Planning a scuba diving trip around the world
This is a crazy idea I have in my head since the start of 2021. COVID-19 stucked me in my home, and gave me the opportunity to create great saving habits and make my business profitable.
I reached a point on Scuba diving, where I now want to live a lot of different experiences. It took me two years to win confidence about diving skills, as well as certifications.
When I’m watching the best destinations for diving, I’m really like I want to make it all. Egypt, Indonesia, French Polynesia, Mexico, New Caledonia, Australia, Maldives, Caraibes, Greece, Malta, Madagascar, Iceland, Israel…
There’s so much awesome diving site in the world that I want to do. So why not making a scuba diving round-the-world trip?
I had the chance with my co-founder to create strong remote culture and a free travelling policy but I never fully take advantage of this. I never travelled alone either. This is a challenge that I can make maybe once in my life, and it’s better to be done before I get too old, or my company get too big.
So let’s try to plan something like this.
Todo
Like the Chinese proverb says:
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Before trying to get any flight ticket, let’s break down some of the planning steps, by answering questions.
Where?
- Choose the countries
- For each countries, what are the specs? Power supply, currency, travel visa, admins?
- Create a roadmap and order the countries
- For each countries, choose the diving sites
- Where to live and sleep?
- Countries where I have family?
How much?
- How much will it cost, or different, how much money could I get out?
- Planning every expenses
- What’s the risks and how to count this?
- Once I know the amount, how much do I need to save money in order to be ready?
- If it’s too much money, how about borrowing?
- How about creating a business model around the travel? Sponsors? Content creation?
- If this isn’t profitable, how about planning some remote work 1 or 2 days per week?
When?
- When do I start?
How long?
- How long can I be in travel mode without putting my business on pause?
- How long would I stay in each country?
Who?
- Do I go alone or do I find a travel partner?
What?
- What are the Pre-requesites?
- What equipment do I take with me?
- What to do in order to make safe trips? Insurance, vaccines?
- What are the administrative requirements?
- What flight tickets?
- What kind of dives do I want to do?
- What did I buy before?
- What did I buy on site?
Resources
- World best diving sites (FR) - Tourdumondiste
- Basicaly, anything on “Tourdumondiste.com”