Same festival format. Same sponsor pavilion. Same scalable 10-station model. Your venue, your community, your dive shop. We bring the playbook. You bring the divers. Express interest below ... formal applications open after the inaugural FL event proves the format.
You already train divers. You already have a community. Imagine bringing 100 of them together for a Rescue Diver Ready Day at Lake Pleasant in Phoenix. Or Lake Mead. Or Casa Cenote in Tulum. Or Casino Point in Catalina.
You don't have to invent it. The format is built. The sponsor template exists. The brand has weight from the South Florida flagship. You bring the venue and the people. We bring everything else.
Six weekends a year. Done right. Could be the most profitable thing your shop has ever done.
Use the master mark + sub-brand mark for your event city. Co-branded with your shop.
Curriculum, scenario scripts, instructor briefing decks, equipment list, safety protocols.
Schedule, signage spec, registration flow, volunteer roles, day-of run sheets.
Tier sheet, deliverables matrix, sponsor outreach scripts. National sponsors get rolled into your event.
Landing page template, email sequences, social assets, press release boilerplate, photography brief.
The ticket platform. Working checkout. Automatic prereq emails. You collect via your account.
Train your team to run the format. Certification track for licensee instructor leads.
Pre-event consult. Day-of phone access. Post-event debrief. We want you to win.
[ESTIMATE] Council-derived figures, not benchmarked against actual dive-industry licensing comps. Excludes venue cost, instructor fees, food/beverage, gear, and licensee marketing spend. Real margins depend on your local cost structure. Verify against real comps before any contract.
You're a 5-Star IDC. You teach Rescue Diver every quarter. You have a community of repeat divers and a venue you can pull off event-scale logistics at. You're hungry to grow your impact, not just your revenue.
You're 3-5 years in, profitable, and ready to be known regionally. A well-run Diver Ready Day puts you on the map in your market and gives you a flagship event to anchor your year.
Cozumel. Bonaire. Roatan. Tulum. You run a destination dive op that already attracts traveling divers. A Diver Ready Day becomes the reason a traveling group books their week with you.
Quick online form. Tell us about your shop, your venue, your market. Takes 10 minutes.
30-min call with Natalee. We confirm fit, sign the license agreement, you pay the upfront fee.
You get the playbook, the assets, the ticketing setup, and 8 weeks of weekly support calls.
You execute. We're a phone call away on event day. Post-event debrief. You repeat next year.
The 2027 calendar will open for licensee applications after the FL inaugural event in June 2026. Express interest now and we'll loop you in on the founder briefing for shops considering hosting in 2027. [Future program. Not currently accepting commitments.]
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