Whether you're starting a career, taking a sabbatical, or just want to dive vastly more than a holiday allows — a divemaster internship is the way to do it. Find out what sets ours apart.
PADI Divemaster Internship, Roatan
Six to twelve weeks — you choose. Unlimited diving from day one. No fixed start dates. Roatan, Honduras — on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.
The reef is yours from day one
Unlimited diving is included. No cap.
All diving is included in the programme — no cap and no extra cost for more dives. The average trainee leaves with between 60 and 100 dives recorded across wall dives, wrecks, sandy channels, sea mounts, and Roatan's shallow reef gardens. Some candidates log more. The only limit is space on the boat.
If you haven't yet logged the 40 dives required to formally begin your Divemaster course, that is not a problem. We start you diving immediately on arrival to build your logbook — at no extra cost. The unlimited diving starts on arrival, not once the paperwork is done.
Many Divemaster courses teach you the syllabus and send you out qualified. A Divemaster internship does something different — it puts you in the water and on the team from day one, learning by doing. You join Coconut Tree Divers as part of the operation, not as a student with a timetable. Over a minimum of six weeks you shadow our staff, take on progressively more responsibility, and build the kind of judgment that only comes from real situations on real dives.
There are no fixed start dates. Begin any week of the year. If six weeks suits you, that works. If you want twelve weeks, that is equally fine — there is no pressure to rush through. The internship is yours to shape.
It is worth being straightforward about one thing: an internship does not mean free. We do not offer courses in exchange for labour. Our instructors invest significant time coaching and mentoring every candidate, and that time is too valuable to give away. What you are paying for is that attention — the kind that produces confident, capable dive professionals rather than people who have simply ticked the boxes.
PADI's own research describes a Divemaster internship as the best route to becoming the best Divemaster you can be. It has been our approach since Go Pro Caribbean opened, and it is why the instructors trained here perform the way they do.
Find your pathway — certifications needed to become a PADI Divemaster
Do you hold an entry-level scuba certification?
PADI Open Water, PADI Scuba Diver, or an equivalent from any recognised agency (SSI, NAUI, BSAC, CMAS, etc.).
Be part of a tribe, but not lost in the crowd
What the internship looks like
You join the Coconut Tree Divers team from day one — not as a student with a timetable, but as part of the operation. Over a minimum of six weeks you build real experience in three areas
Assisting instructors at every level — from first-time divers through to Rescue Diver — in the classroom, confined water, and open water.
Leading certified divers at different sites in varying conditions. This is where judgment develops — and where most of your dives happen.
Focused sessions with an experienced instructor — water skills, rescue scenarios, dive theory — to professional standard.
Open Water to Divemaster
Includes AOW, Rescue and Divemaster
AOW to Divemaster
Includes Rescue and Divemaster
Rescue to Divemaster
Most direct route to professional
Divemaster + Instructor
Two pro qualifications, one trip
Located centrally on the white sand, palm-fringed beach of Half Moon Bay, West End, Roatan
Roatan sits on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef — the second-largest coral reef system in the world. Water temperatures stay above 26°C year-round. Visibility regularly exceeds 25 metres. The dive sites around West End range from shallow coral gardens to 40-metre wall dives, sea mounts, and wrecks — all within a short boat ride of the shop. You will encounter something new on almost every dive.
West End is a small, walkable community. The dive shop, restaurants, cafes, and everything you need are within a few minutes on foot. From the day you arrive until you finish the internship, you are in the right place. Go Pro Caribbean's own accommodation — a purpose-built house with a private pool — is a short walk away, with rooms from $5 per night.
The Divemaster is the first professional PADI certification — and the direct prerequisite for the Instructor Development Course. Many candidates who complete the internship here go on to their IDC with Will Welbourn. As a PADI Platinum Course Director who has certified more than 500 instructors since 2008, Will can talk you through the full pathway from day one of your internship. Go Pro Caribbean is deliberately small — every candidate gets Will's direct attention throughout their training, not a rotating cast of staff instructors.
If becoming a PADI instructor is your goal, where you do your Divemaster internship matters. The foundation you build here sets the standard for everything that follows.
A short walk from the shop, Go Pro Caribbean's 13-bedroom house sits on a shared acre of property with Roatan Oasis and has its own private swimming pool. Choose from seven ensuite rooms with shared kitchen from $5/night, or one of three two-bedroom apartments with a private kitchen from $20/night per room.
Are you ready to Join our Tribe?
Certification pathway
Ready to join the tribe?
All internship packages include unlimited diving.
Accommodation in West End from $5 per night.
Open Water to Divemaster
Includes AOW, Rescue and Divemaster
AOW to Divemaster
Includes Rescue and Divemaster
Rescue to Divemaster
Most direct route to professional
Divemaster + Instructor
Two pro qualifications, one trip