What is a PADI Divemaster?

The PADI Divemaster course is your first level of professional training. Working closely with your PADI Instructor, you’ll fine-tune your dive skills, while gaining dive knowledge, management, and supervision abilities  becoming a role model to divers you lead and mentor everywhere.

As a PADI Divemaster, you’ll lead others as you supervise scuba diving activities and assist with diver training. Whether working at a faraway destination or close to home, the adventure of a lifetime awaits you.

PADI Divemasters are respected dive professionals who are aligned with the largest and most respected dive organization in the world- PADI.

What will you learn?

The PADI Divemaster course teaches you to be a leader and take charge of dive activities. Through mentor lead knowledge development sessions, water skills exercises, workshops, and hands-on practical assessment, you develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of scuba diving activities. Topics and practical workshops include:

•     The role and characteristics of the PADI Divemaster
•     Supervising dive activities and assisting with student divers
•     Diver safety and risk management
•     Divemaster conducted programs and specialized skills
•     Business of diving and your career
•     Awareness of the dive environment
•     Dive setup and management
•     Mapping an open water site
•     Conducting dive briefings
•     Organizing a search and recovery project and a deep dive
•     Conducting a scuba review and skin diver course
•     Assisting with Discover Scuba Diving and leading Discover Local Diving programs

How can you start learning now?

Sign up for Divemaster Online – PADI’s eLearning option – to start now. You can work through eight knowledge development sections using a web-based system that lets you learn at your own pace. You also have access to an online version of the Divemaster Manual for reference during and after the course, this manual will be continually updated with current changes and standards.

Another option is to study by reading the Divemaster Manual and watching the Divemaster Video (a book and DVD package). Visit Adventure Scuba to enroll in the course and get your Divemaster Crew-Pak, which also includes other reference materials – like the PADI Instructor Manual and The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving – that you’ll need during the course.

Consider taking Dive Theory Online, another PADI eLearning® program, that takes you step-by-step through dive physics, physiology, skills, equipment and environment, plus a Recreational Dive Planner (RDP) review. By successfully completing Dive Theory Online, you can get credit for half of the Divemaster Final Exam. Your PADI Instructor can explain how this works when you meet to schedule knowledge review sessions along with your waterskills exercises, workshops and practical assessments.