PADI Dive Master
Looking for a career in scuba diving and getting your fins on the first rung of the professional diving ladder? Entry into the professional levels of recreational scuba diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Our Instructors, Paul, Ed and Karen will fully prepare you for the wonderful underwater world of a PADI Divemaster, or to carry on to the dizzy heights of PADI Assistant Instructor and PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.
You will work closely with our PADI Instructors for an intensive 2 week course or a 4 month internship to attain PADI Divemaster status. In this program you will expand your dive knowledge, develop your leadership abilities, supervise dive activities and assist the instructors with student divers. You'll put knowledge into action through a structured internship or series of practical training exercises. Among other things, you'll be taught how to demonstrate skills to student divers, how to recognise and correct mistakes they might make, and how to advise a customer on the best equipment to suit their needs.
You'll complete in-water skills, rescue techniques and stamina exercises, therefore you need to be fit and healthy!
What's involved
The PADI Divemaster course takes a minimum of 2 weeks and can be taken as an internship (limited places available) of up to 4 months. The course performance requirements are as follows:
- Knowledge development including either the knowledge reviews in the Divemaster Manual or online
- Complete the Divemaster exam
- Create an emergency assistance plan
- Waterskills exercises including: 400m swim, 15min tread water, 800m snorkel swim, 100m inert diver tow & equipment exchange
- Diver rescue assessment
- Complete a diver skills workshop of 24 skills and assessment
- Practical application skills including: dive site setup/management, mapping, briefing & deep dive scenario
- Divemaster-conducted programs including: scuba review, skin diver, discover scuba & local diving
- Practical assessments with students & ceritfied divers
- Meet the professionalism criteria
What's included
It is a PADI requirement that you have your own copies of manuals. With this course we include the Divemaster Crew Pack: Divemaster Application, Brochures and other course documentation, DSD Instructor cue cards, DM Slates, Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving, Diving Knowledge Workbook, Divemaster Manual, Instructor Manual, Divemaster Hologram.
Pre-requisites
- Currently PADI Rescue Diver or equivalent
- Hold the Emergency First Responder qualification or recognized equivalent (completed in the last 2 years)
- Medical statement completed and approval to dive obtained from a medical doctor within the last 12 months
- Min age 18 years
- Have a minimum of 40 logged dives to start the course and at least 60 logged dives to obtain certification.
