What formal training do staff members complete?
Prerequisites for all Sail Caribbean staff are Wilderness First Aid and current CPR certifications. Then, at the beginning of the summer, our staff spend 10 full days together onsite in the Caribbean training in safety procedures, our curriculum and our philosophy, including concepts of group dynamics and team building. Every day our Program Directors lead staff meetings to discuss the progress of each crew and to address student and program concerns. Our Founding Director, Mike Liese, oversees and supports the Program Directors first hand the entire summer in the Caribbean, sharing the knowledge gained throughout his 28 years of experience running hundreds of Sail Caribbean programs. Our dive staff are all professional dive instructors, representing a range of instructor level certifications from PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors.) Mike Rowe, one of our dive directors, is a PADI Course Director (an instructor of instructors) and has certified over 800 dive instructo
