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Home of the Diver Down Flag

Scuba Diving at Vortex

The spring basin is 50 feet deep at the mouth of the cavern. Surface lit during the day and inhabited by Koi, Gar, Catfish, American Eels, Redhorse Suckers, Blue Gill, and Bass to name a few. These will surely be your constant companions, and are tame enough to eat right out of your hand, an underwater photographers dream. The cavern continues another one hundred yards, to a depth of 115 feet at the cave system security gate. The white sand bottom and shimmering air pockets make for a breathtaking experience!

Daily Diving Pass

Daily Diving Pass is $25 per person and can be purchased on-site at the dive shop. 10% Discount applied for all military.

With a daily diving pass, you are able to enjoy the incredible underwater world at Vortex Spring. This pass includes all the benefits of the daily park pass like access to the swimming area, platforms and slides. Vortex Spring features a full service dive shop for all your diving needs.

Daily Diving Pass

Daily Diving Pass is $25 per person and can be purchased on-site at the dive shop. 10% Discount applied for all military.

With a daily diving pass, you are able to enjoy the incredible underwater world at Vortex Spring. This pass includes all the benefits of the daily park pass like access to the swimming area, platforms and slides. Vortex Spring features a full service dive shop for all your diving needs.

Daily Diving Pass

Daily Diving Pass is $25 per person and can be purchased on-site at the dive shop. 10% Discount applied for all military.

With a daily diving pass, you are able to enjoy the incredible underwater world at Vortex Spring. This pass includes all the benefits of the daily park pass like access to the swimming area, platforms and slides. Vortex Spring features a full service dive shop for all your diving needs.

Daily Diving Pass

Daily Diving Pass is $25 per person and can be purchased on-site at the dive shop. 10% Discount applied for all military.

With a daily diving pass, you are able to enjoy the incredible underwater world at Vortex Spring. This pass includes all the benefits of the daily park pass like access to the swimming area, platforms and slides. Vortex Spring features a full service dive shop for all your diving needs.

Dive Shop

Daily Diving Pass is $25 per person and can be purchased on-site at the dive shop. 10% Discount applied for all military.

With a daily diving pass, you are able to enjoy the incredible underwater world at Vortex Spring. This pass includes all the benefits of the daily park pass like access to the swimming area, platforms and slides. Vortex Spring features a full service dive shop for all your diving needs.

Dive Shop

Daily Diving Pass is $25 per person and can be purchased on-site at the dive shop. 10% Discount applied for all military.

With a daily diving pass, you are able to enjoy the incredible underwater world at Vortex Spring. This pass includes all the benefits of the daily park pass like access to the swimming area, platforms and slides. Vortex Spring features a full service dive shop for all your diving needs.

Dive Shop

Daily Diving Pass is $25 per person and can be purchased on-site at the dive shop. 10% Discount applied for all military.

With a daily diving pass, you are able to enjoy the incredible underwater world at Vortex Spring. This pass includes all the benefits of the daily park pass like access to the swimming area, platforms and slides. Vortex Spring features a full service dive shop for all your diving needs.

Dive Shop

Daily Diving Pass is $25 per person and can be purchased on-site at the dive shop. 10% Discount applied for all military.

With a daily diving pass, you are able to enjoy the incredible underwater world at Vortex Spring. This pass includes all the benefits of the daily park pass like access to the swimming area, platforms and slides. Vortex Spring features a full service dive shop for all your diving needs.

Naui Learning

Dive Training

Diving can lead to adventures in exotic tropical locales and an exciting lifetime profession anywhere in the world. Choosing NAUI training means you're only satisfied with the very best. NAUI has the highest training standards in the diving industry and NAUI divers enjoy a worldwide reputation for being accomplished underwater explorers where each breath turns a new page in a journey into the unknown.

Scuba diving is the ultimate role playing activity where you live each moment and venture into places where no one else has been before. Experience weightlessness like an astronaut orbiting the Earth. Breathe underwater while suspended in a cool, refreshing, aquatic world. See strange and exotic fishes and other denizens of the deep like only other NAUI divers do.

