How much to build a scuba diving company in Asia? We have been looking at this question and we feel that we have a pretty good idea. For you, you will need to ask yourself some questions to get an idea of what your ideal dive center will look like.
The biggest problem with dive centers is that they are very cash intensive on the front end, especially if you need boats for your dive operation.
* the first question is will you need boats?
* Can you rent boats or seats on boats where you will be diving?
the Next question is how many divers will you be servicing PADI says that you can have 8 divers with one divemaster or instructor. You need to ask yourself what levels of service are you going to offer 8 divers behind a DM or Instructor is not a very good experience in most peoples book. We feel that the ideal number is one for each hand or maybe one couple for each hand any more than that is a gaggle and by the time that the tail of the group gets to the item of interest if it is a fish the fish is gone.
* how many instructors DM will you have on staff? take that number x 4
Once you know that number you can start to figure out what your dive equipment needs are. A SWAG is about $1000 a set of gear for school sets that will include 1 tank. Most dive centers will want a minimum of two tanks per customer on hand.
Compressors you can figure with a brand new compressor that you will get two seasons out of it before you will start to get problems and then you will want to have a 2nd compressor ready to come online. Ideally the compressors will be a matched pair, so that if one goes down, you can cannibalize the 2nd for parts till you can get it running again with the ideal being that you always have two online as your SOP. The compressor is the heart of the dive center no air = no diving..
A decent compressor like a Coltri Sub MCH 16 will cost under 7,000 USD, a similar Bauer will cost over 10,000 USD. Just like buying dive equipment you want to be able to get repair parts locally so that should drive your decision for most logical thinkers.
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