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Blue Planet Aquarium seeks part-time diver
A fantastic opportunity has arisen at Blue Planet Aquarium, located in northwest England at Cheshire Oaks, for a part-time diver to join its team.
This is a unique opportunity to work with a vast array of exotic animals and sharks housed in a 3.8 million litre exhibition display. Blue Planet Aquarium is home to over 100 living displays across 16 themed zones taking guests on a journey of underwater discovery. It is home to Europe’s largest collection of sharks housed in one of Europe’s largest underwater tunnel exhibits.
You will be responsible for the daily management of briefing and guiding diving experiences in the main tank and ensuring consistently high standards of presentation and guest delivery. Briefing guests and conducting shark dives, you will be key to delivering memorable experiences.
Other responsibilities will include the maintenance and cleaning of the main exhibit, and scuba diving as part of the aqua-theatre shows.
You will be a minimum PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor and be able to obtain a HSE medical. You will need to be a good communicator, with the ability to deliver diving briefs, create amazing guest interaction and dive experiences, and have a working knowledge of the correct use of dive equipment.
A good understanding of dive profiles, dive logging and dive theory to ensure dives are within company policies will also be required.
As this is an active role, you must be physically fit and capable of working with others. A flexible approach to working hours is also essential.
The post is part time, with weekend and evening shifts on a rota basis. You must be available a minimum of three days per week, of which two days should cover Friday, Saturday or Sunday in line with the needs of the business.
If interested, please send your CV and covering letter to: Janeen Yates, Aspro UK Group HR Manager, c/o Blue Planet Aquarium, Cheshire Oaks, Cheshire, CH65 9LF. Alternatively, email recruitment@asprouk.com.
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
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