PADI Divemaster training Do you want to become a PADI Professional? The PADI Divemaster is the first professional level with PADI. You have come a long way since your Open Water course, doing your Advanced Open Water, Rescue Diver and maybe some specialties along the way. You are obviously someone who is committed to their diving. It is time to go pro. PADI Divemasters assist with training, conduct some courses themselves, run dive boats, sell dive equipment, and lead dives. They are a very versatile and useful figure for a dive centre to have. PADI Divemasters have role model dive skills and knowledge and are figures that other divers look up to. They also as you can see from their duty list have a large amount of responsibility for other people.
The PADI Divemaster course consists of three phases:
1. Personal watermanship and scuba skills development.
2. Knowledge Development: expand your knowledge of diving theory and practice.
3. Practical application: Assisting Instructors and Divemasters in teaching dive classes and in supervising groups of divers.
The Divemaster Course is a prerequisite to the PADI Instructor rating and therefore the course aims to shape the diver's ability and attitude as professional diving educators.
The goals of Divemaster training are to:
• Enable the Divemaster to organize, conduct and supervise recreational diving activities.
• Enable the Divemaster to effectively act as an instructional assistant.
 As a PADI Divemaster, you’ll be qualified to:
• Act as certified instructional assistant to PADI Instructors.
• Supervise participants in PADI experience programs for uncertified divers.
• Generally supervise both training and no training related diving activities by planning, organizing and directing dives.
• Teach and certify PADI Skin Divers
• Conduct the PADI Scuba Review program for certified divers.
• Lead Discover Scuba Diving and after successful completion of DSD Leadership Training.
• Guide Snorkeling programs after successful completion of DSD Leadership Training.
 • Lead certified divers on Discover Local Diving experiences
• Teach Emergency First Response programs after successful completion of an Emergency First Response Instructor course.
• Conduct the Skin Diving Skills segment of the PADI Open Water Diver course confined Water Diver four under the direction of a PADI Instructor.
• Enroll in PADI Instructor level training
What do I need to take part?
Minimum Age: 18years
Prior experience level: PADI Rescue Diver with 20+ Dives
RSTC Diving Medical signed by a physician (download)
Duration: 2 weeks- 1 month
Materials needed are contained in the Divemaster crewpack (available for purchase from Ocean Geo Divers)
These include:
 • Instructor manual (Compulsory For 2010)
• Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
• Discover Scuba cue card
• Diving Knowledge workbook
• Divemaster led programs on a CD
• PADI Divemaster Manual
• Training Slates
Where can I go from here?
The next step is the big one after you have turned pro. The PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) is a challenging course which takes you from an Instructional assistant to a PADI Instructor. This will qualify you to pass on your love of diving through being able to teach it and therefore introduce it to many more people than you can as a Divemaster. It is the next step of many on the professional ladder and one that is highly rewarding and well worth doing. For more information please go our PADI IDC section.
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