Scuba Jobs

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Looking for your dream job? Want to turn your love of scuba diving into your new career?
Here are some possible career tracks:

  • Boat Operator
  • Dive Center Manager
  • Dive Resort Manager
  • Divemaster
  • Scuba Instructor
  • Aquarium Diver
  • Commercial Diver

Looking at PADI’s online job board, there have been 46 jobs posted between 1-November and 9-November, from Scotland to the Maldives, Mexico to Cayman Brac.    Lots of opportunities for Divemasters, Instructors and other qualified dive professionals.

Where to begin? If you’re not already certified, start as an Open Water Diver From there, progress through Advanced, Rescue, Master Scuba Diver and Divemaster Then, you’ll be in an excellent position to supervise divers, assist divers with their scuba equipment selection and purchases, and supervise certified divers.

As a Divemaster, you can expand your scuba career opportunities by earning your Captains license and being able to operate a dive boat. Taking classes in business, sales, hotel and resort management can help you towards managing a Dive Center or Dive Resort.

Ready to share your love of scuba with others? Become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor Now you can teach scuba lessons and certify scuba divers. You can then teach scuba courses including Open Water, Advanced, Rescue and Divemaster. Your students, though, will have their own interests. To meet their needs, you’ll want to be able to teach various specialty diver courses and be a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer One of the key benefits of the PADI courses is that you learn the business aspects of Scuba diving–including how to market and price courses as well as get a return on your investment in your own professional diver education.

Any time you’re working as a professional scuba diver, you should be prepared to respond to emergencies. The DAN Diving First Aid courses are ideal to prepare you to respond to such emergencies.

Other careers can include working at an Aquarium and Commercial Diving. Aquarium divers help maintain exhibits and take care of the aquatic creatures in their care. Commercial Diving can include underwater welding, construction, testing, inspection and many other exciting opportunities beyond the recreational realm.

If you’re ready to change your career or extend your existing professional scuba career, please Contact me I’d be happy to help you along your way.

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Web site Update

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Ok, it’s way overdue.  Time to revamp the website and WordPress seemed the answer.

Duck & Cover–there’s going to be debris flying whilst I make the transition.

Use the “Contact Me” link at the top to send me any feedback.

Happy Diving

–jon

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Divemaster

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Imagine leading a life others only dream about. Take your lifetime of adventure to the next level as a Divemaster

Divemaster

As a PADI Divemaster you can:

  • Lead certified divers
  • Assist with scuba training courses
  • Independently train and certify Skin Divers
  • Conduct Discover Local Diving experience programs
  • Conduct Discover Scuba Diving (after completing internship requirements)
  • And much, much more.

During the Divemaster course you’ll develop your diving theory knowledge. Learn about Physics, Physiology, Equipment and Decompression Theory and how they apply to leading dives. You’ll also intern with several classes, exposing you to several levels of training.
To enroll in the Divemaster course:

  • You must have 40 logged dives
  • You must have Advanced and Rescue-level training
  • Be at least 18 years of age
  • Have proof of recent CPR & First Aid training

 

What materials do you need for the Divemaster course?

  • PADI Divemaster Manual
  • PADI Instructor Manual
  • Recreational Dive Planner(RDP): Table and eRDPML version
  • Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
  • Divemaster slates
  • Log Book

All of those are included in the Divemaster Crewpak.

 

What will you do during the Divemaster course?

  • Complete knowledge development segments including Knowledge Reviews in the PADI Divemaster Manual or through the Divemaster Online, and pass the Divemaster Final Exam.
  • Create an Emergency Assistance Plan for a designated dive site.
  • Complete waterskills exercises.
    • 800yd/m mask/snorkel fin swim
    • 400yd/m swim
    • 100yd/m inert diver tow
    • 15 minute tread (last 2 minutes with hands out of the water)
  • Complete a diver rescue assessment.
  • Complete the dive skills workshop and assessment.
    • Perfect your diving skills to demonstration quality to prepared you to divemaster for a class or to conduct a scuba review.
  • Complete practical application skills.
    • Dive Site setup and management
    • Mapping project
    • Dive briefing
    • Search & Recovery Scenario (the Search and Recovery Specialty Certification can substitute)
    • Deep Dive Scenario (the Deep Specialty certification can substitute)
  • Complete divemaster-conducted programs workshops.
    • Conduct Scuba Review in confined water
    • Teach Skin Diver course
    • Conduct Discover Scuba in confined water
    • Lead a Discover Scuba Open Water dive
    • Lead a Discover Local Diving Open Water Dive
  • Complete practical assessments.
    • Divemaster with Open Water Diver Students in Confined Water
    • Divemaster with Open Water Diver Students in Open Water
    • Work with continuing education Diver Students in Open Water
    • Lead certified divers in Open Water
  • Meet the professionalism criteria.
    • Demonstrate your professionalism through active participation, mentoring, positive attitude and protecting the environment.

