About Steve Prior
Steve Prior
Steve Prior is a PADI Course Director (PADI 53442).
He has been awarded Platinum Status for 12 consecutive years..
He founded his own PADI 5 star centre, and has managed large dive centres in Egypt and Indonesia.
He has issued over 5,700 PADI certifications. Mostly at professional level.
Everything changed in Steve’s life back in July 1992.
That’s when he became a PADI Instructor.
To say it changed his life is an understatement. Because his passion is to help other scuba divers reach the highest goals of their dreams.
Life Coaching
He became a PADI Course Director in October 2000. That led to the study of psychology that transformed his IDCs.
They became more like life coaching sessions. Consequently, hundreds of current PADI Instructors are enjoying the success of helping others to learn.
Coaching Academy
Steve’s passion led him to developing a Coaching Academy for PADI professionals.
Here people learn how to coach their students by allowing them to learn.
That way, they can’t do anything other than learn using their own preferred learning style.
Steve Prior
Steve became a PADI Course Director back in October 2000.
Over the years he developed many techniques that helped people pass PADI Dive Theory and PADI Standards exams.
YouTube
For example, his YouTube channel has over 5000 subscribers and over 450,000 views. And his regular update and Coaching Academy classes helps people from all over the world become confident with teaching PADI exams.
Coaching Academy
Steve has developed a Coaching Academy for PADI professionals, which focuses on natural ways for people to learn and to teach.
Platinum Award
He has taught over 5700 PADI certifications and reached the prestigious “Platinum Status” for 12 consecutive years. You’ll see on the videos, he is just as passionate now as he ever was.
- Steve has 25 years of experience in helping people pass PADI exams
- He knows the importance of keeping current
- He has personally written all 700+ questions that you’ll use to monitor your progress
- He shows you the same techniques he teaches on his Advanced Coaching Academy courses
- Explains Dive Theory simply
- Explains how to give Briefings, Debriefings, Demonstrations etc..
- He teaches in a friendly “non jargon” fashion
- He has helped hundreds of people using his Distance Learning program
- Lot’s of “ah ha!” moments
- He updates all of his courses every year to reflect PADI’s changes
- This is the only course that teaches Theory and How to teach in the pool and classroom
- No Prior Knowledge necessary
- Several Mock Exams written in the same format and content as the PADI IE exams
What people have been saying about my online training.
- “Worth every penny. The Mock Exams helped me massively when I signed up to do my IDC.”
- Hey Steve Prior ! I’m here to thank you for the amazing explanations you provide via YouTube and your IDC prep course. I am finishing it at this moment , you do a great job !
- “Helped me pass my IDC back in 2017”
- “I may have changed agency, but I still implement methods I learned from you that are beyond successful!”
- “I did my IDC with Steve Prior. You will be in safe hand one of the best Courses Directors I have ever had the pleasure of meeting.”
- “You won’t regret it at all, Prior Knowledge helps take a lot of the dark confusion away and makes the complicated, simple and enjoyable. Enjoy it and good luck.”
- “Thanks so much, your video help me alot as im really nervous having exam in the next couple of days. Its been 6 years ago since my last time learning erdpml. Your video bring back my confidence, thanks”
- “Honestly, just do it ,it’s the best preparation you can have.”
- “Even though I was well prepped for my IDC, Steve Prior course helped to fine tune my theory. The mock exams are great and his methodology on explaining the various theory sections of diving are just great. Keep it up steve.”
- “The BEST physics prep you can get.”
- “I did my IDC and IE back in May 2018 and am still so grateful to you and the team.”
- “I did my IDC last February and found it easier to study Steve Prior course before I did the PADI e-learning.
I found the videos and quizzes explained things simply and I understood all sections before I moved into my e-learning.
Another tip…..I watched Steve’s videos twice….once to absorb and once to make notes.”
- “Thanks for this Steve! Best and most clear demo for ERDPML I’ve ever seen. Before I watched this video I think I’d probably have avoided it forever!”
Join Our Family!
The “Prior Knowledge Family” Facebook page is packed with people just like you. Why don’t you join up to meet them? Some are very experienced and some just starting out on the road to being a PADI pro.
Everyone is friendly, all willing to give helpful advice. Many of them have done previous courses with me over the past 20 years.
Many of them are studying for their IDC.
They’re all enthusiastic and passionate about helping others.
Please join us! You can give feedback on your PADI IDC Coaching Academy Course, pick up tips, get advice and ask questions. It’s a very friendly group.