Read here to see how close your intro dive is to an ISO approved programme and find out how to become a leader in your market Follow these simplified DSD guidelines and reap the rewards Missing a trick? Do you have enough Open Water Divers?
Our most successful centres at diver acquisition are those that have a proactive Discover Scuba Diving (DSD) programme, targeted at securing entry level divers.
Thought it was too difficult to run the operation and market the centre at the same time?
Time to give it a go!Discover Scuba Diving made easy DSD’s can be conducted in a Pool, Confined Open Water and Open Water.
The aim is to give the participant an experience they will not forget and hopefully encourage them to complete a PADI entry level course.
Review the DSD Instructor Guide in the PADI Instructor Manual for further detailed information if required.DSD in a pool or confined open water.
Are you a Divemaster holding the DSD Leader rating, an Assistant Instructor or above?
If so, you can do this.
DSD participants complete and sign the PADI Discover Scuba Diving Brochure
Have participants complete and sign the Discover Scuba Diving Knowledge and Safety Review.
Conduct briefing
Help new divers put on and adjust their scuba equipment.
Skill performance requirements are conducted in shallow water before moving to water too deep in which to stand.
Have participants complete and sign the Discover Scuba Diving Knowledge and Safety Review.
Conduct briefing
Help new divers put on and adjust their scuba equipment.
Skill performance requirements are conducted in shallow water before moving to water too deep in which to stand.
You may not engage in any other activities, such as taking photographs or video, while supervising participants
Demonstrate and have students master Inflation and deflation of a BCD at the surface
Directly supervise new divers as they breathe underwater and swim around in shallow water. When comfortable, take them on tours in deeper water as appropriate.
Demonstrate and have students master Inflation and deflation of a BCD at the surface
Directly supervise new divers as they breathe underwater and swim around in shallow water. When comfortable, take them on tours in deeper water as appropriate.
Debrief divers
Promote your PADI Scuba Diver, PADI Open Water Diver Programme or Scuba Connect Programme
Register your DSD participants online In a nutshell! – Conduct a PADI DSD any time a customer wants to experience diving in a pool or confined body of water.
Promote your PADI Scuba Diver, PADI Open Water Diver Programme or Scuba Connect Programme
Register your DSD participants online In a nutshell! – Conduct a PADI DSD any time a customer wants to experience diving in a pool or confined body of water.
The only required inwater skill relates to BCD use on the surface. There is no maximum or minimum time requirement; this is left to you.
After the poolsession it is important you ask the participant about continuing to the OWD course imediatly:
Have OWD Crew packs available, "start to day".
Have a schedule about the next course start.
PADI eLearning could work for many students, make sure you have the link on your web page.
Help your participants to sign on to the OWD Course, make it easy and fun!
A DSD experience is the most successful programme to generate new customers, especially if the centres are using freshly certified divers to share their experience at the end of the DSD. It’s within PADI standards to have a PADI Open Water or Advanced Open Water Diver helping with the logistics of organizing equipment and other materials used in the programme, motivation and registration at the end of the DSD experience. (They can’t supervise, be used as a certified assistant or in any way conduct the experience or any of its elements.)
The registration ratio is very often close to 80% if the emphasis is well positioned (end of the programme).
A closer analysis of German Dive Centres in 2006 has confirmed that the DSD is crucial for the good health of a business.
A closer analysis of German Dive Centres in 2006 has confirmed that the DSD is crucial for the good health of a business.
Centres who conducted the DSD experience and actively promoted the Open Water Diver course during the experience found a significant uplift in their business.
