Take the first step in your dive career and become a PADI
Divemaster. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, you'll expand your
dive knowledge and hone your skills as you become a dive professional.
PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities by training
you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student
divers.
What can PADI Divemasters do?
- Work at local dive centers, on live-aboard dive boats, yachts and at
exotic resort locations
- Assist PADI Instructors with students
- Lead PADI Scuba Divers on guided dive tours
- Teach and certify PADI Skin Divers
- Teach PADI Discover Snorkeling programs
- Conduct PADI Scuba Review programs for certified divers
- Lead certified divers on Discover Local Diving experiences
- Teach Emergency First Response programs after successful completion
of an Emergency First Response Instructor course.
What do I need to start?
- PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or qualifying
certification from another training organization
- PADI Rescue Diver certification or qualifying
certification from another training organization.
- Medical clearance signed by a physician
- 20 logged dives
- 18 years old
What will I do?
- Learn dive leadership through classroom and independent study
sessions
- Complete water skills and stamina exercises in confined and open
water
- Training exercises to test organizational and problem solving
abilities
- An internship or series of practical training exercises
How long will it take?
What course materials are required?
The
following materials are required unless they are unavailable in a language
understood by the student diver.
- PADI Divemaster Manual*
- Recreational Dive Planner (RDP) – all three versions (Table, Wheel
and eRDP including associated Instructions for Use booklets)
- The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
- Diving Knowledge Workbook
- Divemaster Slates
- Instructor Guides for the programs that may be conducted by PADI
Divemasters. You may purchase these guides from your PADI Dive
Center/Resort or you may download PDF versions by clicking on the links
below.
* The PADI Divemaster video must also be viewed.
