Are you interested in year round local warm water diving, maintaining your dive skills between trips, honing your fish ID skills, or sharing your passion for the ocean with others? Becoming a Volunteer Diver at the National Aquarium in Baltimore may be for you! Our Volunteer Divers get to do all of those things and more.
The first step in our recruitment process is for potential volunteer divers to fill out an application at our website www.aqua.org. The next step is to take our written test. The tests for our 2019 recruitment are scheduled for October 14 (afternoon) and October 17 (evening) here at the aquarium. The test includes sections on Rescue/First Aid, Dive Physics, Dive Physiology, Dive Equipment, and Animal Behavior/Ecology. Applicants who are successful at the written test will be invited to the aquarium in November for an orientation and to our in-water test in January.
Upon successful completion of written and in-water recruitment testing processes, a volunteer diver will serve on one of 14 volunteer dive teams. Placement depends upon availability of team openings. We commonly have more weekday slots available. Weekend slots are rare. All of our dive teams take care of the animals in the Atlantic Coral Reef, maintain the exhibit and interact with our visitors. Select dive team members also interact with our visitors during communication mask dives in the Blacktip Reef.
All volunteer dive applicants must be 18 years of age or older and satisfy the following prerequisites:
Volunteer divers will be trained in safely performing the tasks necessary for their program and required to attend general volunteer orientation and training. Divers must commit to work one eight-hour shift (8:30 am to 4:30 pm) every other week on one of 14 teams. Benefits (in addition to awesome diving) include free parking while volunteering, membership, discounts in our cafes and gift shops, volunteer and member social events, and smiles and thanks from guests from all over the world!
If you have any questions about our Volunteer Dive Program, please feel free to contact me here on ScubaBoard or email me directly at jcooper(at)aqua.org.
Thanks,
Jackie Cooper
Sr ADSO
The first step in our recruitment process is for potential volunteer divers to fill out an application at our website www.aqua.org. The next step is to take our written test. The tests for our 2019 recruitment are scheduled for October 14 (afternoon) and October 17 (evening) here at the aquarium. The test includes sections on Rescue/First Aid, Dive Physics, Dive Physiology, Dive Equipment, and Animal Behavior/Ecology. Applicants who are successful at the written test will be invited to the aquarium in November for an orientation and to our in-water test in January.
Upon successful completion of written and in-water recruitment testing processes, a volunteer diver will serve on one of 14 volunteer dive teams. Placement depends upon availability of team openings. We commonly have more weekday slots available. Weekend slots are rare. All of our dive teams take care of the animals in the Atlantic Coral Reef, maintain the exhibit and interact with our visitors. Select dive team members also interact with our visitors during communication mask dives in the Blacktip Reef.
All volunteer dive applicants must be 18 years of age or older and satisfy the following prerequisites:
- Possess a scuba certification of Advanced Open Water or higher
- Proof of at least 30 logged dives
Volunteer divers will be trained in safely performing the tasks necessary for their program and required to attend general volunteer orientation and training. Divers must commit to work one eight-hour shift (8:30 am to 4:30 pm) every other week on one of 14 teams. Benefits (in addition to awesome diving) include free parking while volunteering, membership, discounts in our cafes and gift shops, volunteer and member social events, and smiles and thanks from guests from all over the world!
If you have any questions about our Volunteer Dive Program, please feel free to contact me here on ScubaBoard or email me directly at jcooper(at)aqua.org.
Thanks,
Jackie Cooper
Sr ADSO
