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  1. emoreira's Avatar
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    I have just started the Dive Guide course under SSI. All my diving career up to now was done in the same Dive School, so, when I did the Master Diver course and I was under the sight of the Instructor Trainer owner of the school, he offered me be part of the staff of the school, to help them while I learn what's on the other side of the counter. This also meant the organization of dive travels, tank filling, etc.
    The first thing that a Dive Guide brings is that from now on you are diving for others, unless you dive for diving, but diving as a Dive Guide means that you are there underwater to take care for the other divers (safety and enjoyment). If you dive for diving, normally you can choose your buddy, and you are, first of all, responsible for yourself. Diving as a Dive Guide, you are responsible for the whole group and you don't know who is in the group, a fish, a vacation diver, a paniker, any one.
    Once you get the Master Diver Card, which is the last recreational diver valuation, there two paths. Go to the Instruction side or to the Tech side, or follow both. If I want to be part of the dive industry I had to choose the Instruction path.