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  Are you ready to become a PADI Professional? The PADI Divemaster course is your first step into the ranks of being a professional level diver. The main function of the PADI Divemaster course is to teach you how to handle dive logistics (planning dive trips, organizing dive boat logistics etc,) and assisting PADI Instructors with student divers. As with many other PADI courses, the Divemaster course is divided into sections, these are, knowledge development, confined water sessions and open water sessions. During the Divemaster course students must also complete a watermanship session, where you must demonstrate a high proficiency in the water by completing various swimming exercises. The course requires a minimum of 3-4 weeks to complete, depending on previous experience. Please Contact Us to discuss the length of time required to complete the course.
Knowledge Development
12 Topics witch you will cover through independent study, projects, and discussions. The main books for your studies are:
- Divemaster Manual
- Encyclopedia of Recreational diving
- Diving Knowledge Workbook
- Instructor Manual
The divemaster course consists of eight exams, which you will study for them with the books, the video, with the help from your instructor and by having discussions with your fellow students. After you complete your studies, you will take the PADI Divemaster Exams, which are written tests on the topics you studied. You will need to earn 75% or better on each exam for certification. If you earn less on an exam, you will take a makeup after you have had ample time to restudy the material.
There are eight required PADI Divemaster Exams:
- Physics,
- Physiology and First Aid,
- Equipment,
- Decompression Theory and the RDP,
- Dive Skills and the Environment,
- Supervising Activities for Certified Divers,
- Supervising Student Divers in Training,
- PADI Divemaster Conducted Programs
As well as these exams, candidates must complete a dive site map and an emergency assistance plan during the knowledge development portion of the course.
Confined Water Sessions
The confined water sessions of the Divemaster course start with the watermanship section. This section is designed to ensure that you have a reasonable level of personal fitness, and a fairly competent swimmer. Each exercise is timed, and a score awarded for the time in which you complete the exercise. You need to reach a certain total to pass. Swims can be retaken if necessary, until the totals needed have been reached. It is a good idea to practice these swims if you are unsure about your swimming ability.
Water Skills and Stamina
- 400 meter/yard swim
- 15 minute survival float
- 800 meter/yard snorkeling
- 100 meter/yard inert diver push/tow
- rescue of a non-breathing diver at surface
The following skills must be performed Demonstration Quality Basically this means that the skills are done in a slow passed over exaggerating all the moves that you do to perform the skill. For example, normally you would clear your mask in a matter of seconds, using 1 hand or 2 hands. But now that a student is watching you how to do it so, the more clear and exaggerated you perform the skill the better. After all students copy you, so if you do it perfect, there is a high chance they will do it perfect as well.
Demonstration quality Basic Skills
- Equipment assembly, adjustment, preparation, donning and disassembly
- Predive safety check (BWRAF)
- Deep water entry
- Buoyancy check at surface
- Five point descent
- Remove and Replace weight system
- Fin Pivot (Neutral buoyancy)
- Five point ascent
- Snorkel-regulator snorkel exchange
- Remove and replace scuba unit underwater
- hovering (30 seconds in midwater)
- Buddy breathing stationary, donor and receiver
- Buddy breathing while swimming, donor
- Mask removal, replacement and clearing
- Buddy breathing while swimming, receiver
- Alternate Air Source (AAS) ascent
- Free flow regulator
- Controlled Emergency Swimming Ascent (CESA)
- 15 meter no mask swim
- Air depletion
Other sessions that must be completed are a stress test, where you and your instructor/fellow student, will perform a full equipment exchange while buddy breathing, and a rescue assessment. To complete the confined water sessions a student must assist a PADI Instructor on an actual PADI dive course, during this session the instructor will have you help and assist with the students in a real life training situation.
Open Water Sessions
During the open water sessions of your Divemaster course, your instructor will have you focus on two main areas, firstly, assisting with students in the open water environment and supervising certified divers (dive guiding and dive briefings.) Throughout both of these sessions your instructor will be teaching you the best techniques to organize and run the dive boat, and the divers on it. Students must also complete a Divemaster conducted program such as a Scuba Review or Discover Local Diving.
By the end of the course Divemaster candidates must have logged a minimum of 60 dives.
Course Requirements
To enroll in the PADI Divemaster course, candidates must hold a rating of PADI Rescue Diver , or equivalent rating from another training agency and hold a valid First Aid certificate. Candidates must also have a minimum of 30 logged dives. Participants must also obtain a medical statement signed by a doctor. As with all other PADI courses, students must read and sign a liability release and waiver. Divemaster candidates are also required to purchase the Divemaster Manual for their course.
If you have any questions or queries about the course then please refer to our FAQ page. If you can not find the answer that you are looking for there, then please don’t hesitate to Contact Us and we will try and answer your questions as best we can.
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