Divemaster course
Considering taking your diving to the professional level? Look no further!
Here at Alton's you will find professional training both challenging and rewarding and can open the door to a career break or career change. We recognize that your divemaster training is more than simply another certification. To be a successful divemaster in today’s competitive dive industry you will need to be knowledgeable, flexible, experienced, and skillful. At Alton’s we aim to deliver all of this and more, and those of you who have been diving with us before will know all about our famous welcoming and friendly atmosphere.
At Alton’s Dive Center we believe that the combination of training with experienced instructors, in a lively and busy dive shop with a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, together with Utila’s world class diving, is unbeatable.
The divemaster certification is the first step on the way to become a dive professional. As a certified and active dive master you are able to work in a number of areas including leading scuba divers on dives, conduct scuba review or refresher programs for certified divers, assist instructors in all training courses up to and including dive master itself. Working on live aboards, dive resorts, and at dive centers around the world becomes a realistic possibility. We look to our own divemaster program for divemasters who wish to work with us on completion of their course. Our philosophy is that we require a professional level of service for our fun divers and we believe that it is only fair to pay those divemasters for that work. As a consequence we have one of the best, if not the best, fun diver service on the island. We are confident that nothing surpasses our staff that are homegrown! But please be aware that completing the Divemaster course with us is not a guarantee of employment!
We assign you a mentor for your Divemaster program but ultimately you will have access to our entire team of instructors. If you are thinking about taking your instructor course in future then working with a team of instructors is one of the best ways to gain experience and prepare for that. Beyond all this you will find that adherence to standards at Alton’s is second to none.
At Alton's we like to keep our professional dive training groups to a small manageable program where we can deliver personalized quality training with small training groups and 1 on 1 counseling and coaching sessions where required. You will find that typically our divemaster program has about 4-8 divemaster trainees at various stages within the program. Many of our divemasters have moved on to work around the world including locations in Nicaragua, Mexico, Brazil, Mozambique, Egypt, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines to name only a few.
Your mentor will never have more than one or two other DMTs training with them at once. Its great to be able to do some projects as a team but it's also really important to us that you get a really personalized and comprehensive experience. That means a lot of what you do will be one on one with your mentor.
We offer 2 program options for Divemaster Trainees
2 - 4 weeks: $1200
- Divemaster training
- PADI Crew pack (retail value $420)
- 7 nights free/discounted accommodation
- Cost price specialties
- Full equipment rental
- Free fun diving for up to 4 weeks
- Free rental of our kayak gear to explore the local reefs and lagoons independently.
4 - 12 weeks: $1500
- Divemaster training
- PADI Crew pack (retail value $420)
- 7 nights free/discounted accommodation
- Cost price specialties
- Full equipment rental
- Free fun diving for up to 12 weeks
- Free rental of our kayak gear to explore the local reefs and lagoons independently.
