Alternative is a PADI 5 Star dive club in Moscow (S-23962) at 2nd Kabelny Proezd, near Aviamotornaya metro, and an authorized Aqualung service center. The club trains divers from a first try-dive through professional level, plus its own authored courses on buoyancy and handling emergency situations, and it runs a PADI Mermaid program. It has its own training base at the Shchyolkovo quarry near Moscow and a branch in Alushta, Crimea, plus club trips further afield, such as to Dahab in Egypt.