Learning to be a NAUI diver is an adventure all in itself! Grab a friend and start at home today with a NAUI educational system from your home away from home Vortex Spring Adventures LLC a NAUI Dive Center. Join the millions of others who discovered NAUI scuba diving and changed their lives forever. Want more information? Scroll on and get ready for the adventure of a lifetime!

Contact Us For Certifications

NAUI G.I. Bill Certifications

$199.00

Try Scuba

The NAUI Try Scuba program is an introductory scuba program of the National Association of Underwater Instructors. The Try Scuba portion of the program is designed to simply introduce you to scuba diving in a pool or confined water. Once you complete your pool or confined water training, continue your adventure in the open water by continuing in the NAUI Passport Scuba Diver Program.

$199.00

Try Scuba

The NAUI Try Scuba program is an introductory scuba program of the National Association of Underwater Instructors. The Try Scuba portion of the program is designed to simply introduce you to scuba diving in a pool or confined water. Once you complete your pool or confined water training, continue your adventure in the open water by continuing in the NAUI Passport Scuba Diver Program.

$199.00

Try Scuba

The NAUI Try Scuba program is an introductory scuba program of the National Association of Underwater Instructors. The Try Scuba portion of the program is designed to simply introduce you to scuba diving in a pool or confined water. Once you complete your pool or confined water training, continue your adventure in the open water by continuing in the NAUI Passport Scuba Diver Program.

$199.00

Try Scuba

The NAUI Try Scuba program is an introductory scuba program of the National Association of Underwater Instructors. The Try Scuba portion of the program is designed to simply introduce you to scuba diving in a pool or confined water. Once you complete your pool or confined water training, continue your adventure in the open water by continuing in the NAUI Passport Scuba Diver Program.

$494.99

NAUI Scuba Diver

Just imagine where you will go! Begin your underwater explorations by enrolling in a NAUI Scuba Diver class. This is our entry-level certification course where you will learn the fundamental knowledge and skills to safety dive in open water.

Earning your NAUI Scuba Diver Certification card is an accomplishment for which you will rightfully feel proud and you will be ready to begin a lifetime of underwater adventures and discovering.

During your NAUI Scuba Diver class, you will learn about modern dive equipment, diving sciences, responsible diving practices and the environment. Diving skills will be taught and practiced first in the comfort and convenience of a confined water environment and finally during your open water training dives with your NAUI Instructor.

$494.99

NAUI Scuba Diver

Just imagine where you will go! Begin your underwater explorations by enrolling in a NAUI Scuba Diver class. This is our entry-level certification course where you will learn the fundamental knowledge and skills to safety dive in open water.

Earning your NAUI Scuba Diver Certification card is an accomplishment for which you will rightfully feel proud and you will be ready to begin a lifetime of underwater adventures and discovering.

During your NAUI Scuba Diver class, you will learn about modern dive equipment, diving sciences, responsible diving practices and the environment. Diving skills will be taught and practiced first in the comfort and convenience of a confined water environment and finally during your open water training dives with your NAUI Instructor.

$494.99

NAUI Scuba Diver

Just imagine where you will go! Begin your underwater explorations by enrolling in a NAUI Scuba Diver class. This is our entry-level certification course where you will learn the fundamental knowledge and skills to safety dive in open water.

Earning your NAUI Scuba Diver Certification card is an accomplishment for which you will rightfully feel proud and you will be ready to begin a lifetime of underwater adventures and discovering.

During your NAUI Scuba Diver class, you will learn about modern dive equipment, diving sciences, responsible diving practices and the environment. Diving skills will be taught and practiced first in the comfort and convenience of a confined water environment and finally during your open water training dives with your NAUI Instructor.

$494.99

NAUI Scuba Diver

Just imagine where you will go! Begin your underwater explorations by enrolling in a NAUI Scuba Diver class. This is our entry-level certification course where you will learn the fundamental knowledge and skills to safety dive in open water.

Earning your NAUI Scuba Diver Certification card is an accomplishment for which you will rightfully feel proud and you will be ready to begin a lifetime of underwater adventures and discovering.

