job in scuba diving

A:Neatest job? Definitely as a safety diver with NASA at their Astronaut training facility, pushing the trainees around their fake MMU's inside the pool's space shuttle mock up. Not bad pay either at 25 bucks an hour. A firm called Oceaneering had the contract for that and they always seemed to be hiring for it in the last few years in the industry pubs I get. Best paying job per hour? Whatever the market will bear in the location you're in doing whatever in scuba with your certifications and training. If you're the only diver in town, your price is what you want to charge and the client is willing to pay. A good example is a golf ball diver. Yup. If you get the contract to clean out water hazards ( there is a course for this) there are some divers out there making almost 100 grand per year working normal hours. It's piecework (you get a cut of each ball) but some hazards can be gold mines.The flip side is...you may come face to face with some teeth if you're doing this in Florida or other Gator area. :) On the recreational side, Dive Masters can make better cash than Instructors in the right environment. You'll be paid less per hour but your tips ( if you're people friendly) will beat anything an Instructor sees per week. Edit: Tom B has a point. Salvaged or reclaimed timber is actually also a high paying scuba job in areas that relied on waterways to move logs. I'd forgotten that there actually are a few firms and individuals that are doing this. It's high paying if you are the company owner and have a market ( not hard to get customers these days in the building boom). The divers themselves earn what the market will bear. That's what it comes down to in just about any job. If you want to live and work in Massachusetts for example, after graduating from MIT, with whatever degree, well, the job market is saturated to some extent. Top dog wins. Go further afield and that degree becomes more valuable. Best bucks will always go to the best qualified ( both in certs and experience) in the market that will bear the brunt. A diver qualified to go tech ice, will always beat the Carib scuba. He'll also usually beat them if he went Carib. I do have to disagree with Tom as to underwater construction and Scuba. Not so unless it's a quick and dirty job like for example the pool problems I deal with for a pal of mine that owns a pool biz or the odd trout pond thing. Usually surface supplied or saturation divers rules here, not scuba. I own a inland marine dive biz and...the cost per man hour plus material costs make scuba a VERY unattractive option for construction purposes unless it's a single dive within NDL, as a rule. That can change if you have no choice, such as not getting a dive barge in to the site ect. and you MAY have to go scuba, but it's a cost that most employers consider. I do. My dive tenders earn $20 Canuck bucks/hr. They're not allowed to dive SS yet. They are, however allowed to Scuba most jobs within their skill sets. They are certified surface supplied divers. They spent 8 grand getting there. 1st year, they're tenders. After that...it's up to them as to how valuable they are to me. I pay what the market will bear. Get the drift? :) That's how the industry works even in recreational circles. Got a travel and tourism certificate and as a bonus speak more than one language? You'll make more than the unilingual DM that has no hospitality industry creds in an area has the demand for that. Why pay extra for someone over qualified for the job and vice versa. Bottom line...you make what you can bring to the table and where that tables is and it's needs.

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A:It's as hard or as easy as you decide to make it. Not everyone was a good student in school, growing up. Job wise afterwards, you need more than just a PADI Inst cert. Having a second language is good and so does some sort of resort management course. An up to date CV with picture is usually a requirement. Many employers now will screen for drugs and you'll need to have a clean criminal background becuase many countries will require a clean slate for visas and temporary work permits. You may even be required to put up a bond before entering and working in the country of your choice. Salaries vary with the area of the world you choose. So does the cost of living in that area so what your take home pay is, can differ a lot , country to country and even within areas of a country, so there's no way anyone can list them all. I suggest you do a little digging for the area you decide on. What can also come into play here, is that you're getting certed in a warm water area. If you decided to come here ( Canada) for work, you ain't gonna get much. That warm water cert without varied experience, doesn't carry the weight of a cold water one. You'll get a few chuckles tossed your way.

A:There are a number of training facilities that offer the course in exotic locales and then promise you job placement. Beware, a lot of them are a scam. Sure, you get your training, they even toss in the gear ( not stuff you'd want), but your chances of getting a gig are EXACTLY the same as someone who did their training through a local dive shop. Doing it locally will save you money as well. The only appreciable difference between the scams and the honest operations is the good ones will have a hospitality/management course as part of the curriculum. Currently, dive operations have a high demand in the management side, not divers. Divers are a dime a dozen and everyone wants to live the lifestyle so there's a glut of them. Instead of resort DM, why not look into scientific study programs, many are looking for divers. You may start as a volunteer, but they usually open up to a decent paying job and you won't be baby sitting, but doing working dives. An alternative is the booming eco and adventure tour market. New hot spots are opening up every day. Here's a link to some of these types of jobs. Check out the entire site, sometimes the good stuff is hidden in a corner. http://www.jobsabroad.com/listingsp3.cfm/listing/31217 Sometimes some of the best and easiest to get jobs are ones that divers never even think of. Aquariums are usually always looking for staff divers and if you can get a security clearance in the USA, Oceaneering sub contracts out the divers that NASA uses for Astronaut training at their Dive tank with the Shuttle mock up. I know for a fact they are always hiring there and only require an Advanced Cert. Thing is, look for the hidden jobs, not the resort "himbo" ones or be stupid like me and work up a sweat when you dive.

A:You need to go to a dive shop to get your training and certifications. Most resorts would require that you be an instructor.