{"id":75,"date":"2015-06-21T03:49:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T03:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divehq.co.nz\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2015-07-01T01:50:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T01:50:53","slug":"professional-scuba-instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/professional-scuba-instruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Scuba Instruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

Graduated from Dive HQ Christchurch <\/u>\u2013 Diploma in Professional SCUBA Instruction \u2013 Qualified PADI Staff Instructor<\/p>\n

\u201cI love seeing my students faces when they take their first breath underwater\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2013 I signed up to do an Instructor course at Dive HQ Christchurch. \u00a0I started with my Open Water in Picton, it was such an awesome weekend through which I made friends that I still dive with to this day.<\/p>\n

\"Mel<\/a><\/p>\n

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Some of the best experiences have been helping out\u00a0as a Dive Master on weekend courses to Lake Coleridge or Kaikoura. \u00a0I got to meet so many different people, and help to introduce them to SCUBA Diving.<\/p>\n

I am very lucky to have such variety\u00a0of work\u00a0at Dive HQ. I am mainly teaching tertiary students who will also become Instructors, and I go on recreational dive courses that are run on the weekend such as Open Water and Advanced Open Water courses. I also\u00a0work in the shop and help out teaching the part time Dive Master course as well. The biggest highlight of my job is seeing students\u2019 progress from knowing nothing about SCUBA\u00a0Diving to being able to plan and complete dives with little or no help from me. \u00a0I\u00a0also get to\u00a0dive some pretty awesome places such as Motunau, Akaroa and the Marlborough Sounds.<\/p>\n

While working as an Instructor at Dive HQ Christchurch, I have been continuing my training and have recently become a PADI Staff Instructor.<\/p>\n

My best advice to someone who is considering doing a diploma in professional scuba instruction is \u201cJust go for it!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Graduated from Dive HQ Christchurch \u2013 Diploma in Professional SCUBA Instruction \u2013 Qualified PADI Staff Instructor \u201cI love seeing my students faces when they take their first breath underwater\u201d In 2013 I signed up to do an Instructor course at Dive HQ Christchurch. \u00a0I started with my Open Water in Picton, it was such an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/divehq.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}