Funded Divemaster Internship in the Houston Area

[divezonescuba]

I don't know if job announcements are offered on this page or not. So please delete this if it is not appropriate.

I would like to offer between 2 and 4 sponsored PADI or SDI divemaster internship opportunities this summer. If you are interested in becoming a divemaster here is how this will work.

You do not pay for any divemaster tuition or fills.

You are responsible for your own elearning costs. While you are a divemaster student candidate, you must also pay for your own facility entrance fees. On completion of the course, you pay for your own divemaster certification fee.

You must be generally available on the weekends, until you complete the course requirements. During each internship session, you will also specifically work on your divemaster requirements. The more you make yourself available for training, the faster you finish the course.

You must be physically fit to pass the divemaster water skills and able to pass the divemaster required medical exam. Divemaster candidates must have credit for rescue. You must also have a current CPR/first aid certification and 40 logged dives.

If you continue to help periodically as a certified divemaster after graduation, you are entitled to 25% discounts on any gear. You also receive up to 100% free recreational course tuition, and 50% free technical diving course tuition, depending on how active you are as a divemaster. For all of those courses, you are responsible for your learning materials.

If you are interested in applying for this internship, please send me a PM.

 

[Jonn]

Thread 'Warning for those considering long-term training at Tenerife Diving Academy (Divemaster Course)'
https://scubaboard.com/community/th...rife-diving-academy-divemaster-course.656286/
This is someone coming out the other side of a similar deal unhappy. Sounds like they might have had other issues, hard to tell from here, but still unhappy. Care to expand a bit on “generally available” and “help periodically”? Are interns expected to buy and push the gear you sell, or work at the shop without pay? Not accusing you of anything, working for free is literally what interns are there to do and it can be a good deal all-round. Kinda vague about what you’re getting out of this deal…
At least I don’t get to trot out “Welcome to Scubaboard” with you!

 

[divezonescuba]

Sorry, I thought I had addressed most of what your concerns are.

Each session the divemaster candidate helps out with what is happening that day. It is mostly in water activities that we are interested in. So if it is an open course, they do things that a divemaster would do like help get students suited up. If it is an advanced course, they might be a dive buddy. Or in rescue they might play a victim. That is all associated with their divemaster training requirements. After the class, the candidate then can do things like a swim test work on their map, or practice an equipment exchange or whatever else they need to do.

Sometimes the divemasters help with other things. When we recently moved the shop, almost all the current divemasters helped move for a couple of hours. None of them have actually worked in the shop. We have other people for that.

One of our regular divemasters recently started working his regular job on Saturdays and can no longer help us then. So, what I mean by generally available is that a candidate cannot have a regular job that would interfere with assisting with the training or their making course progress on our prime training day as Saturday and Sundays.

Help after graduating, periodically means a two or three times a month during the summer if they want the gear and course discounts.

No, the candidates are not expected to buy anything from us. However their gear must be in good condition and present a professional appearance. A few years ago, we had a divemaster candidate who attempted to use xl sized gear on his medium sized body. That was inappropriate.

It is a good deal for someone who might not otherwise be able to do divemaster.

I am aware of the fact that some out of the US diveshops have abused divemaster candidates in the past and perhaps even some in the US.

 

[divezonescuba]

It turns out that some of the interested applicants did not have rescue, but were promising candidates otherwise. I had not anticipated that possibility.

So, we are allowing a couple of them to take rescue in anticipation of enrolling in the divemaster internship program. So, that is another possibility for someone who is otherwise interested and qualified, but not yet rescue certified.

We are also deeply discounting the divemaster elearning crewpak to minimize the selected candidates out of pocket costs.