Questions about the Divemaster program?  Contact me!

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Rescue Diver

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Rescue Diver

Rescue Divers learn to look beyond themselves and consider the safety and well being of other divers. Although this course is serious, it is an enjoyable way to build your confidence.

Scuba Diving Emergencies always have to start somewhere.   A leaky o-ring, a partially filled cylinder, over weighting.   As with any emergency, prevention and preparation are the places to start.   Imagine this: you and your buddy are getting ready to dive at the Crater  in Midway, Utah.   The water is about 93F and it’s a fairly small, contained dive site.  Since it’s so warm, you don’t need a wetsuit, which also means you only need minimal weight.   You get your gear on and enter the water.  Your buddy does the same, except he put on his normal ocean-diving weight belt with 25 pounds of lead.  He sinks like a rock.   WHOA!   A simple pre-dive safety check could have prevented this potential scuba diving emergency.   That pre-dive safety check is something you learn in your open water diver course.

Divers doing a pre-dive safety check. Rescue Divers should make sure other divers do a pre-dive check to prevent problems.

Predive safety checks can prevent diving emergencies.

If we prevent as much as we can, then we next focus on how to respond.   In the Rescue Diver course, we spend a good amount of time in the water practicing how to respond to a scuba emergency.   Let’s take a look at some of the things you’ll learn and do.

What will you learn & do?

  1. Self-rescue and diver stress
  2. AED and emergency oxygen delivery systems
  3. dive first aid
  4. swimming and non-swimming rescue techniques
  5. emergency management and equipment
  6. assembling an emergency plan
  7. panicked diver response
  8. underwater problems
  9. missing diver procedures
  10. surfacing the unconscious diver
  11. in-water rescue breathing protocols
  12. egress (exits)
  13. first aid procedures for pressure related accidents
  14. Participate in two dive accident scenarios

 

Rescue divers practicing how to respond to a scuba emergency: assisting an unresponsive, non-breathing diver at the surface.

Rescue Diver practice: responding to a scuba emergency on the surface.

As a certified Diver Medic and a DAN Instructor Trainer, I’m a big proponent of additional diving first aid training.   Why?   Simple, diving emergencies follow where the diving is.   One of the cool things about scuba is we get to explore our world, which often means we dive in remote locations.  Even diving in the States, EMS can often be a long distance away.

I encourage all divers, especially Rescue Divers, to continue their education with more training.  I typically include the DAN Oxygen Provider and PADI Oxygen Provider programs with my Rescue Diver course.    Beyond that, the DAN Hazardous Marine Life Injuries course and Neurological Assessment programs give you an expanded tool set as a Rescue Diver to handle diving emergencies.

 

Advanced Open Water & Adventure Diver

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PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
PADI Adventure Diver

Prerequisites:

 

  • PADI Open Water Diver certification (or qualifying certification from another organization)
  • Minimum age: 15 (12 for PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver; 10 for PADI Junior Adventure Diver)

You don’t have to be an advanced diver to take the PADI Adventure Diver or PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course. Rather, you take the courses to advance your skills!

What’s involved?

  • The PADI Adventure Diver certification includes three Adventure Dives.
  • The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification includes the Deep Adventure Dive, the Underwater Navigator Adventure Dive and three additional adventure dives.

What does it cost?
You can sign up for an entire course or just do it dive-by-dive.

Tuition Adventure Diver
(3 dives)		 Advanced
(5 dives)		 Per Dive
Team (3-4 divers): $150/diver $250/diver $75/diver/dive
Executive (2 divers): $250/diver $350/diver $95/diver/dive
Personal rate(1 diver) $350/diver $450/diver $135/diver/dive
Materials Adventures in Diving CrewPak (NavFinder, Manual & DVD) $66
Rates do not include equipment rental.

Contact me to signup today!

Adventure dives:

 

  • Adventure Dives available to divers 10 years old and older:
    • Altitude Diver
    • AWARE Fish Identification
    • Underwater Naturalist
    • Boat Diver
    • Dry Suit Diver
    • Underwater Navigator
    • Peak Performance Buoyancy
    • Underwater Photography
    • Underwater Videography
  • Additional Adventure Dives available to divers 12 years old and older:
    • Multilevel Diver
    • Deep Diver
    • Night Diver
    • Diver Propulsion Vehicle
    • Search and Recovery Diver
    • Drift Diver
    • Wreck Diver.