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Buccaneer diving internship programs

Our very popular and successful internship programs are run on the principle that the best way to learn anything is to be practically involved with it. That's why our interns are treated as one of the staff of Buccaneer diving during the program as they learn to work in the dive industry at one of East Africa's busiest dive centres. Leading up to the PADI Divemaster course, you will dive daily with our Instructors and dive guides and once the Divemaster portion has been successfully completed and you have passed our own rigorous requirements you will be able to take on a role as Divemaster for the period leading up to our PADI IDC program. Our interns have generally found that the IDC / IE at the end of the course is merely a step on the way to becoming a PADI Pro



Your role
As a Buccaneer Diving Intern, you will be treated as an employee, and as such will be subject to the basic rules that our employees adhere to, such as time keeping and dress codes. As the diving is included in the cost of the internship (apart from Marine Park fees), the more you work the more you get out of it. We have had interns completing over 100 dives during the time they have spent with us.

Our role
Our basic aim for the internship is to produce a PADI Instructor who is experienced and capable enough to become a valuable asset to any diving industry job he/she chooses. As such, we will introduce every aspect of the dive industry to the course, including dive leading, customer handling, equipment maintenance and sales, excursion planning and daily dive school operations.
We realise that for many people working in the dive industry is a life long ambition and we endeavour to make the experience fun and rewarding.

The structure
As we can take interns from Openwater through to Divemaster, we do not have a rigid time requirement to the program, though we find 3 months is an ideal period. During the course, as well as the standard PADI courses, we will introduce the following topics:

Dive leading Assisting the Instructor Dive planning Customer handling Equipment maintenance