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Recreational Scuba Diving/ Technical Diving Course Standards And Procedures, Not Forgetting For Proper Pricing Quality Check Imposed For All Scuba Diving Course Offered In Market...

Guess all Mass market scuba divers, wont like it if we all are being charged of Boutique pricing charges, sorry if I am to offend anyone here but each time I send out an enquiry, each time I experience the same... So tedious and troublesome to keep sending same enquiries to all dive centers, but getting different replies, and then have to troubleshoot and figure out which one is professional, which one is following market standard and which one we can listen or follow with? Maybe its the Branding, like perhaps this dive center is so famous and recognised, or this instructor is super high level/professional or well known, then charge me super expensive. So, is it good to pay? Will I learn more or learn professionally even after I paid so much? Then this is the risks taken and involved.

Someone quoted me 3 to 5 times and above the market pricing charges for a Technical Diving Course or even for some leisure wreck dives ... Wow !!! and more Wow!!! -> This person has to explain to me why the charges are so high... And based on our past years of Scuba diving trips and experience, this person cannot smoke us of the super exorbitant pricing packages charged to us. Phew!

Recreational Scuba Diving/ Technical Diving Course Standards And Procedures, Not Forgetting For Proper Pricing Quality Check Imposed For All Scuba Diving Course Offered In Market... This is not a challenge imposed to all instructors or stir dramas here but its can be really confusing for the students, especially the pre-requisites, the min. logged dives required or even the pricing packages based... Starting from OW Scuba diving courses offered in the market. Be it whether its a shore dive, or boat dive or liveaboard, please share more openly more details so that the student can access how reasonably priced the pricing package the student can afford to pay or can pay. And not pay because you deem that you have all years of teaching experiences and can quote a super high pricing...

Before proceeding for any new Scuba diving course learning, be sure to check PADI or SDI or SSDI, ERDI, or TDI website or even this website -> https://www.tdisdi.com for all the Course Standards and Procedures PDF copies, for reference based purposes for all students scuba divers. Whether on the min. pre-requisites or the min. logged dives met or even the pricing if possible...

Not sharing the names of these instructors openly on FB for the sake of not smearing their names/ reputation but please be more fair to the students. As much as you can quote for the pricing packages, coz of your years of teaching experiences or even you as the Course Director teaching solo, but there must also be reasons understandable to why the student has to be charged so much of the learning fees...

Don't just blindly go for all Scuba diving courses before doing your own research... More research and checking should be done prior to your course learning... Does it applies to PADI / SDI / SSDI Scuba diving courses around the world as well?

Just did some enquiries over to Bali Indonesia, about the Technical Diving course requirements and pricing packages, and we realised that pricing varies so much just for one particular tech diving course and even so, one or two tech diving instructors, claimed to be Course Directors can also forget the pre-requisites and mini required dives for the proposed student client based on the level of diving for the proposed student client, so that both parties can match both expectations then the student and instructor can also benefit both ways...

Sometimes, the responsibility or liability shouldn't just lie on students, coz they are the ones not sure or just started their technical / scuba diving trainings, and the pre-requisites or min dive requirements to be met or pricing packages should be clear and transparent across all dive centers, so that the student client will not be confused... Now I am very confused, which professional technical diving instructor or even Course Directors' replies should we both listen to, follow and adhere to ???


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