Do your Divemaster with Happy Divers
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 program. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, in this program you 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 becoming a PADI Instructor.
What do you need to start?
To take this course, you must be:
• A PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent
• A PADI Rescue Diver or equivalent
• An Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care course completion (or equivalent)
within the past 24 month
• Have at least 40 dives to begin the course and 60 for certification
• At least 18 years old
• Have a medical form by your physician within the last 12 months
What will you do during your Divemaster course?
During the PADI Divemaster program, you learn dive leadership skills through both classroom and independent study. You complete water skills and stamina exercises, as well as training exercises that stretch your ability to organize and solve problems as well as help others to improve their scuba skills.
You put this knowledge into action through a structured internship or series of practical training exercises.
What can you do after the Divemaster course?
After becoming certified as a PADI Divemaster you will be authorized to:
• Supervise both training and non-training-related activities by planning, organizing 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 program
• Conduct the PADI Discover Local Diving experience
• Conduct the PADI Scuba Review program
• If qualified as a Discover Scuba Diving Leader, independently conduct the PADI Discover Scuba
Diving program.
• Independently guide Open Water Diver course students on the tour portion of Open Water Diver
course
• 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 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.