How I teach

Everyone is different, and I don’t think there’s one single way to learn diving. However, there is a defined set of performance requirements that students need to fulfill to be qualified divers at each level – the path may vary, but the finish line is always the same. Each level is also the foundation for further training. As an instructor, it is my responsibility to keep these three aspects in mind at all times: to adapt the way I teach to the student’s needs, to make sure that every student I certify is competent, confident, and comfortable at the current level of training, and to ensure that everything I teach is suitable to serve as a foundation for further training without the need to unlearn or relearn.

I believe that my personal dive experience in a wide range of environments, from tropical reefs to deep ocean dives to the insides of wrecks and caves, on a wide range of equipment configurations (backmount, sidemount, rebreather, drysuit, scooter, …), my ongoing engagement with diving-related subjects as a writer, editor, and translator, and not least my passion for working with people and sharing my love of the underwater world, as well as the joy it gives me to see my students smiling proudly at the end of a long training day, are what makes me stand out as an instructor.

Interested? Contact me to ask about courses in Taiwan and the Philippines.