Quick survey for divers - Help me with my university marketing project

[Subcooled]

The questions do not match U.K. diving. Most diving is planned and executed by the individual or a club. Commercial operators normally only take trainees looking to dive in warm water.

Same for Finland. Diving is organized by associations that have their own compressors and mixed gas solutions and boats (or whatever dinghy they might afford). We still need someone to repair and test our drysuits, service regs, do hydrostatic testing...

We have dive shops that don’t offer training, it’s no longer profitable

Same

All dive shops in the area support commercial dive operations

There used to be several dive shops or dive equipment manufacturers/sellers here, but the only one that only catered for rec divers is now gone. It had very little sales.

 

[Jonn]

I travel from Edmonton, Alberta to Victoria, BC twice a year for cold water diving. I’m doing that right now. Think I’m the only one though, the scene has not recovered post covid. Been begging my local Edmonton shops to get back into west coast tours for years now, no luck. Industry on the island is also shrinking.

 

[Wants2divemore]

Done.

For the question about cost of a local 2-tank boat dive, you should have a N/A option. There are no local boat dives offered in my area. The closest boat diving is NJ wreck diving (a 1.5 - 2 hour drive) which I wouldn't consider local.

 

[TrimixToo]

I’m a student working on a marketing project for my COMM_V 365 course. Being a diver I choose to model a fictitious dive shop for my business! I'll be exploring diver habits, travel preferences, and what people value most in dive shop services. The goal is to better understand how divers engage with local shops and destination diving experiences.

your input would be a huge help! The survey takes about 5 minutes and will only be used to further develop my final project.

Thanks for supporting a project and helping gather real-world insights.

COMM_V 365 Research Project

(Mods, please direct if I'm in the wrong area for something like this)

Submitted. However, note that I have every facility a dive shop does, all to myself, and some the average shop does not have. I have a compressor, mix my own gas, rebuilt my own regs, plan my own travel, and so on. I'm about as far from being a regular dive shop customer as you are likely to meet, and several people on the board are the same. If you are interested, and want the background, I know a former very successful dive shop owner pretty well. If you PM me I can ask him whether he will spend some time talking to you. If you actually want to open a shop his advice would be invaluable.