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Programme Features

Do you want to enter the diving industry with a headstart on the competition?
Do you want to teach others to dive?
Become a give guide?
Crew dive charter operations?
Do you want to get into Underwater Photography or Videography?
Work in over 183 countries world-wide?

Then the Diploma in Professional Scuba Instruction is for you. This groundbreaking course has been designed by industry experts to produce graduates with the qualifications required in this dynamic & exciting industry.

During the Diploma programme you will begin by learning to dive & then progress through the PADI system of diver education to become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor with 5 Specialty Instructor ratings. We start Diploma programmes in February & August.

Why Us?

 This is what employers are saying about Dive Otago career graduates:

 "Reason for the e-mail is that I am now the Dive Manager for Fantasea Cruises in the Whitsundays and am looking to fill a full time position and need casual staff. If any of you know someone  looking for a job in such a beautiful location, tell them to send me a resume. I want as many Dive Otago Graduates working for me as I can, they are the best trained Instructors I have come  across."

Inwater Manager, Fantasea Cruises
Whitsundays, Great Barrier Reef
Rowan Hawke

"I'm working at La Manga Club, Spain. Thanks again for making me a dive instructor."
Andy Stewart, graduate 2006