Career Development
We train our students not only to become recreational divers, but we want to invest experience in them to expand this wonderful underwater hobby towards a love for the earth, to incorporate it into a career, or to make a career of diving.
Many individuals use diving as a means to gain access to the marine world during their studies as Marine Biologists - where they can observe, support and sustain improvement in the field of Science of the Marine environment.
To become a marine biologist, you don't necessarily need to go to a college that offers a marine biology degree. You don't even need to go to a school with an ocean nearby. The key to becoming a successful marine biologist starts with a solid background in basic science—biology, chemistry, and yes, physics.
CMAS also offers our students the opportunity to run their own dive charters and train other diving enthusiasts. You can operate from the coast to the inland water areas and provide excellent opportunities to people to experience the world of SCUBA.
The dive charter is the best way to allow holiday makers to experience and to safely dive some of the most beautiful reefs in South Africa. If you want to run your own business with the added advantage of being at the sea all year around - this is the way. We offer courses ranging from beginners open water diving to instructors courses.
CMAS also understands the requirement or sometimes the desire to conduct research and experience the deeper or almost impossible-to-reach underwater areas. Technical diving is a very advanced form of scuba diving and enables divers to not only reach deeper areas (current world record is 276 meters), but also those areas where the normal swimmer or diver will never reach. In 2000, a group of three divers from Triton in Sodwana, discovered the few remaining coelacanths at a depth of ±100 meters, and since then discovered up to 25 individual coelacanths.Din is a popular choice on business and tech sites. It’s also a good font for creating page titles with impact.
Scuba diving is however, not restricted to recreational and technical diving. Many people start of as recreational divers and then see the opportunity to pursue a career as a commercial diver. These highly sought after divers conduct diving in various conditions in different areas of South Africa as well as the world.
They are required to conduct repairs on ships and harbours whilst they are submerged where it is either impossible or too expensive to conduct work on these structures on the surface. With highly lucrative salaries, these divers are used all over the world and by an increasingly wider group of marine organisations.
These divers conduct underwater repairs when it is impossible for mechanical equipment to conduct the repairs or installations. Very often they are employed when pipe lines must be installed or repaired.
For those that wants to pursue a career in the military, the Navy are training divers to function in operational military situations.
Naval divers are seen as elite personnel and are called upon to conduct rescue operation, salvaging of military equipment as well as offensive operations. Here you don't only enjoy diving, but you see strange things and different countries and people. From rescue to salvaging to operations.
When having fun ends up in disaster, the divers are called upon to assist to get the problem solved - especially underwater problems.
This can include small parts like outboards, but also major recoveries like boats and vehicles. Probably the most dangerous of them all as it may not always be visible from the surface. This also include search and recovery of missing persons, etc. where the police divers are called to assist in the search.
Search and recovery ranges from private equipment to government owned equipment to major recoveries of ships and oil rigs.
These divers work hard but earn a lot. Major ships have been recovered with the aid of divers, specifically trained to conduct such operations.
If you want to enjoy diving - get trained to do recreational scuba.
If you want to investigate the deep - commence with scuba and your limits is endless.
If you want to pursue a career - get into your scuba gear and join the endless opportunities.
You can:
- Dive in the Military,
- Dive for the Police,
- Dive as a commercial diver,
- Dive as a research diver,
- Dive and conduct research as a career,
- Dive and help salvage the many lost items in our oceans,
- Dive as your own researcher as a Marine Biologist,
- Start your own business as a dive Charter and spoil people as well as training of many like you.