Living The Scuba Dream
Plan Your Scuba Instructor Career & Deep Dive The Plan
Let’s make a good living out of our passion for scuba diving!
We want to go beyond being “a” professional to “being professional” – and successful!
We discuss and provide information, tricks, and advice on how we can “raise the bar” as a scuba diving instructor to put us on a path to success.
Even if scuba is our passion, we can make this adventure a better one financially, be much safer, have more fun, and be more fulfilling.
Market Reports on The Business of Being a Scuba Diving Instructor
- We’re conducting a 2025 survey on the economics of being a dive instructor. If you are currently a scuba instructor, please participate in the survey. You can check the 2021 results here.
- Worldwide Trends in Certifications & Courses at All Levels by Category & Region
- Benchmarking Scuba Diving Instructors: Revenues, Profits & Business Activity Profile of Dive Instructors in Europe & USA
- Your Dive Industry Compass: Market Surveys, Research & Reports
Career Planning & Management Tips for Scuba Diving Instructors
- The Pros & Cons of Being a Scuba Diving Instructor: Heads up! The good and the bad about becoming a dive instructor.
- 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.
- Scuba Instructor Prerequisites: What Qualifications Do I Need To Be a Dive Instructor? 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- Profile of a Scuba Diving Instructor: Building a professional scuba diving industry to satisfy today’s consumers requires more than passion from dive instructors and divemasters.
You Should Also Have a Look At
- The Critical Difference Between Satisfied and Enthusiastic Scuba Divers: A satisfied scuba diver isn’t enough; to plug the hole in our industry, we must create enthusiastic customers.
- Beneath the Blue Planet – A Book Review: The “Diver’s Guide to the Ocean and Its Conservation” is actually a must-have bible for divemasters, scuba instructors, dive boat captains, and dive center & resort managers.
- Divemaster & Scuba Instructor Creed: I’m in Charge of My Attitude, Skills & Knowledge
- Blueprints 4.0: A Healthier Dive Industry Business Model
…And Just For Fun!
- How Do You End Up With a Small Fortune In The Dive Industry? It’s a classic scuba diving professional joke. And it’s often misstated. Let’s clarify it.
- Best Scuba Diving Novels for Your Surface Intervals. Because we cannot be underwater all the time — but we can always pretend to be!
Other Scuba Diving Industry Resources for Dive Professionals
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Your Dive Industry Compass
Scuba Diving Market Research, Surveys, Reports & Statistics
Blueprints 4.0: A Healthier Business Model
Scuba Diving Industry Structure, Competitive Analysis, Business Models & Strategies for Growth With The New Scuba Diver
Books, eBooks, Audiobooks & Logbooks
For Scuba Divers, Instructors & Dive Industry Professionals