WSN for Instructors
A profile divers can actually find and book, a network of instructors who cover each other, and a live stage in front of 412,000 divers deciding where to certify.
Plans
One Open Water student pays for the year. Everything else is optional.
Freewith WSN membership
Your name, location, agencies, and the levels you teach appear in the instructor directory. Divers can find you, but they cannot book you here.
$149per year · 12% on WSN bookings
A full profile page, class listings with real dates, direct booking and payment, student messaging, verified reviews, and shop affiliations.
What you get
A profile that sells, a network that covers you, a stage to teach from, and tools that work on your own site.
Your profile
Most instructors are a name on a shop's staff page. This is the page that convinces a diver to pick you specifically — credentials, teaching style, real class dates, and reviews from students who actually certified with you.
Instructor Network
Freelancing is isolating. The Network is where instructors trade overflow students, cover each other's courses, compare pay rates by market, and find the next season's work.
Live streams
Host live Q&A and skills sessions on WSN. Aspiring divers ask the questions that stop them signing up, and you answer them — in front of an audience that can book you the moment the stream ends.
Widgets
Drop your WSN class schedule, booking flow, and reviews into the site you already have. One script tag, styled to your brand, always in sync with what you sell here.
Instructor Network
Included with Instructor Pro. Referral credit, cover requests, season contracts, and honest rate data.
Referral pass-through
Full class? Pass the student to a vetted instructor in your area and keep a 10% referral credit against your next WSN commission.
Cover requests
Post a course you cannot run. Instructors with matching ratings in your city get notified first.
Season board
Shops, resorts, and liveaboards post seasonal contracts. Apply with your WSN profile instead of a PDF résumé.
Rate benchmarks
What Open Water actually pays in Cozumel, Gili, Dahab, or the Keys. Sourced from real WSN bookings, not forum guesses.
Destination channels
Conditions, site closures, boat schedules, and who is hiring, per destination.
Continuing education
Peer sessions on teaching adaptive divers, difficult students, and moving into tech or freediving instruction.
Live streams
Pick a format, we promote it. Your bookable classes sit next to the player and the replay lives on your profile.
Ask an instructor
30-minute open Q&A for people who have never breathed off a regulator.
Weeknights · 20 min prep
Skill clinic
One skill, done properly. Buoyancy, mask clearing, SMB deployment, navigation.
Weekly series · replay on profile
Gear talk
What to buy first, what to rent, what the shop will not tell you.
Sponsor-eligible
Destination briefing
Live from your home site before high season, with your trips pinned below.
Promoted on destination pages
Streams sell courses
Every stream carries your bookable classes beside the player, and the replay stays on your profile. You see viewers, questions, and bookings attributed per session.
Widgets
Free with Instructor Pro. One script tag, no plugin maintenance.
Booking widget
Live class availability and checkout on your domain.
Course calendar
Auto-updating schedule for your training page.
Reviews block
Verified student reviews, styled to your site.
Profile badge
Verified instructor badge linking to your WSN profile.
Drop-in embed
<script
src="https://cdn.worldscubanetwork.com/embed.js"
data-instructor="ana-castillo"
data-widget="classes"
data-theme="light"
defer
></script>Included with Instructor Pro. Class dates and prices stay in sync with your WSN profile.
Add-ons
A-la-carte modules for instructors building their own presence. We will tell you when Manta One is the cheaper answer.
Where this stops making sense
Four modules cost more than the whole platform.
Website, booking, chat, and CRM together run $122/mo. Manta One Core is $199/mo and adds POS, inventory, rentals, staff, boats, reporting, and AI search recognition. If you are hiring or buying gear to rent, you are running a business — go straight to Manta One.
WSN for BusinessResults
+22
students in one season
“I stopped waiting for the shop to hand me students. The profile does the selling and I just teach.”
Ana CastilloPADI MSDT · Cozumel
3 hrs
of admin removed weekly
“No more chasing deposits over WhatsApp. Booking, waiver, payment, done before they land.”
Tomás RiveraSSI Instructor · Playa del Carmen
$149
paid back in one course
“The annual fee cost less than a single Open Water booking. That maths took about ten seconds.”
Hanna LindqvistPADI Course Director · Gili Trawangan
Getting started
Claim your listing
Name, location, agencies, and the levels you teach. Free, about four minutes.
Verify credentials
Member number, insurance, and current first aid. We check before the badge appears.
Publish your classes
Certification courses with real dates, ratio, price, and what is included.
Get booked and paid
Students book and pay on WSN. Payout lands after the course, minus 12%.
Questions
No. Instructor Pro works whether you are freelance, resort staff, or teaching under a shop. If you do list a shop affiliation, the shop has to confirm it before the verified badge shows — until then it is marked self-reported.
Never. Affiliation is a public relationship, not a permission. Your bookings, students, and payouts stay in your account unless you explicitly grant access.
Certification-category products: Discover Scuba, Open Water, Advanced, Rescue, EFR, Divemaster, specialties, refreshers, and junior programs. Boat trips and gear are sold by shops and operators.
12% on bookings that come through WSN. Bookings you take on your own site with the booking module are commission free — WSN only charges for students WSN sends you.
Students pay at booking. Deposits are held and released to you after the course completes, on a weekly payout schedule. Cancellations follow the policy you set on your profile.
When you are running a business rather than teaching solo — staff, boats, rental fleet, retail, or a second location. Once three or four a-la-carte modules are on your bill, Manta One Core at $199/mo is cheaper and does far more.
Get started
Get listed free in minutes, or start Instructor Pro and be bookable today. Cancel before renewal and your listing simply reverts to free.