Alternate Careers — Making Career in Scuba Diving
Scuba diving is an adventure sport that unveils some of the mystery that surrounds the world´s oceans as you go deeper into the under water’s world. Scuba diving is easy to fall in love with.
This underwater adventure activity allows for freedom in ways that average life does not. Everything from the sound of the ocean to the feeling of weightlessness grants divers with a captivating experience that transports them to a new world, the Underwater World.
Scuba diving is a form of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus in order to breathe below the water’s surface. Divers usually carry oxygen-filled tanks on their back while they swim.
We can say that scuba is not only just an exercise but also a way to keep our soul, mind well enough. It helps us to think beyond imagination as we go deep inside the ocean. It further helps us to connect people.
In India, scuba diving is very famous and we can find in different tourist locations such as:
- Andaman
- Lakshadweep
- Goa
- Pondicherry
- Netrani Island in Karnataka
- Tarkarli in Maharashtra
- Kovalam in Kerala
- Havelock Island
- Neil Island
- Cinque Island
- Kadmat Islands
- Dwarka
- Bangaram Island
- The Aravind Wall
When we talk about Scuba diving as a career, many people won’t agree with this, because they cannot think career beyond conventional options like an MBA, engineering, doctor, etc. Not everyone can be a professional athlete, rock star or brain surgeon, but if we can keep our career centred on the things we love, then we’ll probably work hard at whatever it is we do and, in the long run, success will come.
For anyone who is naturally drawn to the underwater world, maintaining a focus on diving can help keep their lives exciting and fulfilling, even if they don’t get rich doing it. To be a scuba diver or instructor, people need a high amount of training, experience and certification.
Regardless of what we might choose as a career, the skills we gain through scuba diving can be of tremendous benefit, helping us to achieve a greater level of success. In learning to dive, we load our personal skills toolbox with a multitude of universal elements essential to virtually any career environment.
We take on and master a demanding spectrum of knowledge areas. We train and test our bodies, developing a high level of fitness. Progressing through training, we learn to accept personal responsibility and the importance of self-reliance, as well as the need for close and dedicated teamwork.
Throughout the entire process of becoming a diver, gaining experience, and achieving higher levels of certification, we gain a positive self-image that gives the confidence to pursue new goals and take on new challenges.
Within the diver’s toolbox lie a multitude of hard-won personal skills that apply universally. We learn discipline, stress management, organization, planning, and the ability to cope with the unexpected. These assets can help make us more successful not just in our career, but in life in general.
As a divemaster, assistant instructor or instructor, we gain skills and experience in teaching others, as well as leadership skills. Such skills and abilities can help us in virtually any field when we assume a leadership role and take on the responsibility of teaching or mentoring others.
The experience we gain working the sales floor of a dive centre can readily translate to any other form of retail sales. The experience and skills developed in running a dive centre can translate directly to the management of other types of businesses.
Perhaps more importantly, the converse is also true. Many of the skills we develop in other careers can be remoulded and adapted for success within the dive industry.
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