As a dive center owner, you could be forgiven for wondering when you joined the circus. With all the juggling of tasks and responsibilities, all that’s missing is a lion and a unicycle. It’s not just that you have a…
Bill MatthiesNovember 23, 2021
Editor’s Note: With online training in scuba instruction becoming more prevalent, and a dropout rate and customer disconnect much higher than with traditional learning, blended learning models (a combination of online and personal classroom-type instruction) are being used more by…
Cathryn Castle GarciaAugust 23, 2021
If you’ve been an instructor for a few decades, you can easily cite the tremendous innovations in learning technology. From the days of mimeographed training manuals and chalk talks, to white boards and slide carousels, to multimedia training, it has…
Robert N. RossierJuly 9, 2021
How many times have you dropped below the surface at the start of a dive in the ocean, lake, quarry, even the pool and almost instantly felt at one with the underwater world? You felt relaxed, peaceful, as if the…
Donna AskewJune 23, 2021
If you don’t tell, they won’t know. If they don’t know, you can’t sell. If you don’t sell, they won’t buy. Just about every dive center offers private scuba classes. Of course some stores are more successful than others with…
Donna AskewOctober 29, 2020
