Working as a Dive Instructor

Want to know what enquiries a typical PADI 5 Star IDC gets? Well if you did you will be amazed at the variation in them, will try to post regularly so you get a feel of what people will be wanting from you when you are a Dive Centre owner / Course Director 1, Want […]

Here is sample selection of dive centre enquiries that you may have to deal with on a daily basis if you get your dream job to become an Instructor / Dive Centre owner, could you handle this part of the job (most Instructors dread this part of the job each day) Tech Diving 1, Good

If you get the chance to visit a Recompression Chamber then take it, once you are qualified your local chamber could send you an invite similar to the one below: For those that have missed out on our previous orientations and are interested  , our next chamber orientations including chamber dive (max. 60ft/18m – sorry, no

More queries you may get to answer on a day to day basis once you are a dive instructor, this is included for you as a big chunk of your time is answering these types of questions to ensure that people emailing you are going to confident enough to come to your facility to learn

This overview of a ‘friend’ is a warning not to give the authorities in the place you work as a diving instructor any reason to detain you as their justice system will probably be a lot worse than the country that you originate from. 2008 – This is A Tricky Situation for me I hope

We have no PADI Course Director to recommend in Japan but potentially by working with Instructors like the one below over the years we can build a good and trusting relationship and identify talented and professional dive centres / Course Directors to consider as or Far East Course Director of the future. [Potential PADI IDC

Does your dive career ever stop? I guess you are the only one that knows, personally after diving and teaching for a few intensive years I am now only diving on holidays when the situation arises. I sometimes wish that I had bought the dive centre that I ran in Phuket but sometimes am just

Found this old conversation I had with another Instructor when I was an instructor there and it sheds a little light of the work situation and the way you as a new Scuba Instructor has to be a bit versatile to take whatever job you get offered initially to get your name well known. Instructor

Think you are going to spend all your dive career in the water having fun? If you are lucky enough to run or own a dive centre or you are a freelance Instructor or become office manager within a dive centre then you will need to deal with a huge amount of emailed enquiries every

Think you can take advantage of your employer; the Course Director or the Dive Centre? you need to think again as the dive world is a small place as these two emails demonstrate where Dive Instructors have acted with little integrity or deliberately illegally all it takes is for one dive centre owner to email