PADI Dues and Insurance

[mcdiver]

I chose not to renew my Instructors Certification and Liability Insurance this past year. Since I mainly teach private lessons or through Community Education classes, it has been rather slow the past 18 months.

I did receive and complete the PADI survey recently for those choosing not to renew, the survey covered a wide variety of issue and reasons for not renewing that you were given the opportunity to choose from. In addition to business being quite slow, the main reason that I did not renew is the darn liability insurnace. I figured that I had to have at least 8-10 students just to cover my costs of license renewal and liability insurnace.

Funny though, or at least I thought it was a little sad, but part of the survey had a lot to do with PADI stroking its ego.