During your NAUI Scuba Diver class, you will learn about modern dive equipment, diving sciences, responsible diving practices and the environment. Diving skills will be taught and practiced first in the comfort and convenience of a confined water environment and finally during your open water training dives with your NAUI Instructor.

$494.99

NAUI Experienced Scuba Diver

Experienced Scuba Diver: Divers at least 15 years of age with a minimum of 25 open water scuba dives but who do not have formal certification (such as military, commercial, or scientific divers), and who wish to gain a NAUI diver certification may complete a NAUI Experienced Scuba Diver course designed just for them. This course reviews all the knowledge and skills taught in the NAUI Scuba Diver course, based on the experience and needs of the student. Graduates receive NAUI Scuba Diver certification with all privileges thereof as a NAUI certified diver.

$494.99

NAUI Experienced Scuba Diver

Experienced Scuba Diver: Divers at least 15 years of age with a minimum of 25 open water scuba dives but who do not have formal certification (such as military, commercial, or scientific divers), and who wish to gain a NAUI diver certification may complete a NAUI Experienced Scuba Diver course designed just for them. This course reviews all the knowledge and skills taught in the NAUI Scuba Diver course, based on the experience and needs of the student. Graduates receive NAUI Scuba Diver certification with all privileges thereof as a NAUI certified diver.

$494.99

NAUI Experienced Scuba Diver

Experienced Scuba Diver: Divers at least 15 years of age with a minimum of 25 open water scuba dives but who do not have formal certification (such as military, commercial, or scientific divers), and who wish to gain a NAUI diver certification may complete a NAUI Experienced Scuba Diver course designed just for them. This course reviews all the knowledge and skills taught in the NAUI Scuba Diver course, based on the experience and needs of the student. Graduates receive NAUI Scuba Diver certification with all privileges thereof as a NAUI certified diver.

$494.99

NAUI Experienced Scuba Diver

Experienced Scuba Diver: Divers at least 15 years of age with a minimum of 25 open water scuba dives but who do not have formal certification (such as military, commercial, or scientific divers), and who wish to gain a NAUI diver certification may complete a NAUI Experienced Scuba Diver course designed just for them. This course reviews all the knowledge and skills taught in the NAUI Scuba Diver course, based on the experience and needs of the student. Graduates receive NAUI Scuba Diver certification with all privileges thereof as a NAUI certified diver.

$494.00

NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver

Enroll in a NAUI Advanced Diver Course to explore new dive sites and undertake exclusive activities under the supervision of a NAUI Instructor. This course allows individuals to learn about specialties and diving activities of particular interest. Your confidence and skill as a diver will increase while you experience the excitement of learning more about the underwater world.

During training, students complete a minimum of six open-water dives, including three separate dives for navigation, night or low visibility diving, and deep diving (130 feet/40 meters of maximum depth), plus three additional dives based on your individual preferences and available options.

$494.00

NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver

Enroll in a NAUI Advanced Diver Course to explore new dive sites and undertake exclusive activities under the supervision of a NAUI Instructor. This course allows individuals to learn about specialties and diving activities of particular interest. Your confidence and skill as a diver will increase while you experience the excitement of learning more about the underwater world.

During training, students complete a minimum of six open-water dives, including three separate dives for navigation, night or low visibility diving, and deep diving (130 feet/40 meters of maximum depth), plus three additional dives based on your individual preferences and available options.

$494.00

NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver

Enroll in a NAUI Advanced Diver Course to explore new dive sites and undertake exclusive activities under the supervision of a NAUI Instructor. This course allows individuals to learn about specialties and diving activities of particular interest. Your confidence and skill as a diver will increase while you experience the excitement of learning more about the underwater world.

During training, students complete a minimum of six open-water dives, including three separate dives for navigation, night or low visibility diving, and deep diving (130 feet/40 meters of maximum depth), plus three additional dives based on your individual preferences and available options.

$494.00

NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver

Enroll in a NAUI Advanced Diver Course to explore new dive sites and undertake exclusive activities under the supervision of a NAUI Instructor. This course allows individuals to learn about specialties and diving activities of particular interest. Your confidence and skill as a diver will increase while you experience the excitement of learning more about the underwater world.

