Living The Scuba Dream

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. Differences in dive professionals’ incomes, based on the instructor’s gender, location, training agency affiliation, experience, age, and more.

Building a professional scuba diving industry to satisfy today’s consumers requires more than passion from dive instructors and divemasters.

It’s a classic scuba diving professional joke. And it’s often misstated. Let’s clarify it!

Out-of-water skills. That’s where dive instructors often fail in their attempt at “living the dream.”

Additional scuba diving, tech diving, freediving & snorkeling skills a professional dive instructor should master for a successful career.

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.

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.

Heads up! The good and the bad about becoming a scuba diving instructor.