About the Divemaster course

Looking for the first step in working with scuba as a career? Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational scuba diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers. PADI Divemaster is the prerequisite certification for both the PADI Assistant Instructor and PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor certifications.

What you Learn

The Divemaster program teaches you dive leadership skills through classroom, underwater and independent study. You complete water skills and stamina training, as well as teaching exercises that increase your capacity to organize and solve diving problems as well as help others improve their diving and their experience if diving. You put this knowledge into practice during a structured internship or series of practical exercises.

"Thanks for the last 2 months, best experience so far! Cheers to all the DMT’s for making the course a memorable one!!"

What you can Teach

The PADI Divemaster course once completed will give you the ability to:

1. Supervise training and non-training proceedings by planning, organizing and directing dives
2. Assist a Instructor during training sessions for any PADI Diver course
3. Conduct the PADI Skin Diver course and PADI Discover Snorkeling program
4. Conduct the PADI Discover Local Diving Experience
5. Conduct the PADI Scuba Review program
6. If you qualify as a Discover Scuba Diving Leader, independently conduct the PADI Discover Scuba Diving program.
7. If you complete the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty Instructor rating you will be able to teach the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer specialty.
8. Independently guide Open Water Diver course students on the tour portion of Open Water Diver course Training Dives 2, 3 and 4 at a ratio of two student divers per certified divemaster.
9. Accompany Open Water Diver students under the implicit supervision of a PADI Instructor during:
10. surface swims to and from the entry/exit point and during navigational exercises
11. when the instructor conducts a skill, such as an ascent or descent, a Divemaster can remain with other student divers (with an individual student or buddy team)
12. Accompany student divers during Adventure Dives or Specialty training dives under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor.
13. Conduct the PADI Seal Team Skin Diver Specialist AquaMission
14. Conduct later dives under an instructor’s indirect supervision for Discover Scuba Diving clients after clients have satisfactorily completed the first dive with a PADI Instructor.
15. After successfully completing an Emergency First Response Instructor course you will be able to teach Emergency First Response course.