comercial scuba diving?????
are there any places that train comercial divers for free. im guessing if they did youd have to do a internship with them for a certain time. tell me more if you can. otherwise, where is a good place to train, how long? how much money? any other info like risks n stuff will be good.
ever heard if a sponsorship. you get the training then you work for them for a certain time. not rocket science
im a divemaster, worked as a spanner boy for a while so im very educated in basic welding and tools. did tech rec for a while but not certified
'Fraid not. You have to pay to play.
You need to be a little more specific here as well. A commercial scuba diver has their restricted ticket. You have to have your recreational open water cert to even take it. A Restricted scuba will then let you dive scuba commercially. It's also the first part of a surface supplied commercial course so many training facilities will let you take just that part of the course without going full blown commercial diver. Typically the restricted portion will cost you about 1200 bucks on top of your open water cert.
After that, there's the surface supplied portion ( not scuba). This is the expensive part. Expect a full course to run you 9 grand and up, depending on if this course includes room and board or not. A surface supplied course usually only takes about 4 months to complete.
What's a good place to train? Where you feel comfortable with the instruction, your budget and a facility that's HSE, ADAS or IMCA compliant and recognized by any of those agencies. In a nut shell...that's just about every commercial dive school there is. They need that recognition to be able to offer a course.
Edit: No such thing as a sponsorship when it comes to commercial dive training unless a local charity runs some sort of financial service. Tell you what. Why not apply for a government student grant or a local charity? The grant you'll have to repay. An internship is great...problem is you won't step foot on a dive site without the training first. You're a liability without it. Right off the bat your employer will be violating his insurance agreements not to mention many countries labor laws. No employer would touch you. Even being a DM, you still NEED the training first ( you'll be paying for it) and you might possibly be accepted as an intern with the training school but that is simply to gain experience as an already trained diver,DM or Instructor. You won't be getting any pay other than the ability to write on your CV that you spent time as an intern. That's it. You still have to come up with the money for the course.
So you're a DM? Nobody cares about that as a commercial diver. It's a skill set that's useless to an employer. Everything you think you've learned means nothing. You will be starting from scratch, just like an open water diver starting the course. If you're a DM, you should know this by now. Hell, you won't be doing anything but tender first year on the job to boot after the course.
I own a small inland dive service. I would toss your CV in the can without a CSA or HSE. I don't want to spend money training you even if I was able to do it, insurance and regulations aside, just to see you fly the coop. That's stupid. Nobody would take you on as is.
That ain't rocket science.
Good luck but if you want to dive commercially other than being a self employed golf ball retriever or hull cleaner...you'll still need to go to school for it.
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