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I am planning on doing my Divemaster in the Domican Republic in the next couple months. Does anyone have experience doing Divemaster abroad ? Just wondering what to expect ?
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If you have a good teacher, you'll learn lots, dive lots and you should become good. If you aren't in a good teaching place, well... I hope you are.
I did it in Mexico - you can take just the class or intern. Just the class gets you a card but you'll be far from a good dive master imo. You gotta start somewhere though right? I'm going back for the instructor class but will be living there permanently so interning makes big sense.
You only get out what you put in.
People to advertise courses that can be completed in 2 weeks. Basically they're an attendance course and your learn little.
I believe 40 days is about right depending on the candidate. Often the first 7 days are used bringing them up to scratch in their diving, I want them also to be knowledgeable about dive equipment and theory - You only pass when you've met our standards, and my personal standard is would I let you guide my 15yr old son who is newly qualified
If they want to go forward to instructor then there is additional pool time where they get to learn positioning and student control. I expect the 24 skills to be instructor standard for all DM's (because you could be assisting teaching and I want your skills up to scratch.
It's also important to spend time in the centre just getting a feel for how it works. Sure you get to hump and dump, clean and polish - we all do all teh way up to course director.
So pick your centre carefully, interview them and question them by email and get a feeling about them to see if they're a good fit with your expectations. You also want to have fun and have some great diving and be with a good group so busy centres are better
People to advertise courses that can be completed in 2 weeks. Basically they're an attendance course and your learn little.
I believe 40 days is about right depending on the candidate. Often the first 7 days are used bringing them up to scratch in their diving, I want them also to be knowledgeable about dive equipment and theory - You only pass when you've met our standards, and my personal standard is would I let you guide my 15yr old son who is newly qualified
If they want to go forward to instructor then there is additional pool time where they get to learn positioning and student control. I expect the 24 skills to be instructor standard for all DM's (because you could be assisting teaching and I want your skills up to scratch.
It's also important to spend time in the centre just getting a feel for how it works. Sure you get to hump and dump, clean and polish - we all do all teh way up to course director.
So pick your centre carefully, interview them and question them by email and get a feeling about them to see if they're a good fit with your expectations. You also want to have fun and have some great diving and be with a good group so busy centres are better
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Thanks for the replies. The course only requires two weeks but I signed on for four weeks to get more experience and to dive for free some more. I should not need to start from scratch as I am full cave and advanced Nitrox and deco. Hoping to work in a little cave diving while I'm in the DR.
I seen the number of dives you had and figured you have that part squared away. You'll learn a lot about teaching others, assisting instructors, teaching DSD in the pool kinda thing.
Depending on where or how you dive, there seems to be two types of DM, either just a baby sitter or a tour guide/baby sitter. Both take a lot of skills but for me the tour guide is way more complex with where I want to dive. Where to drop in, how's the current, what you'll see, where to find it type of thing - I have to read up way more on the animals and such.
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