The typical dive resort usually consists of accommodation (quality can vary) for the divers (customers), an office / admin area, a classroom, a gear room and a harbour area where the dive boat is moored. Higher grade resorts can include: Restaurant, lockers for personal effects, a pool for enclosed water training, a bar for partying after the dives have finished, and a private mooring for liveaboards / dive boats.
It can be a very glamorous lifestyle: Sunny tropical climate, often there's a party atmosphere, you're getting paid to travel on boats and dive pretty coral reefs. Working and living-it-up on a tropical island is not something most people have done.
Working for a dive resort is similar in many ways to working for a cruise liner. You have paying customers who need attention and your job can often mean long hours to do this. The paying customers are usually either: Snorkellers, students or fun divers. These same students may go on to do fun diving once they attain dive status.
Snorkellers: tend to be easiest of them all when it comes to administering and equipping, indeed many often bring their own gear with them. Unless the dive site is inherently risky they usually require only casual / minimal supervision once they hit the water.
Student Divers: This group of diver also tends to be the most varied to teach diving to due to differing experience, age, health along with their mindset and attitude. In fact many of this type may not of even undertaken scuba diving before. The skill of a diving instructor is paramount in teaching the ways of diving. But knowledge of diving isn't the only one: patience, understanding and empathy are all things a good dive instructor should have to impart onto the student.
Fun Divers: Most tend to bring minimal equipment (mask, snorkel and fins), some may bring a wetsuit, few bring a full dive set (less weights). This group of diver tends to be the most varied to lead on a dive due to differing experience, skill, age, health along with their mindset and attitude. Almost all will need to be escorted / guided around the dive site they choose; be it a coral reef formation or a shipwreck etc. The escorting diver needs to be fully aware and ready to deal with and overcome difficulties that the divers may encounter. It cannot be overstated how important the responsibility factor on the dive guides shoulders is.
So who normally works in a dive resort? Well, usually there's a dive manager, several Instructors, Divemasters / Dive guides, boat captain (s), dive boat crew.
Imagine then that you've been picked from a crowd of hopeful wannabe divemasters and Instructors into the dive resort job of your dreams. The dive center / resort doors are in front of you, before you walk here's what lies in store for you.
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