UTD Dive Professional Residency Program

UTD Dive Professional Residency Program

This unique, five-month residence course takes you from diver to instructor, trains you to become a complete dive professional, and outfits you with a complete kit of technical dive gear. Work in a dive shop, resort, on a cruise ship, anyplace a professional instructor would work.

You’ll work side by side with UTD Instructors, Divemasters, and Administrators in a 50-hour per week program that provides you with daily schedules and responsibilities. While training at UTD’s Southern California facility, you will not only learn how to dive to demonstration standards, but also how to work in the dive industry.

The program is carefully designed to give you plenty of time to explore underwater, while also working as an assistant in UTD classes, ultimately teaching your own UTD classes. You will complete the program with a minimum of 20 pool sessions and 120 cold water dives at depths to 130’/39m over five monthly cycles.

Cycle 1 • Recreational Diver

• Rec 1/ Essentials
• Practice Dives
• Rec 2/Nitrox
• Rescue

Cycle 2 • Dive Technician

• Cylinder Inspection Tech
• Gas Blender
• Regulator Service Tech
• Dive - Intro to Tech
• DPV

Cycle 3 • Tech Diver

• Tech 1
• Class Internships and Experience Dives
• Divemaster

Cycle 4 • Instructor

• Open Water Instructor Development Course
• Class Internships and Experience Dives

Cycle 5 • Internship

• Placement in a dive shop, dive boat, resort, or some other appropriate situation.

The Dive Professional Program includes a full kit of technical dive equipment including -

• Dry Suit
• Undergarments
• Backplate and Wing
• Regulators
• Mask and Backup Mask
• Primary LED Light
• Backup Light
• Wetnotes
• 100'/30m Spool
• Plus all UTD Student and Instructor Materials and one year instructor membership.

Program Costs:

Training totals, includes all classes and materials, $12,000.

Equipment totals, includes above list, includes instructor discounts, $6,500.

Program total, $18,500.

Financing Package:

$1500 deposit to hold a position.

$5000 to begin.

24 monthly payments of $565.