PADI Divemaster Course

The knowledge development section of the PADI Divemaster course is now digital with Dive Theory Online PADI eLearning.where you will read the chapters and answer the knowledge reviews. Your PADI Instructor will go through these with you and fill in any gaps in knowledge. You will also study the PADI Encyclopaedia of Recreational Diving for the remainder of your dive theory before completing a final exam. During your studies, your PADI Instructor will be happy to explain anything you are finding hard to understand and make sure you know it.

Study Topics Include

• Physics
• Physiology
• Decompression Theory
• Equipment
• Divemaster Conducted Programs
• Supervising Certified Divers
• Assisting with Student Divers in Training
• Dive Skills & The Environment

A major part of the PADI Divemaster course is developing exemplary dive skills. These include the dive skills from the core PADI Open Water Diver course, PADI Advanced Open Water Diver course and the PADI Rescue Diver course. There are also other dive skills required to be a PADI Divemaster including search and recovery diving and deep diving. You will be able to practice your dive skills under instructor supervision, to get them towards demonstration quality before undergoing a full evaluation of the 24 basic dive skills.

It is not just to skills from the PADI courses where your abilities will grow. You will also:

• Dramatically improve your own diving skills and air consumption.
  • Better buoyancy
  • Better movement in water
  • Better navigation. You will be the leader rather than always following a guide
  • Better air consumption
  • Learn to read currents and understand tide tables and tides
• Experience a range of diving conditions

One of the major roles of a PADI Divemaster is to act as an assistant to a PADI Instructor during PADI diver training. This can consist of many roles including control, demonstration assistance, course logistic preparation, dive guiding, equipment troubleshooting and more. During the PADI Divemaster course you will be frequently working assisting Ocean Tribe PADI Instructors during real PADI dive courses (if there is not a required course happening at that time then simulations will substitute).

As a PADI Divemaster trainee you become a working part of the dive centre crew. On your PADI Divemaster course you will work as a PADI Divemaster in all the roles that a Divemaster might fulfill. These can include but are not limited to:

• Dive and boat briefings
• Accounting for Divers
• Customer welcome in the morning
• Assisting with equipment setup
• Managing dive boat roster
• Leading divers underwater
• Assisting with dive centre logistics
• Assisting with student divers in training
• Equipment maintenance

We will actually give you genuine dive centre work experience as part of your PADI Divemaster course so that you are well equipped when you go out to work following graduation as a PADI Divemaster. You will also be required to prepare an Emergency Action Plan for a dive site and also do a mapping project of a dive site.

During your PADI Divemaster course you will also be required to give demonstrations to your PADI Instructor that you are able to runn the PADI Divemaster conducted programs. These are PADI programs that PADI Divemasters are able to run and teach independently of a PADI Instructor. These include:

• Discover Local Diving
• PADI Discover Snorkeling
• PADI Discover Scuba Diving (Confined Water)
• PADI Skin Diver

Watermanship evaluations are required as part of the PADI Divemaster course, to ensure you are able to maintain yourself well in the aquatic environment. The swim evaluations are timed and consist of:

• 400m swim
• 800m Mask, Fins and Snorkel Swim
• 100m Tired Diver Tow
• 15 minute tread/float

In addition to those swims there is also a team building exercise where you will perform a scuba equipment exchange with another diver underwater, whilst buddy breathing.