Divemaster

After you’ve completed the PADI Rescue Diver course, you’re ready for PADI Divemaster. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities by teaching you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers.

PADI Divemasters

* Work with local dive centers, on live-aboard dive boats, yachts and at exotic resort locations
* Assist PADI Instructors with scuba classes
* Lead PADI Scuba Divers on guided dive tours
* Teach and certify PADI Skin Divers
* Conduct PADI Scuba Review programs for certified divers
* Conduct Discover Local Diving orientations
* Teach The Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty Course after successfully completing a Digital Underwater Specialty Instructor Training Course.
* Teach Emergency First Response CPR and First Aid programs after completing the Emergency First Response instructor training program.

Prerequisites:

* PADI Rescue Diver certification or qualifying certification from another organization
* 20 logged dives

What it takes:

* Learn dive leadership skills through classroom sessions and by using the PADI Divemaster Manual and Video.
* Complete a series of waterskills and stamina exercises in confined and open water environments.
* Three required training exercises that test organizational and problem solving abilities.

1. Mapping a dive site, including underwater and surface features
2. Equipment exchange: demonstrate the ability to solve unanticipated problems underwater
3. Conduct a simulated or actual class, under the supervision of a PADI Instructor

* Internship or Practical Training Exercises (choose one)
* Internship: hands-on experience supervising and assisting divers in actual PADI programs, under the guidance of a PADI Instructor
* Practical Training Exercises: simulated scenarios in supervising and assisting divers, under the supervision of a PADI Instructor
* Must have a minimum of 60 logged dives to complete the PADI Divemaster course.