During training, students complete a minimum of six open-water dives, including three separate dives for navigation, night or low visibility diving, and deep diving (130 feet/40 meters of maximum depth), plus three additional dives based on your individual preferences and available options.

From $294.99

NAUI Specialty Certifications

NAUI training continues far beyond the basics! NAUI Instructors teach a wide range of specialized types of diving. Courses include underwater archaeology, rescue training, night diving, deep diving, digital imaging, search & recovery, public safety diving, and much more. Just about any area of underwater interest is taught in a NAUI Specialty course. Join the fun and continue diving today!

From $294.99

NAUI Specialty Certifications

NAUI training continues far beyond the basics! NAUI Instructors teach a wide range of specialized types of diving. Courses include underwater archaeology, rescue training, night diving, deep diving, digital imaging, search & recovery, public safety diving, and much more. Just about any area of underwater interest is taught in a NAUI Specialty course. Join the fun and continue diving today!

From $294.99

NAUI Specialty Certifications

NAUI training continues far beyond the basics! NAUI Instructors teach a wide range of specialized types of diving. Courses include underwater archaeology, rescue training, night diving, deep diving, digital imaging, search & recovery, public safety diving, and much more. Just about any area of underwater interest is taught in a NAUI Specialty course. Join the fun and continue diving today!

From $294.99

NAUI Specialty Certifications

NAUI training continues far beyond the basics! NAUI Instructors teach a wide range of specialized types of diving. Courses include underwater archaeology, rescue training, night diving, deep diving, digital imaging, search & recovery, public safety diving, and much more. Just about any area of underwater interest is taught in a NAUI Specialty course. Join the fun and continue diving today!

Training Experts

Dive Instructors

Training that you'll love!

At Vortex Spring Adventures we take your education seriously. We are a world class training facility. World renowned instructors visit our site yearly, and we have our very own recognized instructors on site.

Billy Walls

Course Director

First Aid Instructor

I have been a scuba instructor since 1983. I started scuba in 1980 as an emergency medical service search and recovery diver. I'm a retired Paramedic and Orthopaedic Physician Assistant. I have taught search and recovery and rescue diving, as well as wreck and deep diving. I particularly enjoy teaching underwater hunting and collecting as well as night diving. I have formal training in hyperbaric medicine. I have been a Paramedic and EMT instructor for over 30 years.

Jef Lovell

NAUI Instructor 12544

NAUI-VA Instructor

First Aid Instructor

DAN Instructor

I began my diving career in 1979, becoming a NAUI Instructor in 1990. I am a retired Paramedic Firefighter, Air Paramedic, and Certified Diver Medic. Along the way I acquired my certification as a Certified Hyperbaric Technologist and Hyperbaric Safety Director. I have worked in the oil and gas industry as a Diver Medic and Safety Trainer. I have directed operations of recompression chambers, and have also enjoyed doing underwater photography since 1990. I am now the manager of diving operations for Vortex Spring Adventures.

Scuba Diving Rules
Policies & Questions

How cold is the water at Vortex Springs?

How deep is the gate at Vortex Springs?

Do you have to pay to get into Vortex springs?

Can I scuba dive without a certification?

Are pets allowed at vortex spring?

Is alcohol allowed at Vortex Spring?

What time is check in for camping and lodging?

Are there grills in the campground?

Are campfires allowed?

Are there lifeguards on duty?

Is there a restaurant on-site?

All diving guests must register at the dive shop, pay applicable pass fees, and sign a waiver/release form. Minors require the signature of a custodial, parent or legal guardian.
Diving passes expire at 11pm.
All scuba rental gear is a 24 hour rental. If you plan to return your gear after hours please contact a staff member for instructions.
The minimum age for scuba diving is 10, regardless of supervision or certification. All minors must dive with a certified adult, regardless of whether the minor is certified.
Diver must be able to show proof of certification from a recognized agency or be under instructor supervision.
Divers must be able to read and abide by all posted diving rules.
Divers must follow all generally accepted safe diving practices.
Divers must not be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Divers must dive within their limits of certification.
Divers must not enter the cavern or cave system without such certifications.