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Dive instructor, be careful with your wishes.

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Preamble. "Men are wanted for dangerous travel. Salary reduced, penetrating cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success".  The indomitable Irish explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton placed this announcement recruiting men for one of his expeditions. The announcement intuits what the candidate will be exposed to if he embarks on that adventure! Although this announcement does not reflect the life that awaits an instructor, I subscribe as a notice to navigators: It will not be easy. This article starts from my personal experience. This does not reflect the entire group of diving professionals, but it is sure to be quite close. That is to say, almost all of us have experienced something similar. In my particular case I will not enter how or because I changed my life, I left everything and became a diving instructor to live in this profession. If this is the case, although it sounds strange to some, i