Choose Your Diving Instructor NOT the Store or Agency

Ok!!! You have been intrigued about SCUBA diving for a while and you finally decided to get your SCUBA certification. The big question comes now. Where should you do your training? The common answer for this is “Any certified place is good” or “Go to any diving store on your next trip to the beach”, I think this are not valid answers. SCUBA diving could be a dangerous sport, and bad training is the first cause of diving accidents. What can you do to make the right choice?!?! Well the best thing you can do is to focus in choosing your instructor, instead of the diving center or the different agencies. At the end it doesn't matter how nice the store was or if they have an awesome website, what matter is the capability of the person teaching you. In my opinion the 4 thing you should look for in a diving instructor are the next ones.

1.- Suit your necessities

Diving is one of the most complete sports in the world and a lot of different people dive for different reasons. Talk to your instructor about what you want from your diving experience and judge if they suit you.

2.- Trust

The diving instructors, in some way, have your life in their hands. For you to be able to calm down and make the best of your course you should trust your instructor. If you don't, that's not the one for you.

3.- Technical diving

When you start diving it is likely you are doing recreational diving, and with time and practice you will start leveling up. At some point you are going to get the opportunity to become a technical diver which exceeds the recreational diver limits. For this, it is necessary you really polish your diving technique. A scuba instructor that does technical diving too, is more likely to have a refine diving technique, and in consequence will be more suited to teach you those skills.

4.- Dives for pleasure

A lot of diving professionals have forgotten the pleasures of diving and they only do it for the money; making their lessons boring and tedious. Ask your instructor "Where do they dive when they are not working?", most of them will get excited and even start planning their next dive.

If you tried diving and didn't like it, try it again with a different instructor.

March 21, 2020 Tags : All , Tips , Training

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Choose Your Diving Instructor NOT the Store or Agency