I Wish I Knew THIS When I Was A New Dive Instructor! My Best Advice For Beginner Instructors

I Wish I Knew THIS When I Was A New Dive Instructor! I'm sharing my best advice for new dive instructors... the hustle it took me ten years to figure out.

If you are a dive master, dive instructor or looking to become a dive professional, this video is for you. It took me ten years to figure out how to be successful as a dive professional and it wasn’t by jumping from scuba job to scuba job!

I want to thank my friends Sabina & Joe and Holly & Mark for helping me out with this video! You guys rock! Follow them here:

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Own your brand! You may be working for a small dive shop or dive resort. You may be hopping from job to job at different dive centers - but start your own brand and grow your community. Then as you travel and move, take your community with you. There has never been a time with so many tools to help scuba divers network. If you dive talk, dive sleep and dive walk your way through life, we have 3 actionable steps to help you jump start your scuba diving career.

James identifies two groups of scuba professionals. Group 1 are your job-in dive instructors. They don’t want to do this job forever. They know they are going to be in the scuba industry short term. And that’s perfect. Group 2 are scuba diving instructors who are career focused and know this is a life long pursuit for them. These are the people I am talking to in this video.

Thanks for watching!

D.S.D.O

James

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I Wish I Knew THIS When I Was A New Dive Instructor! My Best Advice For Beginner Instructors

[BlueHorizonDiving]

Thank you mate for having us. As always it was a pleasure.

[brandonsdi]

Cannot agree more with all you said here, we are at FlowState Divers having a very similar approach over at Tenerife with the main goal of erasing all the BS from recreational as well as technical diving and to provide individualized programs for those who really want to get better and not just have the next cert. Nice one James

[johnraymond]

Wow! Talk about perfect timing. I am a USA born diver living in Florida just north of Miami. I will be retiring to Masbate, Philippines with my filipina wife. My father-in-law has a small resort there and is anxious for me to bring this wonderful sport to the resort. I am going to do my IDC in Roatan in June and then retire in October in the Philippines.
Great advise James. I've been your #1 fan since the "Death Mask" episode. Continue to provide the industry with such useful content. Cheers

[samco]

Love this. Though I’m nowhere near this stage (I’m just about to do my advanced haha). But from a students point of view this is so spot on. One of my instructors on my OW course totally put me off - he was a wealth of knowledge, but he was impatient and condescending. I could tell he loved diving, he lived for it. But his heart didn’t seem to be in instructing anymore. Since then, I’ve spent my time getting to know other instructors, and that’s how I chose who to do my advanced course with - the people who gave me the time of day, and knew their stuff, and had a great personal brand got my attention. I ended up following them to the dive school they teach through. But it was their personal brand that sold to me.

[meridiandive]

This is great advice and something I have been saying for years!

[kiser]

Scanned that QR code 2 weeks ago on your dry box after a Spiegel dive. Now binging your videos! 👏 👏
thank you for this awesome content!

[remcovanhal]

Just started Remco Diving in Spain for myself! Got my website, google bussiness, car decals, bussiness cards printed. Just need the clients now ;). Gonna be a great summer!

[jr]

fantastic advice for anyone. "own your brand" can be applied to almost any business any where in the world! thank you @divers ready for the knowledge, the motivation and drive to get it out there.

[JustinPhillipsScuba]

James this is one of the best videos I have seen so far. Thank you so much for doing this. Although I am not a Dive Master yet or beyond nothing wrong with getting things started now.

[doubleontherocks]

Own your brand. This applies to any business endeavour. Nowadays people tend to gravitate towards a business where the owner(s) themselves are visible and very much involved

[fnnyacuna]

Sabina! Best instructor ever! Yes she is my cousin but I visited sabina and joe in portland a year ago. And as she mentions cold water diving (especially if you come from a warm country like Mexico) it take you out of your comfort zone and Sabina is great in keeping you safe and having fun at the same time! Hope to visit them in Utila soon!

[hawaiimike]

That’s so cool Sabina is my instructor!! Lol we have my drysuit class starting on the 4th

[johnjones]

I’m on my way, and at 55 I have to say I’m excited about a second career. Hopefully by the end of the year or next year I’ll be there. I love your videos.

[dclangst]

I wish someone told me how hard getting pool time was. I’m so glad you said the domain thing. Nothing looks flybynight like a gmail business address. This is dead on. People see my shirt and ask where is blue tarp scuba and I say right here!

[Lucas.Piccinino]

Thanks james. i completed it today. This is all i need!!

[aaroncrumbley]

As a fellow dive pro and a long time follower, yet another excellent video! I must say yet again, thank you for great content! Keep up the excellent work!

[josipkolakovic]

Thank you souch for this video. I'm finishing dive master course and planning to be instructor down the line and this was mind blowing. I never thought about being professional in this way. This was such eye opener and I know it will help me when I start progressing as a professional. I love watching your videos and looking forward for more advice like this

[barryinkpen]

So true so true! I am not a dive professional but after 50 years of diving I have seen the "two types" so many times and I have seen friends and family take dive courses that were absolute crap! When someone asks me where to take a course now, I tell them a shop and a specific instructor. They are much more likely to "happily" keep diving if they get good instruction from a passionate instructor who's in it for the long term..

[lakispattalis]

James, why do you have be so far away! I have almost finished my BSAC Dive Leader course then hoping to continue on as assistant instructor etc. I am blessed with my instructors, who are not only advanced dive instructors, but are always on hand to pass on the little bit of knowledge that only true experience with teach. Despite the distance and difference in certification, the fundamental teaching is the same, but your vids are always spot on. All the best from the UK. And maybe, one day, will have the pleasure to dive with you. Take care.

It's a verry nice vidéo ! Actualy i'm trying since two years to follow this direction "creating my brand" as dive instructor, so i realy agree with you :D Thanks for sharing so much tips ;)