Starting a dive business (WORTH IT?)

We might look busy now, but is starting a scuba diving shop and teaching facility worth it in the end?
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[@richardhowe5583]

If you are doing what you love and if it is not work but enjoyment every day all day long I think it would be worth it to have a business that you really love. I have owned several businesses through my lifetime and all I can say is, when I went to sleep at night it was on my mind and when I woke up in the morning it was the first thing I thought about.. I even dreamed about it and was working in my dreams.. it stayed on my mind all day everyday.. it even stayed on my mind for a while after I sold it.. I wish you and your crew lots of good times and lots of happiness and good health👍👍😎🤗🍺🍻👙😁..ps.. see you all soon and after I arrive my fiance and myself will be talking to you and your crew about taking a beginner's course👍👍

[@smartbiz888]

Things are popping! The options for diving locations are pretty cool, great place to base your operations from... Your crew is impressive, all extremely pleasant and qualified... The second channel idea is a good one, tons of people all over the world will pay attention... Enjoy your weekend, big high five to your family and team! 🙏🙏🙏 👍😎👍

[@olyman63]

Amazing show thank you sharing it with us. Have a great Sunday

[@CritterHunter]

Thank you! You too!

[@claribelpalomares260]

If you're loving what you're doing and gives you joy/fulfillment, then all the effort/time/money are worth it. Just go go go and live your dream! Thanks for the video. Happy Sunday!

[@guardianmiketv1586]

Good Work, enjoyable TY for upload!

[@CritterHunter]

Our pleasure, thanks!

[@riderdiver1]

You have a good bunch of people there Justin. Great to see the young ones keeping it interesting, and inspiring other young ones to get into diving. Well done

[@CritterHunter]

Couldn't agree more! Thank you so much!

[@bluefish4999]

Harness/backplate BCDs are the only way to go, and side mount would only be worth it if I was to become a cave diver, which I have no interest in, though I love the deep cenotes in Mexico(you want to talk about - cold water!🥶😄). Cool to see the house shore diving, I'm pretty lucky to have a shore diving reef where I live, no boat needed just your leg power.

[@nevergiveup-db6fp]

Hey princess, I’m glad to hear you’re taking it easy down to 18 m did you go to Appo yet and jump off the boat?

[@jeffzimmermanr.n.5879]

We are looking to move to the Dumagete area in a few years and I would love to hook up with you guys and be a dive master with you.

[@BobJohnson-xg9ng]

Will travel to PI end of this year, visiting family, but will take a week to dive. Do you rent cameras? My old equipment is obsolete and it doesn't make sense to buy new because I don't dive as much anymore. I used my GoPro in Coron last year, was fine, but GoPros don't do critters.

[@BobJohnson-xg9ng]

Video.

[@CritterHunter]

No I don't really rent cameras

[@josephdracula7487]

👍😎🤿🇵🇭!!!!

[@bigtime911]

Do you see your shirts online. Are sizes true American sizes cause I am a big guy

[@CritterHunter]

Yes, link in description.

[@FullFinnoy]

How about re-breather course?

[@CritterHunter]

Maybe I should

[@billlloyd9755]

Justin, I want to go to Taha with you when my ears clear up. If they clear up.

[@juliabarnley7614]

Do they make carbon fibre back plates ?

[@CritterHunter]

Yes

[@juliabarnley7614]

What happened to the boat build ?

[@CritterHunter]

Waiting for wood

[@KingBeeStacker]

Hey do not let Elvis use your gear , If Mark is in the area floating on his pink noodle he may see Elvis in your gear and give him the old Ground Zero one two , followed by the MMA eye gouge

[@user-wl9gh6bk8g]

Not bad . . . but less camera time and more work

[@CritterHunter]

I don't know ow if you need paying attention, but camera time IS work bud

[@Wa_Garden_Troll]

I cant no for the life of me understand why people would take some courses, E.G. Night diveing ( do you take a training corse in drive your moto or auto at night, or take a class on hiking with a flashlight.) also do not understand paying to take a course on DPV or underwater scouter

[@CritterHunter]

You comparing diving at night to 40m depth to walking with a flashlight, tells me you'd benefit quite a bit with continued education. And dpv? Are you serious? Our tech dpv can go to 200m, as well as ascend mich too fast, and many other things that will kill you. We do not allow diver to take our dpv out without a certification showing they are qualified to run one.

[@Wa_Garden_Troll]

@CritterHunter i dive the puget sound. Dont need solo diving courses, dont need flashlight courses, and definitely dont need courses on current mitigation. Not to say that there are vaild course to take. Come to the PNW and do some hicking in the high cascades then tell me if my comparisons of 80ft underwater is roughly the same as 7000ft in the high mountains . So again, some course just dont make sense at all

[@michaelgrider8135]

Knowledge is power. Keep teaching.some people like yhe extra classes because it's fun and enlightening

[@CritterHunter]

@@Wa_Garden_Troll don't make sense to you maybe. I'm not going to sit here and argue about education, but there are plenty of new divers who have anxiety and want proper instruction.

[@richardhowe5583]

Apples and oranges my friend😮😮