Dive Boat Crew & Vessel Support

Responsibilities

• Crew dive charter vessels for daily dive departures from Playa del Carmen to Cozumel and Riviera Maya sites: manage passenger boarding, tank rigging and security, equipment stowage, and diver entry and exit from the vessel
• Prepare and check scuba tanks for each day's dive operation: fill-level confirmation, visual valve inspection, BCD attachment, and regulator first-stage connection for the dive instructor and diver client tanks
• Assist divers entering the water: assist with weight belt and BCD final checks, help with giant stride or backroll entry, confirm diver is at the surface and signaling correctly before the boat moves
• Manage in-water diver safety during surface intervals: watch the water during surface intervals for any diver who surfaces unexpectedly away from the group; manage the recall flag and diver descent line
• Assist the boat captain with navigation and vessel management: line handling, anchor deployment and retrieval, position holding during dive stops, and communication with the dive site's surface marker buoy system
• Conduct post-dive equipment rinse, tank management, and vessel clean-down for the following day's departure

Requirements

• Boat crew experience; marine environment comfort
• Scuba diving knowledge preferred (Open Water Diver minimum for context); Divemaster training an advantage
• Physical fitness for daily tank handling (12kg aluminum tanks, multiple per dive)
• SEMAR or dive boat crew certification
• English and Spanish bilingual for international dive charter passenger management

Benefits

• IMSS, aguinaldo, paid vacation + premium
• Fixed monthly + dive charter crew tip share
• Daily access to Cozumel reef environment
• Divemaster training pathway support from dive center employer
• Career advancement to Divemaster and then dive instructor path

Work environment

Dive charter vessel crew in Playa del Carmen. Daily Cozumel and Riviera Maya reef operations supporting the world's most active Caribbean dive charter market.

About the role

The dive boat crew who looks after 16 divers across two tank dives and a surface interval — who knows which diver had buoyancy issues on the first dive and keeps a quiet eye on them during the second water entry — who celebrates with the group when the first-timer surfaces with the biggest grin they've ever had — is doing the support work that makes dive education possible. The instructors get the credit; the boat crew makes it safe.