Life of a Singapore PADI Scuba Diving Instructor

How do you know when you are addicted to something?

When I first got into scuba diving, all I did was to Yahoo (no google at that time) diving information. Dive brands, dive schools, dive destination, diving trips etc

SO right now, what am I addicted to? See my powerbook bookmarks, clubsnap, wetpixel, digideep and many others, too much to be listing here. All the bookmarks is about underwater photography?

Why now? Why underwater photography? To be honest, I was never good in photography but really good with Photoshop. When PADI launched the Digital Underwater Photography, and part of the course entails using Photoshop, I thought to myself, this has to be it. My favorite specialty. However, I have not taught any students on it. To me, teaching is more than using the standard guides from PADI to teach. A good instructor must have relevance experience to share with students. This is one of the many reasons or excuses why I need to equip myself with a DSLR in order to teach.

One of my technical diving mentor once said “In order to teach tech, you must be really comfortable with tech diving or you must be diving beyond the depths. Only then, diving at 80 metres seem like taking a dip in the pool” Using this idea of his, I must travel to the dark side, using cameras from point and shoot to DSLR. Only be making such journeys, will I be happen to be confident in teaching DUP