Go Pro with the PADI Divemater Internship Course

Our DM internship course is run over 6 weeks, and is aimed at inexperienced divers with about 20 logged dives, or those who want to learn more about the diving business whislt they do their divemaster course. Its a great way to reach that first level of professional diving certification, and its run on Bunaken and Lembeh which means that you can Go Pro whilst diving two of the top dive locations of North Sulawesi and Indonesia.

Two Fish Internship Philosophy

Our philosophy on the internship is to teach you how to be a DM under many circumstances. We therefore include 5 PADI specialty courses as well as the DM course: Nitrox Specialty, Deep Diver Specialty, Night Diver Specialty, Wreck Diver Specialty, and Search & Recover Diver Specialty. We have priced the internship so that the specialties are only €10/dive (instructor fee), this is therefore a great way of getting the right experience necessary to be a good Divemaster.

Why choose Two Fish for your DM Internship

We think that we are different from other dive centers:

Great diving & staff

The diving is excellent & our staff are really friendly. We have had many internship candidates with us and they have all found it hard work but great fun.

You will be on a tropical island and will have a full island experience: interacting with the local staff to get what you need (eg tanks loaded on boats), learning some of the language, helping to deal with guest and courses, doing lots of diving, and doing a professional DM course. Its great to do the internship here, but be warned as you will definitely be spoilt - there is no other diving like this in the world!

Experienced mentors

Unlike your previous courses, the DM course is a mentoring course and you will develop a strong mentor-type relationship with your instructor. This is why all our DM mentors are at least qualified as Staff Instructors, this means that they have already done many DM courses and therefore have the necessary experience to give you a very high quality DM course.

We have 2 Staff Instructors on staff that share the mentoring of the DM candidates. We also have 2 other instructors on staff that will help with some of your training, you will therefore be exposed to some different styles of instructors and this is a great benefit. We also have a 50% ratio of male/female instructors, and this adds another very interesting dimension to doing courses with us.

No Cheap Labour

We do not use our DM candidates as cheap labour as they do in some other shops, where you work in the dive shop and do the minimum number of dives. One of our strengths is the number of entry-level and advanced courses that we run, and we regularly use our internship candidates on these. We try and assign courses for you to look after, and we would expect you to help as follows:

• set up equipment
• help with dive site preparation and briefing
• assisting with teaching underwater
• leading dives
• washing and storing equipment on return
• de-briefing the guests with fish books, etc.

We even try and use our DM candidates when possible to help our guides with the guests so that you can get some experience with looking after certified guests underwater as well as on the land. Our benefit is that we can provide a better level of service for our diving customers.

Two Locations

The internship is based at our location on Bunaken Island. We also have another operation in Lembeh, the muck diving capital of the world, and we run many of the specialities at this resort (Nitrox, Wreck and Search & Recovery). You will therefore get to experience some muck diving in Lembeh as part of your DM internship.

Whats Included

The price of the Divemaster Internship course includes:

• Divemaster Course
• Dives & manuals for the Specialty Courses
• Use of our library of PADI course manuals and videos/DVDs
• Accommodation in budget room for 6 weeks, full board to include food, coffee, tea and drinking water
• Fun diving - in the past our internship candidates have logged more than 30-40 dives with us

Whats Excluded

What is not included in the price of the Divemaster Internship course :

• DM Manuals & Materials – we can provide a DM Crew Pak that includes DM Manual, Knowledge Workbook, Diving Encyclopedia, RDP (RDP Table and eRDP-MultiLevel), DM slates and Instructor guides for programs that DM may conduct. These are mandatory for the DM course.
• PADI DM Membership - at the end of your internship you will need to send off your DM application to PADI and there is an annual fee of A$105 (Australian dollars).
• Visa - you will need to get a 60-day visa, the price is about USD50. You can get these from an Indonesia embassy in your country before you leave; if you are already in Asia then the Indonesian embassies in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur can be used as well.
• Equipment - full dive equipment rental is an extra €100 for the 6weeks. We would also expect you to have a dive computer, and we can provide Suunto computers for sale at very competitive prices.
• Entrance Fee - there is a fee of approx €12 for entrance fee into the Bunaken marine park.
• Airport Transfers - we only ask for a bottle of wine and some novels to add to our library - these are hard to get here and is something that we miss about living on a tropical island!

Pre-requisites for the DM Course

Minimum requirements for starting the Divemaster course are:

• certified as PADI Rescue Diver or equivalent
• have First Aid course certified in the last 12 months (PADI EFR, or equivalent course that includes CPR & AV training)
• have completed and logged 20 dives
• have medical clearance for diving signed by a doctor, attesting to fitness to dive. The medical clearance must be current within the previous 12 months

Life after the Divemaster Course

On top of the Divemaster course, depending on your dates, you can add the Assistant Instructor Course (AI) or the Instructor Development Course (IDC).

Assistant Instructor Course

This can be done as a 3/4-day addition to the Divemaster Intensive Course, or as an extra 1-week to the Divemaster Internship Course. Find out more about the Assistant Instructor Course.

Instructor Development Course (IDC)

The IDC course is a 10-day course, and can be done after the Divemaster or Assistant Instructor courses.

We have a special offer of a 10% discount
on our IDCs for those who do the DM course with us!

We only run an IDC on Bunaken in May/Sep each year, therefore the timing of your Divemaster Course is important to the IDC. If your timing is not good for an IDC on Bunaken, you could do one of the IDCs run throughout the rest of the year in Thailand. Our Course Director works in Koh Lanta, Thailand in the season Oct-May and runs IDC courses during this time, and he will give the same 10% IDC discount to those who do the Divemaster course with us.

Working after the Divemaster Course

Unfortunately we cannot provide any work after your Divemaster course as Indonesia is very strict when it comes to work visa's. Also, it is very expensive to get work visa and we can only get work visa's for 1 year. The best thing we can offer is some guidance after your Divemaster Course. Our Course Director works in Koh Lanta, Thailand in the season Oct-May and he has some very good contacts in the area.