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In this video Scuba Diver Life explores the fabulous corals and drift scuba diving that Cozumel has to offer. We met up with Dive Cooperative who led us through our entire adventure!
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I have my open water diving certificate, but have not been able to do much with it because of the expense. I would like to continue learning to Dive and plan to travel once I have finnished my University degree. Does anyone know a good cheap place to go?
Where are you currently living? How cheap is ‘cheap’? ‘Safe’ in what sense?
If you know where to look, there are cheap but good quality dive courses offered in Central America, Thailand, the Mediterranean, and the Red Sea (primarily Egypt, where the tourist diving industry is actually fairly well-regulated). But anywhere there’s no effective judicial system, you run the risk of finding dodgy operators. Far North Queensland probably has the cheapest quality-controlled courses in the world, but that’s really only useful to Australians (and backpackers!).
I would also point out that, if you’re going to fly somewhere tropical in search of a cheap dive course, your ‘course price’ also includes the cost of the flight, including near-unavoidable baggage charges if you want to take divegear with you.
In Part 5 of our series on Scuba Diving, http://www.WatchMojo.com learns a few of the most important skills you’ll learn when you first begin to Scuba Dive with an instructor.
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I don’t mean like a part time thing, I want a career. One that pays quite well and is really fun. Traveling to cool places and diving on the reefs. Something in recreational diving is probably what I would want. Still well paying, though.
Recreational Diving + Well-Paying is hard to find. You could work as a dive instructor, but don’t expect to make $60k+ a year. The only folks that make this kind of money are course directors (folks who teach people to be instructors).
That said, your credentials as a dive instructor can open doors to other, better paying gigs. Check out the link below. It’s a smattering of dive instructor jobs along with other opportunities like working for NASA, The Smithsonian, etc.
The best way to go is get your instructor credentials (PADI is the most widely accepted) and pair it with something else: a marine biology degree, experience shooting/editing underwater video, get your captain’s license, etc.
SCUBAZOO Video of Scuba diving at Sipadan Island, Malaysia. http://www.scubazoo.com/
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