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.
