Dive Leaders, whether they are Dive Masters, Dive Coordinators, Instructors or Technical Instructors all share one thing in common – a genuine passion for all-things diving. If you live and breathe diving and have an unstoppable drive to share that passion with others, we want to hear from you.
Becoming a diver leader, particularly an Instructor offers you a privileged opportunity to pass on your knowledge, experience and dive skills to the divers of tomorrow. With an Instructor Trainer as your mentor, our Instructor courses are designed to develop and enhance your diving skills, teaching and supervisory skills in a controlled and structured manner.
Each dive leadership level consists of an instructor evaluation where you’ll work alongside an Instructor or Instructor Trainer to develop the tools and know-how to successfully deliver diver training at various levels. For new Technical Instructors, you’ll start at the ‘tech lite’ level teaching the IANTD Recreational Trimix and Advanced Recreational Trimix programs.
If you are already an experienced instructor, contact our training director for options and routes to join our team of professionals.
Dive Guide and Dive Master
This is your entry into a dive leadership position. Dive Guides and Dive Masters work with divers who are already certified. These individuals generally introduce dive sites and lead divers on structured dives.
- Prerequisites: Master Scuba Diver, Science of Diving course, First Aid, CPR & Oxygen provider certified
- Equipment Requirements: Student educational materials, your own total diving system
Dive Control Specialist
Dive Control Specialists function as leaders with certified divers but they can also begin to teach some specialty courses and act assistants to Instructors in diving classes.
- Prerequisites: Dive Master, current First Aid, CPR & Oxygen provider
- Equipment Requirements: Student educational materials, your own total diving system matching the facilities merchandising policy
Technical Dive Master
Working with technical divers requires a higher level of training and education. Becoming a Technical Dive Master allows you to lead technical dives and assist Technical Instructors with training programs.
- Prerequisites: Dive Master, Technical Training as a diver up to the level you are wishing to lead, current First Aid, CPR & Oxygen provider
- Equipment Requirements: Student educational materials, your own total diving system matching the facilities merchandising policy
Technical Dive Leader with Divers
Open Water Instructor
Working with new students is a real treat and sharing your diving skills and knowledge with them is fun and rewarding. You will enjoy watching them progress from new students with little knowledge of diving to fully certified divers. Additionally, you can keep them interested in diving by prneuding them with continuing diving education opportunities. As you gain experience you can increase your instructor rating from an Open Water Instructor to a Specialty Instructor, an Advanced Open Water Instructor, a Dive Control Specialist Instructor, A Master Instructor, an Instructor Trainer and ultimately to an Instructor Certifier.
- Prerequisites: Dive Control Specialist, current First Aid, CPR & Oxygen provider
- Equipment Requirements: Student educational materials, your own total diving system matching the facilities merchandising policy
Technical Instructor
As a Technical Instructor you will take the skills you have learned in teaching and working with recreational open water divers and leading technical dives and apply those to divers seeking technical diving training. There are various levels of instructors within the Technical Instructor ranks including:
- CCR Instructor
- Advanced Recreational Trimix Instructor (both open circuit and CCR)
- Cave Diving Instructor (both open circuit and CCR)
- Wreck Diving Instructor (both open circuit and CCR)
- Normoxic Trimix Instructor (both open circuit and CCR)
- Trimix Instructor (both open circuit and CCR)
- Expedition Trimix Instructor (both open circuit and CCR)
How far you go is up to you.
- Prerequisites: Open Water Instructor, current First Aid, CPR & Oxygen provider
- Equipment Requirements: Student educational materials, your own total diving system matching the facilities merchandising policy
CCR Instruction
Instructor Trainer
Instructor Trainers have the additional responsibility to help Instructor Candidates and other diving Instructors reach their goals through training, coaching and practical experiences.
