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Aqua Safari as well as others offer DM and AI courses from $850. Takes 50 hours or more, one week min. 60 logged dives required.....GPdiver:I am already Rescue Diver
What is the going rate$$ and how long to complete on the Island?
GPdiver:I am already Rescue Diver
What is the going rate$$ and how long to complete on the Island?
Around here the cost is 495 dollars(does not include admission fees to dive sites) but it takes however long it takes for you to be good and profiecient enough to pass above standards. WE dive every weekend. You have to supervise at least 40 classes. We sometimes do 3 classes a day so thats 12 a weekend. I am in the DM class. He teaches us as though we will become instructors and expects us to pass like we were going for our instructors exams. You get what you work for. A short program is not what being a DM is about. Being through, consistent, obsservant, and learning from your mistakes and that takes time. Be the best that you can be not the minimum that is required for you to be. Also to work as a DM you will need some strong references so just keep that in mind too. You will be professionally responsible for everyone's lives on your boat or resort.scubatexastony:Aqua Safari as well as others offer DM and AI courses from $850. Takes 50 hours or more, one week min. 60 logged dives required.....
tony
beachdivequeenbelam:Around here the cost is 495 dollars(does not include admission fees to dive sites) but it takes however long it takes for you to be good and profiecient enough to pass above standards. WE dive every weekend. You have to supervise at least 40 classes. We sometimes do 3 classes a day so thats 12 a weekend. I am in the DM class. He teaches us as though we will become instructors and expects us to pass like we were going for our instructors exams. You get what you work for. A short program is not what being a DM is about. Being through, consistent, obsservant, and learning from your mistakes and that takes time. Be the best that you can be not the minimum that is required for you to be. Also to work as a DM you will need some strong references so just keep that in mind too. You will be professionally responsible for everyone's lives on your boat or resort.
Good Luck
BridgetBridget
beachdivequeenbelam:Around here the cost is 495 dollars(does not include admission fees to dive sites) but it takes however long it takes for you to be good and profiecient enough to pass above standards. WE dive every weekend. You have to supervise at least 40 classes. We sometimes do 3 classes a day so thats 12 a weekend. I am in the DM class. He teaches us as though we will become instructors and expects us to pass like we were going for our instructors exams. You get what you work for. A short program is not what being a DM is about. Being through, consistent, obsservant, and learning from your mistakes and that takes time. Be the best that you can be not the minimum that is required for you to be. Also to work as a DM you will need some strong references so just keep that in mind too. You will be professionally responsible for everyone's lives on your boat or resort.
Good Luck
Bridget
Bridget
cancun mark:I think there is a little bit of conflicting information here.
The PADI DM course curriculum can easily be completed in ten days.
Becoming a Divemaster and earning the experience, jugement and learning the job, is a completely different thing.
If you want the card for bragging rights, take a quick course pass the exams, do the swims, draw the map and you have the hat.
You want to work as a DM, become an instructor or develop a dive career, cristi's estimate of at least a month is more like it. I personally ave a stack of DM/Instructor candidates that come here for months at a time and take a go pro program that teaches both the curriculum, AND the job.