- Mares
- Oceanic
- O’Neill
- OTS-Ocean Technology Systems
- Pelagic
- Pinnacle
- Scubapro
- SeaLife
- Sea & Sea
- Seac
- Shearwater
- Sherwood
- Stahlsac
- Submersible Systems- Spare Air
- Suunto Dive
- TUSA-Tabata
- Trident
- X-Deep
- XS Scuba
- Zeagle
- And Many More…..
PARKING
There’s plenty of parking available nearby throughout the weekend
- A-1’s parking lot – space is limited (there will be designated parking for people with disabilities)
- Along Windemere street
- Carpet Mill (west of A-1)
- Pirate’s Cove (1 block east of A-1 on Belleview)
- Baseball Park (east of A-1)
A BIG THANKS TO OUR MANY SPONSORS
Participating Travel Vendors
- Philippines- Atlantis Dive Resorts & Live Aboard’s – Marty Snyderman
- Roatan – Anthony’s Key Resort – Melloney Webster
- Indonesia, Wakatobi Resort – Bob Kippola
- Explorer Ventures – Live-a-boards – Sue Hamilton
- Indonesia- Murex & Lembeh Dive Resorts – Lexi and Sammy Charlton
- Fiji – Volivoli Beach Resort – Audrey Tobin
- Cozumel- Hotel Cozumel by Wyndham- Alejandro Graniel
- Cozumel – Dive Paradise – Laura Alcala Ortega
- Denver- Park 2 Jet- Bill and Mimi Boyer
Equipment and & Education Organizations
- ScubaPro – Scott Dawson
- SeaLife – Debra Gaburo
- Huish Outdoors (Atomic/Bare/Stahlsac/Zeagle/Oceanic/Hollis) – Greg Such
- TUSA/U.K./Sea & Sea/WaterProof – Roddy Winton
- Mares/SSI – Kirk Stolzenburg
- SSI – Kirk Stolzenburg
- Henderson/Sherwood Scuba Group – Scott Witten
- Fins Attached – Alex Antoniou
- Denver Aquarium – Renee Weber
- D.A.N. – Greg Moore
- Safe-Splash Swim Schools – Steve
Colorado’s biggest diving event only happens once a year – don’t miss it!
