Announcing our new business: The Triangle Dive Shop
In November of 2024, the owners of Water World & Raleigh Scuba Diving met to discuss a wild concept; the merging of their 2 dive shops. We call this idea “wild” because Water World is the oldest dive shop in…

In November of 2024, the owners of Water World & Raleigh Scuba Diving met to discuss a wild concept; the merging of their 2 dive shops. We call this idea “wild” because Water World is the oldest dive shop in the Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill areas and one of the longest running PADI 5 Star IDC centers in the country. Raleigh Scuba Diving was formed in 2023 and was the areas newest Dive Shop and making diving, dive training and customer service more accessible to online users.
Water World opened in 1976 as a dive shop. While it began as primary a NAUI dive training store, the owner, David Katzenmeyer saw the rise of PADI and was an early adopter of their system. As such, Water World has one of the oldest PADI IDC center store numbers in the world (PADI store # 371). In the years following David decided to diversity his business and began selling boats. Over the years, Water World has enjoyed great success in both the boat and scuba diving businesses. In 2017, a fire broke out and the Water World building was catastrophically damaged. Not one to be deterred, David began the process to rebuild bigger and better than before (this time made out of concrete) to the facility they have today. While they are known to many as a boat shop, the scuba store remains both a passion and staple of the store’s history.
Raleigh Scuba Diving was formed in 2023 by the husband and wife team of Amy Paur & Brian Mullins. Both Amy & Brian are PADI & SDI instructors and have taught domestically & abroad. Both have experience with small & large dive shop operations and formed the company to bring together all the best aspects they’ve learned from dive shops around the country. Their pledge was simple, to demystify the process of earning scuba certifications, to treat their customers fairly and to make every process easy. Their 1st year in business they issued over 80 certifications so they knew they were onto something.
In 2025, David, Amy & Brian launched the Triangle Dive Shop; a merger between both companies. This company brings a storied history and a fresh approach to dive training under the same roof. Safety, community, willingness to educate divers & a passion for providing excellent training are the core principles of this new company. Their company resides in the same location as Water World in Durham, NC. The new store features one of the largest scuba equipment inventories in the area, a 25 CFM compressor, a custom mix stick to create custom nitrox blends, the ability to fill up to 100% O2, (coming soon) trimix blending and almost every major scuba equipment dealership available in the US.
David, Amy & Brian are thrilled to announce this next chapter in the Raleigh, Durham & Chapel Hill scuba communities and cordially invite you to stop by and check out the new business.
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