Divemaster

Discover what it takes to earn a PADI Divemaster certification - PADI’s most popular professional - level rating. This program introduces you to the concepts, skills, and knowledge necessary to join the ranks of PADI Professionals worldwide.

What to expect

  • IMPORTANT

    In a word, like all leaders in diving, a Divemaster is someone who serves other divers.

    Missing masks, broken straps, lugging cylinders and reminding divers how to adjust BCD bands… These are the job.

    It is the ability to serve others by handling these kinds of tasks and more – cheerfully and enthusiastically – that makes someone a professional worthy of the title, PADI Divemaster.

    If you don’t have a heart for helping less experienced divers – helping them grow, solve problems, learn, be safe and have fun – please, ask yourself whether you should be in this course.

What’s inside

Part 1 e-Learning

Your independent study will include interacting with eLearning and watching the integrated PADI Divemaster Video clips, then completing the Knowledge Reviews. You should also watch the Divemaster Skills Videos.

There are other materials you’ll need to use and reference throughout your divemaster training and after certification as a PADI Professional. Some of these items you may already have from previous courses and some of them may be supplied in your PADI Divemaster Crew-pak. Make sure you have these or ask your instructor about obtaining them.

Part 2 Exam

When you’re ready, you’ll take the PADI Divemaster Exam, which covers the different study areas. You need to score 75 percent or higher for certification; if you earn less, you’ll take a makeup after you’ve had ample time to go over what you missed with your instructor and restudy the material.

 

Part 3 Water Skills

This section develops and evaluates your overall waterskills and improves your existing dive skills. The section includes timed swims, rescue evaluation and refining your basic scuba skills so that you can role model for beginning divers learning those skills.

Part 4

Practical Application

This portion consists of projects, workshops and applying what you’ve learned in real or simulated divemaster situations. These include creating an emergency assistance plan, completing a dive site map, and a search and recovery task.

You’ll also develop your abilities as a PADI Divemaster in training and nontraining situations, either working with actual students and divers under instructor supervision, or in simulated practice sessions in which you and other candidates role play as students and divers for each other.

Part 5 Completion

Cogratulations!

Upon completing all the requirements for certification, you’ll have earned the PADI Divemaster certification and become a member of PADI, the world’s largest and most respected organization of dive leaders and professionals.

Frequently asked questions

  • Medically evaluated and cleared for diving by a physician within the past 12 months.

  • Course prerequisites:

    • PADI Rescue Diver certification (or qualifying certification)

    • Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care training (or qualifying training) within 24 months

    • 40 logged dives

    • Medically evaluated and cleared for diving by a physician within the past 12 months

    Divers who are younger than 18 but at least 15 may enroll in the PADI Junior Divemaster program.

    Junior Divemaster is a sub-set of the PADI Divemaster course. Junior Divemaster candidates may complete a significant portion of the divemaster course, but additional training is required when the Junior Divemaster turns 18.

    Junior Divemaster program prerequisites:

    • PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and PADI Rescue Diver diver certifications

    • 20 logged dives

    • Medical clearance to dive

  • Minimum Age: 18

    Divers who are younger than 18 but at least 15 may enroll in the PADI Junior Divemaster program.

    Junior Divemaster is a sub-set of the PADI Divemaster course. Junior Divemaster candidates may complete a significant portion of the divemaster course, but additional training is required when the Junior Divemaster turns 18.

    Junior Divemaster program prerequisites:

    • PADI Advanced Open Water Diver and PADI Rescue Diver diver certifications

    • 20 logged dives

    • Medical clearance to dive

  • If you’re at least 18 years old and meet the prerequisites, it’s possible to become a PADI Divemaster in two very intense weeks. Most divemaster candidates complete their training over three weeks to six months.

  • To become a certified divemaster you need at least 60 logged dives. Only 40 dives are required to begin divemaster training. The number of dives you’ll make during the course varies.

  • PADI Divemasters can:

    • Assist certified PADI Instructors with training and non-training diving activities

    • Guide certified scuba divers on fun dives

    • Lead Discover Local Diving programs

    • Assist with Discover Scuba Diving programs

    • Conduct the PADI ReActivate scuba refresher program

    • Teach Discover Snorkeling and PADI Advanced Snorkeler courses

    • Organize and lead conservation activities

    • With additional training, divemasters can also work as equipment repair techs, deck hands, become boat captains and more. Read more about what divemasters can do.

    • Conduct the PADI ReActivate scuba refresher program

    • Teach Discover Snorkeling and PADI Advanced Snorkeler courses

    With additional training, PADI Divemasters can conduct Discover Scuba Diving (DSD) experiences in a pool or confined water. They may also lead divers who have successfully completed a DSD experience on guided dives after participants have made their first dive with an instructor. The DSD participants must be under an instructor’s indirect supervision and the maximum ratio of participants to PADI Professionals may not exceed 2:1. Any divemaster-supervised dives must take place within 14 days of the DSD experience.

    PADI Divemasters may also become qualified to teach:

    • The AWARE Specialist and Coral Reef Conservation conservation courses

    • Emergency First Response first aid and CPR courses

    • Emergency Oxygen Provider

    • Equipment Specialist

    • Emergency Oxygen Provider

    • Digital Underwater Photography

    • PADI Freediver™ courses

    • PADI Mermaid™ courses

    • PADI Distinctive Specialty courses without dives

€799

Divemaster

Education, Training and Certification

Included in the price:

12 Dives+e-Learning + digital & printed certificates

You can choose one of these locations for dives.

We can arrange another location if requested. Extra fees may apply.

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