Turning pro - Dive Master

After you qualify as a Rescue diver you are eligible to turn pro. The first rung on the pro ladder is Dive Master. It's takes ten day's of intensive learning in the classroom, pool and sea. There is a great deal of emphasis on dive planning and supervision of both divers and students. As this is the first step towards becoming an instructor you are also introduced to some of the demands of that job.

But there is also a different option to complete this course. Instead of the ten day normal PADI training method you can sign up for a working internship learning every aspect of the job on the boat and in the dive centre. This route is a real cash saver for DM trainees who have only logged the 20 dives required to start this course.  To gain certification you must have 60 dives logged and these are included in the cost of the course. Not only do they gain real "hands on" working experience but also get 40 dives free.

Dive Master trainees can also log the total of 100 dives required to take the next step which is a PADI IDC (Instructor Development Course.) If your ambition is to live and work in Thailand then knowing the local dive sites makes your prospects better.

Drop us an email and we will help you plan a schedule that fits in with other demands on your time.
 

PADI Instructor internships: This fast-track, intensive course can take you from Open Water diver through to PADI professional instructor in just six months. We can also continue your instructor training to qualify you to teach specialty courses or become a PADI IDC Staff Instructor so that you can participate in training instructor candidates and have greater employment prospects.

Several dive centres in Pattaya now offer instructor internships jumping on the system that was launched in 1999 by Peter Chandler before he and his brother Neil started their own dive shop, Real Divers.

But Real Divers, a sister company of Diving Thailand, has one big difference. It is the only PADI dive centre in Pattaya that doesn't demand full payment of training costs, educational materials and hotel accommodation upfront and usually with no refunds if you have to drop out before completing the internship.

Real Divers believe that asking a student to gamble on being able to complete such a demanding course before he or she is even certain that they will enjoy scuba diving is not a reasonable way to conduct business.

So Real Divers offers the internship on a "pay as you go" course-by-course basis.  The schedule starts with Open Water and if you were to suddenly realise that becoming a scuba instructor wasn't quite what you thought it would be then you could drop out without losing any more than the cost of the courses you have already completed.