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Mike's Dive Store Reviews

4.7 Rating 1,611 Reviews
94 %
of reviewers recommend Mike's Dive Store
4.7
Based on 1,611 reviews
Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods
Postal Service, Courier
Average Delivery Time
Within 5 Days
On-time Delivery
Greater than 90%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders
98%
Customer Service
Communication Channels
Email, Telephone, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In
Under An Hour
Customer Service
4.8 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Returns Process
Easy
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About Mike's Dive Store:

Mike’s London Dive Store may have been established for more than thirty years but its history goes back much further than that. It’s founder, big Mike Calder, was the super-salesman at a dive store in Fulham Palace Road in West London. A local lad who was larger in life than in so many ways, he was so successful at serving divers with the equipment that suited their needs best that people beat a path to his door from all over the country.

Mike was a diver and he believed that if his customers were satisfied they’d return. He took the long view. He was eventually so successful that other dive shop owners even protested he was distorting the market.

It was inevitable that he would set up in business for himself and with the help of a local friend started selling dive equipment from a warehouse at Richmond’s waterside. Eventually he moved the business to the more accessible premises it is in today.

Mike was a giant of the UK’s diving industry in many more ways than one and all who knew him were shocked when he was suddenly taken from us long before his time, in 2009.

Still in his early teens, Scuba Steve started diving in the Sinai in 1989, in the days when Red Sea liveaboard operations were truly pioneering. He accompanied skipper Jan Ellingsen on Colona IV on a 1200 nautical mile trip down to the Sudan and learned to dive on the way. A few exciting encounters with grey reef sharks and he was hooked.

He worked alongside Mike and purchased Mike’s Dive Store when it became available. Mike’s son chose to sell to Steve because he could see that Steve had the same passion as his dad for scuba diving and was confident that he would carry on the tradition of good service and advice from a position of a wealth of knowledge very much as his dad had done.

Mike’s Dive Store is not about shifting boxes of product but having the patience to understand the particular needs and wishes of every one of its individual customers. That’s you!

There are very many aspects to the underwater world and Steve has seen most of them. He instils in his staff this philosophy to only sell the right tools for the job and many of the currently regular customers will tell you that it was Mike sold them their first set of diving equipment. Mike may have passed away but Mike’s Dive Store is alive and well, and Scuba Steve is carrying on the traditions that Mike established for it.

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Phone:

2089946006

Email:

steve@mikesdivestore.com

Location:

113, Power Road, London
W4 5PY

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Anonymous
Anonymous  // 01/01/2019
Order received and despatched promptly with plain packaging as requested. Item not yet checked as yet as for a Xmas present.
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Posted 1 year ago
Excellent - prompt delivery
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Posted 1 year ago
Great thanks.
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Posted 1 year ago
Easy transaction and the item was dispatched quickly via tracked 48. There was a delay with Royal Mail.
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Posted 1 year ago
Absolutely outstanding service in-store
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Posted 1 year ago
great, easy-to-navigate website, fast delivery & decent prices too.
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Posted 1 year ago
I use Mikes Dive store 2-3 times a year and have done for 6 yrs. Their products are fairly priced, emails promptly answered and super easy to order. Items arrive in good time. Staff very knowledgeable, really friendly and efficient. Would highly recommend.
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Posted 1 year ago
Ordered the Orca D710. Very quick delivery. The torch is very light and it's handy having the different power levels. It comes with 2 batteries so you can use one and have the other one ready if you need it on a diving day.
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Posted 1 year ago
Great product and quick service delivery
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Posted 1 year ago
Excellent range of products at good prices. Very pleased with quality of previous purchases but our recent ones are for Christmas so not tried and tested yet!! Always great service and fast delivery. Highly recommend them!
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Posted 1 year ago
Replaced a battery in my old uwatec. Very happy with the service.
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Posted 1 year ago
Excellent service as always by Mikes dive store
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Posted 1 year ago
Very helpful staff, good stock. Thanks, looking forward to using my new mask.
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Posted 1 year ago
Great store and brilliantly helpful assistant who helped me find the right wetsuit, boots, mask and gloves. One point: get some bags! A bit daft to have a shop that sells hundreds of pounds worth of kit and then have no bags to put your purchases in! A basic and avoidable error.
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Posted 1 year ago
New to diving. Local shop didn’t have much choice so googled what I thought I might want. Several places came up. I found the website easy to navigate and with plenty of information/guidance. Prices were very competitive across the whole range that I looked at. Ordering was straightforward and goods arrived very quickly. For my next order I will check Mike’s first. Would be very happy to buy from them again or recommend.
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Posted 1 year ago
I recently purchased the Suunto D5 from Mike's Dive Store and they had a great online selection with good prices and I received my order quickly. What I really liked is that with their online store, they had a lot of information about the product and articles as well so I was able to make an informed decision about the right dive computer for me.
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Posted 1 year ago
Excellent advice and patience to make sure I got what I wanted
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Posted 1 year ago
Great service
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Posted 1 year ago
Help has impeccable and friendly!
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Posted 1 year ago
Regular customer. Great service and professional advice
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Posted 1 year ago
Mike's Dive Store is rated 4.7 based on 1,611 reviews