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Divemaster
 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
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Instructor Guides for the programs that may be conducted by PADI
Divemasters.
NZ $2000
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