Revolutionising The Dive Industry <\/strong><\/h2>\nFast forward to today, Jacki is revolutionising the dive industry in Singapore, as he empowers young people to start their own dive businesses and introduces new technological developments to improve the operation and logistical capabilities of dive companies.\n\n\u201cThere are plenty of courses that teach people how to dive. However, education with regards to running a dive operation or dealing with tourism and hospitality in the dive context is duly lacking. Because the skills needed in this industry are so unique, we created a programme four years ago to address these needs,\u201d said Jacki.\n\n\u201cThis 8-month programme takes you from a non-diver all the way to an instructor with skills from multiple areas needed to be successful in this industry, and allows people who are passionate about diving to carve a career from it. ADA then provides an influx of ready professionals with relevant skills into the industry, hereby empowering it.\u201d\n\n \n\nThroughout his time in the diving industry, Jacki also noted that the existing processes were incredibly manual. Not many people were digitalising their business and investing in technology-driven solutions.\n\nHe wanted to bridge this digital gap and saw the potential for a software-driven system to help scale businesses.\n\nAs such, ADA went on to introduce their own dive management software, which is apparently the first of its kind in the world. It makes use of cloud-based technology to improve the operation and customer experience for dive centres.\n\nThe integrated platform allows business owners to manage customers, equipment and payment; and also gives students access to online training at the same time.\n\nSo far, transactions done through their online platform has grown by over 80% in the past 8 months.\n\nEncouraged by such positive response, Jacki expressed his hopes to make the software completely open source in the future, so as to improve efficiency for the whole industry.\n\nHe also sees the potential of bringing in more new technology into the dive industry.\n\nHe intends to make use of the Internet of Things to track the usage of tanks, and to work on improving the sustainability of the industry by tracking and monitoring the number of dives an area can sustainably hold, which helps to reduce the impact diving has on marine life and parks.\n\n \nIt\u2019s Never About The Profit<\/h2>\nSince inception, Jacki has been bootstrapping the startup, which has since grown into a team of 80 people and raking in a huge profit turnover of $4.5 million.\n\nBut Jacki insisted that it\u2019s never about the money.\n\nHe simply has a strong passion for the diving community and wants to give back and improve an industry that means so much to him.\n\nADA has also gone regional in the last year and a half. It has clinched partners from all over the Southeast Asia region, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Papua New Guinea and the Maldives, offering a global approach to professional dive education and training for recreational and technical diving.\n\nMoving forward, Jacki said that ADA is looking to explore deeper into dive resort business opportunities.\n\nWhen asked to impart some final words of advice for fellow young entrepreneurs, he said that \u201ctenacity will always outweigh luck and risk is just an illusion that you have something to lose.\u201d\n\nTrue enough. Despite being a school dropout, Jacki has proved that hard work and effort never betrays \u2013 it only pays.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vulcan Post published date: 24 August 2017 written by: Zafirah Salim \u201cI was always a child who was a bit different. I was neither conventional, nor rule-abiding.\u201d \u201cI grew up in a dysfunctional family where illegal activities were by no means foreign to my family members,\u201d confessed Jacki Ng. At the tender age of 13, […]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ada.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}