About us

Built by divers, for dive shops

ScubaShop is made by EmberCrest LLC, a family business built by divers.

EmberCrest is a family business with hands in more than one industry; ScubaShop is the one closest to our hearts. We build the tool we wished every dive shop we had ever walked into already had, we answer to the shops that use it, and we plan to be doing this for a very long time.

Diving is what this family does together. It started with a father who became a PADI Master Instructor and pulled the rest of us under with him, and it has carried us to the places we love best: the walls of Bonaire, Anthony's Key Resort on Roatan, and the quiet reefs off Blackbird Caye in Belize. A lot of ScubaShop was sketched out between dives at places like these.

That is also why the software exists. We kept watching great dive shops, the kind that fill your tanks, fix your regulator and remember your name, run their whole operation on paper, whiteboards and tools that do not talk to each other. Their trade is getting people underwater safely; ours is software. ScubaShop is our way of pitching in.

From the founder

Shaun Daniels
My Wife and I :)
My Wife and I :)

I have spent more than 25 years building technology, including years as a principal architect for two of the world's largest cloud providers and as part of a startup team that grew to a successful acquisition by Mastercard. Diving runs in the family: my father is a PADI Master Instructor who got me underwater in the early 2000s, and it has been my favorite way to spend a vacation ever since. ScubaShop is my way of giving something back to the dive community, and of spending more of my working life inside the hobby I love.

Shaun Daniels

Founder, ScubaShop

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