PADI Divemaster Course

Go Pro - Your First Step in the Professional Direction.

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 programme. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, you will 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.

The course will fine-tune your diving skills whilst introducing you to the theory behind diving. Learn about dive physics, physiology, and equipment.

As a Divemaster you will be able to assist our instructors on some courses. But the exciting thing is you can instruct some courses as well as guiding local dive trips.

Course Structure

Theory (eLearning)
Independent online study prior to the course in our digital classroom. You will be presented with videos and slides to teach you all need to know before moving on to the practical skills. We will also have class sessions that will help.
Confined Water (Pool)
In the pool you will develop your demonstration skills and how to supervise divers. Revison on your rescue skills will also be reviewed and you will learn the procedures to instruct courses such as PADI Skin Diver Course. Once these are proficient in the pool, then the ocean beckons.

Open Water Training
You will learn to superivse in the ocean as well as guiding divers around your local dive sites.

Training Materials

The PADI Divemaster crewpak includes:

• PADI Divemaster Manual
• Divemaster slates
• PADI Instructor Manual
• The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving - a comprehensive overview of diving physics, physiology, and equipment
• Scuba Tune-up Guidebook
• PADI Professional Log DSD Cue Cards
• PADI Pro Bag
• PADI Divemaster Application package

There are other required materials that a Divemaster Candidate will need but may have received them during other PADI programs so they have not been included in the Divemaster Crew-Pak. Please ask your PADI Instructor for the full list of required materials that you will need for the program.

Divemaster Qualification

After becoming certified as a PADI Divemaster you will be authorized to:

• Supervise both training and non-training-related activities by planning, organising and directing dives
• Assist a PADI Instructor during the training sessions for any PADI Diver course
• Conduct the PADI Skin Diver course and PADI Discover Snorkeling programme
• Conduct the PADI Discover Local Diving experience
• Conduct the PADI Scuba Review programme
• If qualified as a Discover Scuba Diving Leader, independently conduct the PADI Discover Scuba Diving programme.
• Earn the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty Instructor rating to be able to teach the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty.
• 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.
• Accompany Open Water Diver students under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor during: surface swims to and from the entry/exit point and during navigational exercises 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)
• Accompany student divers during Adventure Dives or Specialty training dives under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor.
• Conduct the PADI Seal Team Skin Diver Specialist AquaMission Conduct subsequent dives under an instructor’s indirect supervision for Discover Scuba Diving participants after participants have satisfactorily completed the first dive with a PADI Instructor.
• Teach Emergency First Response courses after successfully completing an Emergency First Response Instructor course.

Schedule Options

Your schedule will be designed on a case by case basis. We can offer both Full-Time and Part-Time

Private For private courses we can customise your schedule to suit. Call 0800 DIVE OTAGO to organise this today 

Prerequisites

Diving Certification
You need at least an PADI Rescue Diver and have 40 logged dives.

First Aid Certification
You need to be Certified in basic first aid and CPR within the past 24 months. (We will need to see proof of this.

Age
The minimum age is 18 years old.

Medical History 
All student divers complete an RSTC Medical Form that asks about medical conditions that could be a problem while diving. As this is a professional dive course you also need to get your RSTC Medical Form signed off by your doctor. It is our recomendation that you see a Designated Diving Doctor.

Swimming
You will need to demonstrate basic water skills to be sure you’re comfortable in the water. This is a 200-metre/yard swim or 300-metre/yard swim using a mask, fins and snorkel without stopping. There is no time limit for this and you may use any swimming stroke you want.

Language Requirements
We are able to give you the theory portion of this course in a number of different languages but it is important that you also have good conversational english skills. Our instructors need to give you very important safety instructions verbally in the pool and at the dive site and they need to know that you fully comprehend what they are saying. If we are not confident that you will understand us please don’t be offended it is for the safety of our instructors as well as the other divers you will be diving with.

links

• Download an Information Sheet
• Download RSTC Medical
• Sign in to your eLearning