Simon Pridmore’s ‘Scuba Professional: Insights into Sport Diver Training & Operations’ to be released as Audiobook

“The ultimate backstage pass into the business of scuba.” Jill Heinerth

Scuba Professional follows on from Simon Pridmore’s first book, Scuba Confidential – An Insider’s Guide to Becoming a Better Diver. Whereas Scuba Confidential focused on how to scuba dive, Scuba Professional looks at how diving is taught and how dive operations are conducted.

Scuba Professional has been available worldwide via Amazon in paperback and e-book versions since September 2015. It is now available as an Audiobook, narrated by Simon himself, via Audible, Amazon and iTunes.

Scuba Professional is an excellent source of out-of-the-box ideas and independent, objective advice for instructors and dive operators. It is also an indispensable guide for those aspiring to become dive professionals with chapters such as “Do You Have What It Takes?” and “Which Training Agency?” In short, this is everything you wanted to know about working in scuba diving but never dared to ask.

Scuba Professional also offers fascinating insights into the sport that all divers will appreciate. Simon looks ideas for developing aspects of diving’s safety culture. He also examines the present state of the industry and analyses recent trends with a view to the future of the sport.

Simon has been teaching diving and training dive instructors for the last 25 years. He was one of the pioneers of technical diving in Asia and has owned a dive centre and two regional diver training agency franchises. He has written articles for a host of dive magazines and spoken about diving at conferences on four continents. He knows this industry!

“There is quite simply nothing like this book: the ultimate backstage pass into the business of scuba.” Jill Heinerth, Technical Instructor Trainer & Filmmaker

Terrific, really good! Simon captures the key characteristics of the diving instruction milieu with insight and clarity.” Associate Professor Simon Mitchell, Diving Physician

“A must-read for anyone considering making a career out of diving.” Michael Menduno, founder aquaCORPS Journal

“I wish this book had been available 20 years ago!” Tamara Thomsen, Master Instructor, Cave Instructor & Owner Diversions Scuba, Madison