What can you expect when you follow the divemaster program? How hard is it to become a dive instructor?
www.gopro-divetalk.com is a site for everyone who is becoming a PADI dive professional or has the ambition to become one.
Journalist Yvonne van der Valk and photographer Valentijn started this website to share their experiences about going Pro and to let other Go Pro'ers talk as well. At Koh Tao, an island in the Gulf of Thailand, they started their divemaster training. After they are certified they will continue to become instructors.
In fifteen months time they cycled from their home country Holland to dive paradise Thailand. Since they love traveling, eternal sunshine and living under palm trees they wanted to work here for a while as PADI dive instructors. But first they had to become one.
Yvonne: “after all those months of cycling it was great to be in the water again. But suddenly I felt insecure about my diving abilities. Students were watching me now and expected me to be a role model. For example, the first time I had to send up a safety sausage I got completely entangled in it. A hilarious sight for sure and I was quite disappointed in myself. When I started talking about it to the other divemaster trainees it became apparent they had all similar stories. We couldn't stop laughing about ourselves. That same evening we decided to start
www.gopro-divetalk.com, so everyone can read those experiences, learn from it and feel that they are not alone in 'the struggle' to become pro's.”