Howell’s Diving & Mining Supplies

Small selection, but what they do have is very high quality. I’ve been going here for a long time and always am happy with the gear I buy here. I’ve also rented lots of gear from them and they were very helpful and friendly. I would give them 5 stars if they had a larger selection.

I was recommended this place when it came to buying a balaclava to wick away sweat from a costume of mine that I didn’t want to ruin.
At the time is it was super busy, so I waited patently until the guy running the store asked me if I needed help. I asked if he had any that would keep me cool and pointed to a random one and said, «kinda like that one,» to give an example (I was very timid about even asking, I even said it was for keeping a costume from being ruined) and he straight up glared at me and yelled at me about how the one I pointed at was only for going into cold water, yelled as if I should have known about it completely. Just his intensity just made me just go, I was still polite about leaving, but geez…
It’s got quite a few bits of interesting gear for diving and other stuff like that, stuff you don’t always find in Redding, which I would’ve given 4 stars for, if the guy wasn’t rude about my question.