The first step you can take to learn to dive in a right way is to choose a good diving scuba instructor. Only those who have experienced diving with a bad diving instructors know how important this step is.

Few Things to Consider

If you are interested in scuba diving and you decide to have diving training, you should try to scuba dive with a specific instructor once at least to give yourself an opportunity to know whether you are comfortable with him and his teaching style or not.

There are training standards PADI instructions to follow to be a certified PADI scuba instructor. If you want to know your instructor is good standing with with the PADI quality department, you can use PADI pro check.

Asking family, friends and scuba divers to recommend a scuba instructor for you is an important step before deciding.

You can ask some questions to the scuba instructor to gause their enthusiasm for diving and determine the extent of your compatibility with him, these questions include:

• Do you love diving teaching or you just do that for make ng money?
• Do you prefer diving locally? Why? And where?
• How can you help your students overcome their challenges underwater? Describe one situation.

Remember to share your scuba fears

With the scuba instructor and make sure he has a genuinely caring response . If he dismess your feelings, exclude him and find another instructor.

There are several teaching styles according to the type of dive master, as the type of teaching of wreck diving you are taught by an underwater archeologist is different on comparing to when you are taught by wreck diving enthusiast.

If you didn’t understand the previous point well, remember you were at school, did you prefer teachers who used stories to explain or those who delve into the topic directly?

Learning Diving Locally

As a Drar Diving Company, we encourage you to strongly support your local PADI dive shop and the local PADI scuba instructors for many reasons. If there are only one local instructor in your town and he didn’t fit you, you can consider a PADI Open-Water referral. 

There are many tips to follow on signing up for scuba training. If you are deciding to get a seat in your first diving training, we recommend to you reading this article: How to 5 Tips to Choose an Authoritative Dive Shop.

FAQs

How many dives do you need for dive instructor?

You need 60 logged dives and 100 dives at least.

Who is the best to get scuba certified through?

PADI is considered the recommended organization you can certified through. It is an abbreviation for The Professional Association of Diving Instructors.

What makes a good scuba instructor?

A good scuba instructor must has good diving experience and be super comfortable while being in water.

Can you dive without instructor?

Only certified PADI divers are allowed to dive recreationally on their own without any supervision of scuba instructor.