Diver Ready is the only national festival-format training platform for divers across the PADI ladder. Founding sponsors get the audience, the activation, the lead capture, and the story of being the brand that showed up first.
Sources: US active diver count via DEMA 2024 Fast Facts (sourced from Sports & Fitness Industry Association). Per-diver spending from Business of Diving Institute / InDepth Magazine 2023 spending survey, n=925, supported by Shearwater + DAN Europe + GUE. "Core divers" defined as 25+ dives/year US-based.
Equipment demos at the dive site. Not a folding table at a trade show. Divers try your gear in the conditions you designed it for. They remember.
Every diver opts in for prerequisite emails. Founding sponsors get the contact list. These are buyers, not browsers.
A pro photo + video team is on-site. You get the footage of your gear in action. Your social, your campaigns, your sales deck.
Your brand backed diver safety when it was uncomfortable to talk about. PR rides this for years. Trust compounds.
Founding sponsors get first call on every future market. Phoenix. Seattle. San Diego. Charleston. You hold category lock as the platform grows.
Sponsor-branded training tips, gear reviews, athlete-style features. We produce. You distribute. Your audience grows on the back of ours.
Year 2-3 outlook: Founding renewals price up to $50K-$75K once the inaugural proves the format. Multi-event Founding packages (4 cert tiers × multi-market) reach $150K-$250K by Year 3. The Year 1 numbers above are intentionally accessible to land the first 3-4 Founding partners.
Underwrite a specific part of the event. Your brand owns it on signage, in the program, in announcements, on social.
Branded water + electrolyte station. The bar everyone hits between every dive. Maximum impressions.
The food everyone talks about. Naming on the menu, the tent, the post-event recap.
The most aligned naming opportunity in the whole event. For DAN, for AED brands, for medical sponsors.
Underwrite training for divers who couldn't otherwise attend. The most reputation-positive sponsorship in the program.
Headline the equipment showcase. Try-before-you-buy at scale. The whole event stops here.
The brand attached to every shareable image and reel from the event. Massive earned-media tail.
Diver Ready is a category creation. Festival-format training across the PADI ladder, multi-tenant from day one, with a licensing scaffold that puts the format in every major dive market in three years. Founding sponsors are the brands that get to be part of the origin story.
The 2026 inaugural is a 100-diver event in South Florida. The 2028 footprint is six events across the country. By 2029 we are a national platform.
Request the founding deck"Hi, Natalee van Staden from Divers Cove. We're building Rescue Diver Ready ... a 100-diver, festival-format Rescue Diver certification event in South Florida this June, with the long-term plan to scale across cert tiers and markets. We have founding sponsor slots open for the inaugural. Garmin would be the dive-tech anchor. Worth a 20-minute call?"
This is our drafted opener for Natalee to make her own. She'll personalize it for each brand based on who she knows there.
Pencil status. Confirmed status. Let's-talk status. Here's the truth about where the roster is right now.
All brands shown are in discussion, not yet confirmed. Page only displays signed sponsors at launch. Founding tier closes April 1, 2026 or when sold out.
You'll get the full pricing sheet, the deliverables matrix, the Year 1 to Year 3 audience model, and a 20-minute calendar slot with Natalee.