HOMEGoals and Purpose of the PADI Divemaster Course

 

As the entry to professional levels in diver training, the PADI Divemaster course plays a pivotal role within the PADI System of diver education. Those who join the PADI Divemaster ranks assist instructors with training student divers. They supervise diving activities for certified divers, snorkelers and skin divers. Obviously, these entry-level professionals can strongly influence the safety and fun divers enjoy during training and diving. At the same time, many PADI Divemasters are looking ahead, gaining professional experience they will apply as PADI Assistant Instructors and Open Water Scuba Instructors.

The PADI Divemaster course expands the problem solving skills developed by the PADI Rescue Diver program, and extends it from accident management and prevention scenarios to supervisory situations with student divers and certified divers. At the divemaster level, problem solving emphasizes looking for many possible solutions under the circumstances and choosing the best of several. Divemaster problem solving may include more than safety-related issues, and include handling customer service, business and operational challenges. The course also addresses attitudes and judgment. Attitudes are emotional influences that shape individual choices ranging from professional behavior, role modeling, personal health and following safe diving practices, to very basic values, such as honesty. Judgment applies attitudes, experience, theoretical knowledge, deduction and intuition to problem solving and making decisions based on variables, sometimes under circumstances that aren’t “black or white.”

Course Prerequisites:

To qualify to enter the PADI Divemaster course, an individual must:

    1. Be certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or have an equivalent rating. “Equivalent” is defined as proof of certification beyond entry level, and proof of 20 or more logged dives documenting experience in deep diving and underwater navigation.
    2. Be certified as a PADI Rescue Diver or have an equivalent rating. “Equivalent” is defined as proof of certification in diving rescue from a training organization other than PADI. If the candidate enters with an equivalent certification, then the candidate must submit proof of CPR and first aid training within the past 24 months. If a candidate with an equivalent certification demonstrates poor or inadequate performance during the diver rescue assessment, then the candidate must complete a PADI Rescue Diver course.
    3. Have completed and logged at least 20 dives as documented by the individual’s personal log book. Note: Proof of 60 dives showing experience in night diving, deep diving and underwater navigation is a certification requirement.
    4. Be at least 18 years old at the start of PADI Divemaster training.
    5. Submit, to the instructor, medical clearance for diving signed by a physician, attesting to fitness to dive. The medical clearance must be current within the previous 12 months. The physician signing the form cannot be the individual.

 

COURSE OVERVIEW & COST

Overview:

    1. 12 Academic Modules comprising self-study and final exam.
        1. The Role and Characteristics of a PADI Divemaster
        2. Supervising General Diving Activities for Certified Divers
        3. Assisting with Student Divers in Training
        4. Dive Theory Introduction
        5. The Physics of Diving
        6. The Physiology of Diving
        7. Dive Equipment
        8. Decompression Theory and the RDP
        9. Divemaster Conducted Programs
        10. Risk Management
        11. The Business of Diving
        12. Your Diving Career

         

    2. 4 Stamina Assessment & Development Modules
        1. Stamina Exercise 1: 400 Metre/Yard Swim
        2. Stamina Exercise 2: 15 Minute Tread
        3. Stamina Exercise 3: 800 Metre/Yard Snorkel Swim
        4. Stamina Exercise 4: 100 Metres/Yard Inert Diver Tow

         

    3. Diver Rescue Assessment and Development

         

    4. Confined Waterskill Assessment and Development

         

    5. Required Training Exercises
        1. Mapping Project
        2. Equipment Exchange
        3. Divemaster Conducted Program

         

    6. Practical Application
        1. Option 1: Internship
        2. Option 2: Practical Training Exercises

COST: £300.00

(Please note: Cost does NOT include materials - these will cost approximately £100.00 depending on what materials the student may already possess).

 

 

 

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