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How to become a successful scuba diving instructor, how to manage your career as a diving professional, and how to manage your dive center.

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The Path To Becoming a Scuba Diving Instructor:

1. Dive Instructor Salary: How much money does a scuba diving instructor make? Exclusive survey results on annual and hourly income for scuba diving instructors by training agency, and geographical region.
2. What qualifications do you need to be a diving instructor? Scuba instructor prerequisites. There are only a handful of official prerequisites to becoming a scuba diving instructor. There are many more requirements if you want to be successful in your career as a dive instructor.
3. The Pros & Cons of Being a Scuba Diving Instructor. Heads up! The good and the bad about becoming a dive instructor.
4. How Long Does It Take To Become a Scuba Diving Instructor? A better question would be how long it takes to become a dive instructor good enough to earn a living as a scuba diving professional.

Your Career as a Scuba Diving Professional:

1. Essential Non-Diving Skills for Scuba Diving Instructors: Out-of-water skills. That’s where dive instructors often fail in their attempt at “living the dream.”
2. Essential Scuba Diving Instructor Skills (Underwater Skills): Additional scuba diving, tech diving, freediving, and snorkeling skills a professional dive instructor should master for a successful career.
3. The role of standards & procedures, quality assurance, and dive instructors in keeping scuba divers alive: A Prop Gun. A Power Bar. A Dead Diver. What do they have in common?
4. In which part of the scuba diving industry should I invest? Who stands to gain in a renewed dive industry? Which dive gear brand? Scuba diving training agency? Dive resort? Local dive shop?
5. Valuable Selling Skills for Dive Professionals To Learn During the Lockdown — and After! Increasing sales and customer satisfaction can be done simultaneously.

Complete guide to success: Your Career and/or Life as a Scuba Diving Instructor: How to make a good living out of your passion for scuba diving.

Survey Results & Data To Help You Succeed as a Scuba Diving Professional:

1. Are dive centers & instructors equipped to provide a quality experience to scuba divers? Can scuba divers trust dive training agencies, instructors, dive shops & dive resorts? Why do we lack consistency in the quality of the experience?
2. Instructor Survey Results, part 1: The Economics of Being a Recreational Scuba Diving Instructor: Is it possible to make a living as a recreational scuba diving instructor? What to expect financially. Hourly rates. How much to invest in dive gear & scuba training.
3. Instructor Survey Results, part 2: A Look At Dive Instructors Who Did Not Renew Their ‘Teaching Status’. The “economics” of the dropped-out scuba diving instructors. Their reasons. Their profile.
4. Instructor Survey Results, part 3: Differences in dive professionals’ income, based on the instructor’s gender, location, training agency affiliation, experience, age, and more.
5. Survey Results: Am I a Bad Apple? Quality & Safety by Dive Instructors. Are scuba diving instructors “cutting corners”? If so, why? And what do they need to improve the quality of their dive courses?
6. Survey Results: Scuba Diving & Panicking. Dive industry survey conducted in relation to an InDepth article titled “Don’t Panic: Understanding the Causes and Remedies of Diver Panic.”

Tools for Success in The Scuba Diving Industry:

1. Guide book: Your Career and/or Life as a Scuba Diving Instructor: How to make a good living out of your passion for scuba diving.
2. Reference book: Scuba Diving Industry Market Size & Statistics: 2021 Edition.
3. Promotional material: “Conversation starter” products for dive instructors and scuba professionals to recruit more student divers.
4. Best Marketing & Business Management Books for Scuba Diving Professionals: Reference books used in Scubanomics articles.

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Also from Darcy Kieran:

• Handbook: Your Career and/or Life as a Scuba Diving Instructor: How to Make a Good Living Out of Your Passion for Scuba Diving.
• Logbook: Advanced Scuba Diving Logbook with Checklists for certified scuba divers, divemasters & dive instructors.
• Handbook: Advanced Guide to SPF Scuba Diving for Scuba Divers, Divemasters & Dive Instructors: Develop Better Scuba Diving Skills, Dive Safer, Save Money & Have More Fun!
• Handbook: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide To Scuba Diving: How to Increase Safety, Save Money & Have More Fun!
• Logbook: STARTER Scuba Diving Logbook with Checklists while getting your open water diver certification!
• Reference book: Scuba Diving Industry Market Reports, Data & Statistics.

Side note: During your surface intervals, have a look at my novels with a scuba diving twist, starting with “Mystery of The Blue Dragon” and “Shadows on Ocean Drive.”

You could help the dive industry by taking part in ongoing dive industry surveys. You will also find results from our past scuba diving market studies here.

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Let’s make a good living out of our passion for scuba diving!