🧭 Certified Field Guide (Marine) (CFG)

        Where Knowledge Meets Ocean Experience

Are you ready to step beyond theory and into the wild heart of marine guiding?
This is where your skills come alive — at sea, with real guests, real wildlife, and real responsibility.

The Certified Field Guide (Marine) (CFG) is a 5-day immersive course designed to transform you into a confident, competent, and conservation-driven marine guide. Led by experienced mentors and delivered through our WCA-certified training facility, this is your gateway to guiding with purpose.

🌟 Why Take This Course?

✔ You’ve studied the marine world — now you’re ready to guide others through it.
✔ You want confidence in the field, not just theory in a workbook.
✔ You want to feel the ocean under your feet and the responsibility of leading real guests.
✔ You’re serious about making marine wildlife tourism your career — and doing it right.

💙 Perfect for:

Eco-tourism professionals, aspiring marine educators, deckhands, interns, wildlife volunteers, and anyone who has completed Level 2 (CMG) or has equivalent experience.

📚 What You’ll Learn

Throughout the 5-day experience, you will build practical mastery in:

• Species identification in real-time conditions

• Guiding techniques under live tour conditions

• Guest engagement, interpretation, and storytelling

• Vessel safety, spotting, and emergency awareness

• Teamwork, communication, and leadership at sea

• Conservation messaging that inspires your audience

You won’t just learn how to guide — you’ll become a guide.

🗓️ How the Course Runs

Each day is structured to blend morning classroom learning with afternoon live tour guiding:

08:00 – 12:00 — At the WCA Training Facility

• Training modules with instructors

• Daily quiz on home study subjects

• Guiding tools, binocular skills, and safety practice

• Species ID and communication drills

12:00 – 12:45 — Lunch break

12:45 – 13:15 — Meet at E-Ko Shop, Picton

• Receive your daily guiding tasks

• Prepare guest briefing

13:30 – 17:30 — On-Water Practice

• Participate in 4-hour wildlife tours with paying guests

• Rotate roles in interpretation, spotting, guest care, and commentary

• Receive coaching and feedback from a certified trainer

🎓 Day 5 – Graduation & Certification

Your final day is your moment to lead:

• 📝 Morning: Written & oral exams (species, safety, storytelling)

• 🌊 Afternoon: Final guiding day — you take the lead

• 📘 Sea Time Logs & WCA Record Book completed

• 🧾 Certificate + reference letter presented

• 🎉 Evening: Celebration dinner with your training team

This isn’t just a certificate. It’s your entry into a global community of professional marine guides.

🎁 What You Receive

• ✅ Certified Field Guide (Marine) digital certificate

• 📘 WCA Training Record Book + Sea Time Log entries

• 🌐 Priority access to marine guiding job listings

• 🧾 Professional reference letter for your career

• 💬 Ongoing access to MGT alumni network

🔒 Entry Requirements

• Level 1– Certified Whale Guide (CWG), or equivalent experience

• Physically able to participate in on-water guiding

• English-speaking (for guest safety & communication)

💵 Course Investment

Full 5-Day Course: $499 USD – $799 NZD
Includes tuition, daily training, on-water access, assessments, certification, and celebration dinner.

📍 Delivered in beautiful Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand

🌊 Join the Journey

This course is for those who want more than a job — they want to guide with heart, inspire others, and protect our oceans with every tour.

🎯 Are you ready to become a Certified Field Guide (Marine)?

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