Author: Joaquin Costa

When you find yourself tired of the same boring life you can start wondering how to begin a more exciting job and way of life. If you enjoy scuba diving, then the question is : why not working in the diving industry.  Finding a diving job is not very difficult, the key point is to know what sort of certifications do you need and how to apply for the vacancies around  the world.

To become a professional diving instructor you need to complete many scuba  diving courses, get a lot of experience and dive a lot. It always help if you can speak another language of have experience in other fields, like First Aid,  Management, boat skills, mechanics, etc. 
 
To become a dive professional you need to do 2 vital courses the Divemaster  and the PADI IDC . The Divemaster course will give you the option of working as a guide, this is a nice job, but the salary is usually lower that the salary a scuba diving instructor makes. To become a scuba diving instructor you need to do your PADI IDC course. 
One you complete these courses, you need to apply to scuba jobs around the  world. Before you go straight to scuba diving jobsites, try to think carefull about your objectives and about the kind of employement conditions you want and the countries you are willing to travel. 
 
Not all the jobs are the same and working in Australia is very different than working in Honduras or Egypt. You need to be smart and think with your head, and work towards getting the best diving certificates that will give you the highest chances of finding that ideal dive job.