Hi guys, I'm in a bit of a spot (as usual)
Ok background : I'm a university student in the UK and am currently a PADI DM and I worked with a diving company in sunny singapore for the last 6 months.
Now, being a uni student, i am effing poor. So I need to do this the cheapest way possible. With the university diving club, everything operates at cost price so the BSAC instructor course seems to be really cheap (all in all roughly £300-400)
The PADI OWSI course (with exam and blah blah) appears to be somewhere in the region of £1000 (am i right here? correct me if my figures are totally off please)
So i was thinking, lets take the BSAC courses (For Dive Leaders the Instructor Foundation Course is an excellent introduction to teaching our sport, this is followed by the Open Water Instructor Course, Theory Instructor Exam and Practical Instructor Exam.) and then convert them to PADI OWSI and bingo! hello egypt! hey there gorgeous! hello sun! hello still-alive wallet!
now the problem is this :
1) did i get my figures right? or would it make more sense to go padi straight away.
2) how much does it cost to covert it to a padi owsi?
3) does the bsac instr have a yearly fee like padi does?
4) if i get my bsac inst, convert to padi, can i then choose to not stay a current bsac instr (dont pay the yearly fee) and just pay the padi yearly fee and teach and cert people with padi open water?
5) is there something else in the fineprint i missed out on?
thanks in adv dudes!
Ok background : I'm a university student in the UK and am currently a PADI DM and I worked with a diving company in sunny singapore for the last 6 months.
Now, being a uni student, i am effing poor. So I need to do this the cheapest way possible. With the university diving club, everything operates at cost price so the BSAC instructor course seems to be really cheap (all in all roughly £300-400)
The PADI OWSI course (with exam and blah blah) appears to be somewhere in the region of £1000 (am i right here? correct me if my figures are totally off please)
So i was thinking, lets take the BSAC courses (For Dive Leaders the Instructor Foundation Course is an excellent introduction to teaching our sport, this is followed by the Open Water Instructor Course, Theory Instructor Exam and Practical Instructor Exam.) and then convert them to PADI OWSI and bingo! hello egypt! hey there gorgeous! hello sun! hello still-alive wallet!
now the problem is this :
1) did i get my figures right? or would it make more sense to go padi straight away.
2) how much does it cost to covert it to a padi owsi?
3) does the bsac instr have a yearly fee like padi does?
4) if i get my bsac inst, convert to padi, can i then choose to not stay a current bsac instr (dont pay the yearly fee) and just pay the padi yearly fee and teach and cert people with padi open water?
5) is there something else in the fineprint i missed out on?
thanks in adv dudes!