PADI Divemaster
The PADI Divemaster course teaches you to be a leader and take charge of dive activities. Through knowledge development sessions, waterskills 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
As a dive professional, you’ll want to have all your basic scuba equipment, including a dive computer, a dive knife, and at least two surface signaling devices. During practical skills exercises, like underwater mapping and search and recovery, you’ll use a compass, floats, marker buoys, lift bags and slates.
Pre- requisites:
- PADI Open Water, Advanced and Rescue certification, or equivalent from alternative agency
- Current first aid and CPR
- You will need a minimum of 40 dives to start this course
Inclusions:
- All diving during your internship
- Unlimited fun dives to build experience
- Air fills for your course dives, or use our tanks, if you don't have your own
- eLearning theory and final examination
- Divemaster Crew Pak
- Professional Mentoring during your course
- Optional (included) retail sales training
- Optional (included) task book sign off for Coxswains Hours
Budget for:
- Dive equipment other than tanks & weights
- We will encourage you to purchase equipment early in your internship, so you can familiarise with your own gear
- We often sell demo gear to our DM interns, which offers a significant savings
- PADI Membership & Insurance
- Mars bars for our Instructors 😉
- Treats for Ellie the Shop & Boat Dog
Ready to sign up? You can start any time! You'll become a part of our small dive centre family, one of the gang! Send us through an enquiry using the form below, or call us on (02) 6554 7478 to discuss!