Diving lessons — courses with an instructor and first dives
Diving lessons with an instructor mean a first dive in a pool, a certification course before a seaside vacation, or the next level after a break. Describe your experience and goal in an order and wait for responses. Or check lesson photos and client reviews, then send a request to the one you like.
Diving instructors
How much diving lessons cost
What affects the price
A course or a single dive
A try dive in a pool, a full certification course and guiding an already certified diver underwater are different services, priced differently.
Certification and materials
The certification fee at the training agency and the manual or online theory are often paid for separately from lessons with the instructor.
Gear and tanks
Renting a wetsuit, a BCD and a regulator, and filling the tanks, may be included in the price or charged separately.
Pool and open water
Pool entry, a dive fee at a quarry or lake, and the trip there may be added to the price.
Cold water
Outside the summer season, people often dive in quarries and lakes in a drysuit, which means pricier rental and sometimes a separate course.
Prices come from specialists' profiles on Nexperity and update automatically. You agree the final price with the specialist directly.
How to find a diving instructor
Two ways — pick the one that suits you
Pick a specialist yourself
- 1Open specialists' profiles and their work
- 2Send a request that describes the task
- 3Once accepted — contact the specialist directly
Post an order
- 1Describe the task, payment and the timing you want
- 2Receive responses from specialists
- 3Pick the best specialist and agree directly
- Free for clients
- Orders can be posted anonymously
- Your contacts open only after acceptance
- No commission on the deal
How to choose a diving instructor
- 1
The instructor's agency and status
Ask which agency the instructor teaches with — PADI, SSI, CMAS or another — and whether their status can be checked on its website. Nexperity does not check it.
- 2
Which certification you get
Ask which certification exactly you will receive after the course, where it is recognized and to what depth it allows you to dive.
- 3
Whose gear
Find out which gear the instructor provides and what you should have of your own, and when the regulators you will be given were last serviced.
- 4
The pool first
Ask how many sessions will take place in a pool or shallow water before you go into open water, and where those dives will be.
- 5
Health before diving
Ask whether a medical questionnaire or a doctor's note is needed, and mention any ear, heart or lung conditions. If in doubt, consult a doctor first.
What to put in the order
Who will learn: an adult or a child — and their age
Your experience: never dived, had a try dive, or already certified and at what level
Goal: a first taste of diving, a certification course, the next level or freediving
Whether you swim confidently and have your own gear: mask, fins, wetsuit
Where it suits you: a pool in your district, a quarry or a lake
When you want to start, whether there is a deadline, and payment — per lesson or per course
Questions about Nexperity
How Nexperity works — separately for clients and for specialists
For clients
Nothing. Searching for specialists, sending requests, posting orders and receiving responses are free.
No. You agree the price and the payment method with the specialist and pay them directly. Nexperity does not take payments and is not a party to your deal.
A request goes to one specialist — from their profile. An order is posted for everyone: specialists send you responses, and you choose which one to accept.
How the specialist will do the task, a price — fixed, a range, hourly or “on request” — and, optionally, an estimated timeline.
30 days from publication: all that time it is visible in the feed and specialists can send responses. The exact end date and time are shown on the order in your account. From that moment the order is closed and a response can no longer be accepted. You can cancel it earlier, and if no specialist turned up, post a new one.
Yes: you can hide your name and photo in an order. The anonymity lasts until acceptance — the specialist whose response you accept sees your name and photo. The task description is public: anyone visiting the site can read it.
Only after acceptance — when you accept their response or they accept your request. And only the contacts you chose to show.
After acceptance you see the contacts the specialist chose to show, and they see the ones you chose. You can also message on Nexperity when the chat is on: on an order you decide that, on a direct request the specialist does.
Once the work is done, mark the order or the collaboration completed in your account — then you can say whether you recommend the specialist. A review can only be left for a collaboration that happened through Nexperity: one per specialist, which you can change or delete at any time.
For specialists
Nothing for now: this is the free period, and no subscription is needed yet. Nexperity takes no commission on deals — you settle with the client directly.
Sign up, fill in your specialist profile and add your services — each with a category, a description and a price. Once the profile is complete, it appears in search and on the category pages.
Two ways: clients send you requests from your profile, which you can accept or decline; and you see public orders in your categories in your account and can respond to them.
You describe how you will do the task and give a price and, optionally, a timeline. The client compares responses and accepts one.
Contacts set to “Public” are visible to everyone on your profile. A client sees contacts set to “After connection” once you accept their request or they accept your response. “Hidden” ones are not revealed in new connections: a contact already revealed to a client stays visible to them.
Each service has a fixed price, a range, an hourly rate or “on request”. Prices show on your profile and in search results, and you agree the final price with the client.
Through search and the category pages of your services. The order depends on your clients' reviews — how many of them recommend you — and in search also on how well your services match the query.
A photo, a description, your region and way of working — online or in person — your contacts and a portfolio: photos of your work, each with a short caption if you like.
A client leaves a review after completed work, and only for a collaboration through Nexperity: they say whether they recommend you and may add a few words. Each client counts once, however many times you work together.
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