• 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.

What can Divemasters do?
•Work at local dive centers, on live-aboard dive boats, yachts and at exotic resort locations
•Assist Instructors with students
•Lead Scuba Divers on guided dive tours
•Teach and certify Skin Divers
•Teach Discover Snorkeling programs
•Conduct 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?
•Advanced Open Water Diver or qualifying certification from another training organization
• 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?
•Two weeks - three months

What course materials are required?
The following materials are required unless they are unavailable in a language understood by the student diver.
• 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