Minnesota School of Diving Inc.

Since 1959

 
 

The Minnesota School of Diving (MSD) has been providing services to the scuba diving and snorkeling community since opening our first dive center in 1959. In addition to quality PADI scuba instruction - from Discover Scuba to Dive Master, MSD offers scuba equipment sales, service and scuba equipment rental; local scuba diving excursions to the Cuyuna (Crosby) Mine Pits; and dive travel - both domestic and world wide.

 

Our 27,000 sq. ft. main facility is located in the heart of the popular Brainerd Lakes Area and ten minutes from the Cuyuna Mines. To better serve the Twin Cities and south central Minnesota we also have a satellite facility located in Saint Cloud.

Latest News...
Great Lakes Shipwreck Trip
This years destination for MSD's annual Shipwreck Trip is the always popular Munising, MI, located on the (relatively) warm waters of the south shore of Lake Superior. The $495 trip fee covers - 3 nights of lodging at Munising Motel (based on double occupancy) and 2 days of 2 tank shipwreck dives with Shipwreck Tours. 
 
There are only 5 spaces available for this trip. Sign up quickly, as this trip always fills up quickly.
 
 For more information please follow this link to our trip page.

Our Facilities...

Minnesota School of Diving - Brainerd


Our Brainerd facility offers a 9000 sq. ft. showroom, classroom and office area offering scuba instruction; scuba equipment sales, scuba equipment rental and repair; air fills; hydrostatic cylinder service and frequent local scuba diving opportunities. It is also the home of the Minnesota Commercial Diver Training Center which offers commercial diving certification courses.

Minnesota School of Diving - Saint Cloud
 

Saint Cloud's facility has a 2400 sq. ft. showroom, classroom and office area offering scuba instruction; equipment sales, rental and repair; and air fills. It's also home to the soon to be "World's Largest Collection of Parrot Fish Poop" (aka - sand).