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The owners are Swedish and Polish: Ken moved to Cozumel about 10 years ago and Kaja joined around 6 years ago. On August 15th our first baby, Maximilian, was born on Cozumel. School's permanent staff are from USA, UK, Canada & Germany. They work in management, social media and primarily as dive instructors.
Our staff speaks English, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, French, German & Italian.
Divers and students live in the Dive House located on-site with the school. We can have around 20 people living in the Dive House and private or semi-private rooms. We like to call us a dive family - growing with each new diver - and we even have two scuba cats: Rico & Ginger to complete the picture.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Babysitting and creative play
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Cozumel is one of the 'pueblos magicos' of Mexico and undoubtedly the best place to dive in Quintana Roo. If you are interested in marine protection programs and getting to know the underwater world better, the island has it all for you.
If you are a diver already, you will get free shore diving 2-3 days a week to give you more scuba experience. If you want to do a recreational dive course with us, you'll have 10% discount.
Our 'dive family' is made of people coming from all over the world. Currently we have divers from Sweden, Poland, USA, UK, Germany, France, Belgium & Canada. Most of the people diving with us are travellers who stay on the island for a week/month or up to 6 months before moving to next destination. You will have lots of people to draw inspiration from and to share your travel stories with!
Help
We need outgoing people who can promote the dive school, keep the Dive House clean and help us taking care of the guests. Help with gardening and eco-projects will be highly appreciated! We prefer divers or those willing to become certified - everything we do is related to diving! You need to have a driving license (have the physical document with you) and preferably be able to drive manual cars, not only automatic.
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
Polish: Fluent
Swedish: FluentThis host offers a language exchange
As we have a very multinational team, English is the first language we use in the school, but we also have a few Spanish-speaking instructors and usually many divers willing to learn!
Accommodation
Most of our short- and long-term students live in the Dive House with us.
The school is in a 3-floor building, with Dive House dorms on the 1sr floor, some private & semi-private accommodation options, classroom, video room & office on the 2nd floor and Ken, Kaja & Max' private area on the top floor. Cats' kingdom is kind of everywhere. Each Dive House dorm has 2 bunk beds, AC unit, its own bathroom & lockable drawers (bring your own padlock). A big kitchen and living room are shared. We have our training pool on-site.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Our Dive house has good WiFi, with some quiet work areas available. Printing and scanning is possible on-site.
Space for parking camper vans
Free, secure parking on the street.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
15 hours per week, about 2.5 hours a day, 6 days/week
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Yo fui para atudarlos en una sitiación extraordinaria y me iba a quedar solo tres y finalmente me acabe quedando 7 semanas.
Me hicieron sentir como en casa, como en una gran familia.
Me lo pase increiblemente bien y Kaja y Ken son un amor.
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She is very organized and easy going. It was a please to have her with us and we hope she will come back again.
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Yo fui para atudarlos en una sitiación extraordinaria y me iba a quedar solo tres y finalmente me acabe quedando 7 semanas.
Me hicieron sentir como en casa, como en una gran familia.
Me lo pase increiblemente bien y Kaja y Ken son un amor.
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Without a doubt, the best… read more
She is very organized and easy going. It was a please to have her with us and we hope she will come back again.
The work expectations were very clear and fair!
I hope to see you again in the future for more diving at some point 🤙🏻
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Always willing to help out and we would recommend them to anyone that need a workaway.
Nice meeting you guys and lets hope we see each other around the world in the future.
/Ken
She is now an Advanced Open Water diver and improved her dive skills during the month she was diving with us.
Best of luck to your onwards travel.
She kept our house in perfect condition and was more than helpful with our eco project.
She built a compost so we can reduce our waste.
To future hosts we highly recommend to accept Eli.
And to Eli keep diving and best of luck in your future travel. Let me know if you end up in… read more
He completed the task we gave him and always wanted to do more.
Also his dive skills are really good, excellent help with customers.
Keep diving buddy and if you are in the area come on by. Welcome to the dive family.
/Ken, Kaja & Meg
Cheers !
