How can I find a diving job following completing my dive internship?

The Ocean Tribe has a wide range of contacts to help you find a diving job once you graduate from the PADI Divemaster internship or PADI instructor internship as a scuba diving professional. Throughout network of staff diving contacts and former interns we have dive connections in a number of countries around the world and have sent interns in the past to work in such places as Tanzania, Thailand, Cyprus. Malaysia, Indonesia, Egypt, Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Cambodia, USA, Mexico, Galápagos Islands, UK, Spain, Greece, Jordan, Bahrain,the UAE, Sri Lanka and other exciting places.

Following graduation from your dive internship program we offer a number of workshops to interns to help them find a job in scuba diving. These include a CV (resume) writing workshop, a job searching and email contact workshop, a website building and social media interaction workshop to help you market yourself as a PADI pro and we can also train you in further education courses such as PADI specialty instructor training courses and Disabled Divers International instructor courses to further what qualifications you can offer a dive business.

We appreciate that enrolling on a dive internship is a big investment so obviously you would like to see a return on your investment, so we really put effort into making sure that you are prepared to find a dive job and to to give you as many contacts and connections as possible to do so.

For those of you who are on a GAP year then here is a chance to earn back the money that you have spent on the internship and see more of the world as you work your way in scuba diving, while for those of you making a career change then all skills you can ring to the table such as marketing, management, and languages can assist you in finding jobs in the scuba diving industry and living the dream.

Just to give you an idea of the types of diving job that are available out there. You can work as a diving instructor or Divemaster at a shore dive center or on a liveaboard dive vessel where you stay on the boat and travel to further dive sites. You can work with scuba equipment manufacturers or as a freelance diving instructor in certain areas giving you a carte Blanche to travel. Dive centres also need administration staff and watersports directors and boat captains as well as equipment technicians. We can help you to train in many of these area and make yourself as employable to a dive business as possible.