DIVEMASTER COURSES

Share your passion for SCUBA diving by becoming a PADI Divemaster. As a divemaster you’ll supervise SCUBA diving activities and assist with SCUBA classes. PADI Divemaster is the first step in your diving career.

Divemaster

 

The PADI Divemaster course teaches you to be a leader and take charge of dive activities. Through knowledge development sessions, watermanship exercises and workshops, and hands-on practical assessment, you develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of SCUBA diving activities. Topics and practical workshops include:

 

• The role and characteristics of the PADI Divemaster

• Supervising dive activities and assisting with student divers

• Diver safety and risk management

• Divemaster conducted programs and specialized skills

• Business of diving and your career

• Awareness of the dive environment

• Dive setup and management

• Mapping an open water site

• Conducting dive briefings

• Organizing a search and recovery project and a deep dive

• Conducting a SCUBA review and skin diver course

• Assisting with Discover SCUBA Diving and leading Discover Local Diving programs

 

Course Prerequisites

• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization)

• PADI Rescue Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization)

• Logged 40 dives to start program and 60 dives to receive certification

• Medically evaluated and cleared for diving by a physician within the past 12 months

• Minimum age of 18

Go-Pro Divemaster

 

The Go-PRO Divemaster Program is the all-inclusive first step for the diver that has already made a career decision to become a SCUBA diving professional. It takes the candidate with basic or no diver level certification thru the first level of dive professional, the PADI Divemaster. With this certification, a person is qualified to lead certified divers on recreational dives and assist PADI dive instructors with student training. Successful completion of the Go-PRO Divemaster program meets the prerequisite requirements to enter the PADI instructor program.

 

Course Prerequisites

• Non-Diver or PADI Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization)

• Logged 60 dives to receive certification

• Medically evaluated and cleared for diving by a physician within the past 12 months

• Minimum age of 18