About Seattle Dive Tours
Our Philosophy - Experience Life in Water.
That’s our mission statement and our reason for being here.
We want to show you some of our favorite local dive sites in an organized, eco-centric, no-touch, no-take, safe, and relaxed way.
We are passionate about teaching you diving as a beginner or as a more advanced diver in small group personalized classes.
We are excited to take you, and 5-6 of your new best friends, to see some of our favorite dive locations around the world.
We perform multiple underwater clean ups and other volunteering each year to keep our waters and community the best they can be.
We donate 1% of our top line revenue to support local and international nonprofits that support and expand our mission with swim lessons, marine life rescue and marine education. Our 2024 non-profits include: Reef Check, SeaDoc Society, SR3 (Sealife Rescue, Rehab and Research), PADI Aware and Puget SoundKeeper.
We want everyone to ‘Experience Life in Water’
Seattle Dive Tours is an active partner with GreenFins and a PADI Eco-Dive Center. All divers can minimize their impact on the environment by following environmental best practice while diving, and our dive team will guide you through these practices throughout your tour or class! Learn more.
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The Haida people believed that the orca protected those who travel away from home, and led them back when the time comes. We hope to do the same for our guests and students.
Orcas and the Pacific Northwest are culturally intertwined. They live like wolves and raise each child with care. Orcas will often stay their whole life with the same maternal based pod. They also travel in large groups, working together to protect all members of their pod. They are now critically endangered due to human causes such as chemical pollution, noise pollution, overfishing of their primary food source and more.
We hope that you will help protect our orca community.
Here are 5 ways you can help:
- Orcas are sensitive to noise and disturbance from boats. Instead of approaching them in your own vessel, spend a day watching them from a responsibly-managed whale watching vessel, or watch them from shore.
- Engage in citizen science by alerting researchers when you spot orcas so scientists can track their travel.
- Get involved in efforts to protect and restore salmon habitat in your community. Chinook salmon are especially important to killer whale populations in the Salish Sea.
- Choose to eat sustainably-harvested salmon and other seafood to help protect wild fish populations.
- Do your part to dispose of unused medicine and chemicals properly. Never dump them into household toilets and sinks or outside where they can get into ditches or storm drains. See if your community has a household hazardous waste collection facility that will take your old or unused chemicals.