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  • Professional Diving
    Learn to become a scuba diving professional in a series of internships with hands on work experience where you work in tandem with one of our instructors conducting everything that a real dive professional would.
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  • What you can do as a Professional Scuba Diver
    Working in the dive industry from teaching recreational course to operating research projects and professional photography internships Learn More »
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    A close look at the design of our programmes, options, extras and our affiliate ideas along with safety and security. Learn More »
   



Career Development Scuba Diving
Developing teaching and leadership skills to work as a dive professional and work anywhere in the world in fields from PADI teaching to research, conservation and professional photography. Internships involve hands on training working in tandem with one of our instructors to train divers so that at the end you have all the qualifications and experience that you need to work in the industry.
Professional Training Programmes
There are 2 kinds of PADI professionals in scuba diving. PADI Divemasters are on site managers, coordinating diving operations and leading divers underwater every day. PADI Instructors can also teach courses from novice to professional. Both of these can be used to work in the dive industry and when you finish your programme with us we will set you up with the right contacts to get you started. You may even find yourself working for us.
Further Development
Once you become a diving instructor we will train you to teach in a further 5 speciality areas. This increases your repetoire and employment opportunities, giving you a competetive edge in the scuba diving industry. With the qualifications you have, you need only certify 25 students and can immidieatly upgrade to the next highest instructor, PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer.
Further your Career
Once a PADI Master Scuba Diver trainer you can start a staff instructor internship. A PADI IDC Staff Instructor is an instructor that conducts teaching on Instructor Development Courses (IDC), that is the Instructor that teach Instructors. At the end of these internships you can then staff IDCs leading you straight on to a serious career position in diving, the PADI Course Director.
PADI Course Director
PADI Course Directors are the highest positions in PADI scuba diving. Course Directors (CD) oversee and facilitate instructor training, career development centres and instructor examinations. They are the required component of PADI Instructor Development Centre and have one of the highest gains of any diving position in the world.
   
As a Scuba Diving Professional
Professional Training Professional Diving
Working in the industry
Marine Biology Marine Biology
Projects throughout the world
Red Sea Research Research Diving
Surveys and Conservation
National Geographics National Geographics
Underwater Study
Oceanography Oceanography
Underwater Science
Underwater Photography Underwater Photography
Professional photo development
Underwater Filmography Underwater Videography
Professional video development
Investigations and Forensic Diving Investigation / Forensics
Search and Recovery
Diving Archeology Underwater Archeology
Ancient history below sea level
Diving Throughout the World
Diving Safaris
Diving Throughout the World
Local Safaris
Diving Throughout the World
Other Activities

 
     
Working in the Dive Industry
As a professional trained by Dive The Gap you have all the qualifications and experience to work in the industry. We focus on providing you with everything you need to do this which is why are internships are so heavily focused on work experience. Every single professional who we have trained who wanted to work in the industry is.
Earn a Living whilst Travelling around the world.
With the qualifications and experience that you have at the end of your professional training programmes with us, you can work in any dive operation around the world. We have contacts in popular diving areas, particularly in Asia, and can set you up with the right people so that you can earn a living as you travel around the world.
Progressive Industry
As a professional scuba diver with the more experience you gain the higher the ladder you can climb. This allows you to work your way up to the very top of the industry where you are the one facilitating Instructor Development.
CV Credentials
At the end of our professional programmes you have skills and experiences that will add considerable weight to your CV.
  • Leadership
  • On Site Management and Dive Management
  • Organisation of Operations
  • Teaching Lessons and Effective Demonstrations
  • Outstanding Communication Abilities
  • First Aid and First Aid Instructing
  • Problem Solving
  • Responding effectively in any situation
  • Public Speaking and Preparation
  • Role Model Persona
  • Customer Relations
  • Equipment Maintenance and Servicing
Broad Range of Experiences
As a scuba diving professional you have experince in everything from sales and customer relations, to teaching and leading divers. Your problem management skills, communication and demonstration abilities will be second to none.
World Recognised Lifetime Qualifications
PADI Qualifications are the most recognised scuba diving qualifications in the world with more than 70% of the world divers having been trained by PADI. Qualifications are with you forever and allow you to dive anywhere in the world.
Personal Development
Our professional diving programmes are a fantastic example of what can be achieved personally, professionally and educationally. Develop the transferable teaching skills to lead, inspire and motivate with a highly respectable qualification looked up to by others throughout the world. Develop the communication skills to conquer any situation and the self confidence to face whatever the world may bring.
 
   
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Our Experience
At the moment we have 11 PADI scuba diving professional. We have a combined diving experience of more than 50 years and most of us have awards from PADI for 'recognition of excellence' and certifying students. We have a mixture of PADI Staff Instructors, Master Scuba Diver Trainers, Open Water Scuba Instructors, 2 Divemasters and our Course Director.
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Programme Design and Structure
Dive The Gap programmes combine the educational strengths of the PADI system of diver training and the experience of our professional. Using the cutting edge training methods we put together programme packages that mix PADI diver training with recreational diving whilst providing an experience that builds up characters and develops peoples strengths.
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Customisations and Preferences
Every single Dive The Gap programme can be fully customised to meet individual preferences and needs. The online programmes take advantage of our booking system that allows you to edit every aspect of your programme from accommodation to specialities. This allows you to build a more conservation focused programme, a more diver training focused programme and everything in between. Whilst building your programme you can speak to our instructors in Egypt via the online chat room.
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24 Hour Reception, Security and UK Out of Hours Numbers
Hotel Reception and security operate 24 hours a day. We also provide you with 2 emergency 24 hour contact numbers, one for the onsite director director and one for the UK director.
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Diving Safety
Dive The Gap enforce a strict safety policy. All staff are trained first aid instructors and all dives take all equipment that would be needed in an emergency regardless of where they are going. We train students in safety from day 1 and do not progress in their training until this is mastered. Dive The Gap has a 100% safety record.
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Personal Safety and Security
Dahab is a very safe environment for anyone. With the primary industry in Egypt being tourism any and all things that might threaten its reputation are not tolerated. In Dahab we have tourist police as well as the main police force. The resort also has 24 hour security.
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Diving and Travel Insurance
Diving insurance covers you for all form of diving and travel related accidents. You will find that most travel insurance policies include diving but please contact us to find out appropriate insurance for you.
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Dive Master Insurance
Diving travel insurance specialists covering all the basic level of travel insurance in regular policies but with diving cover, equipment cover and hyperbaric treatment
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Scuba Stocks
Our online dive equipment shop
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DAN - Divers Alert Network
Professional Liability and Accident Protection Insurance for when you become a scuba diving professional. DAN are the industry leading pro diver insurance company who also certify diver medical centres all over the world.
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