PADI Divemaster Internship
Cost $500 excluding materials (our price $200) and PADI Membership dues (roughly $75). Accommodation available from $200/month
We offer FREE EAN training with our divemaster course, you only pay the PADI fees!
This is the course that may well change your life as it did for me! Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers. It is a vital stepping stone along the path to instructor. Your Divemaster course should be one of the best times of your life. Not only because you are dong lots of diving in a beautiful tropical location ON the beach, but because of the awesome array of people you will have the opportunity to meet and work with. Whilst there are naturally serious aspects to the course there is a huge focus on FUN. Since most people dive for fun you need to develop skills that ensure the saftey of your divers without taking away the fun.
The Divemaster course is the first step in to the ranks of PADI Pros. This is the course that sets the foundation upon which you build a career. You will learn more on this course than any other. This course changes your dive experience and skills to those that are expected of a Pro. It also takes your knowledge to a professional level, through self study and mentoring from a PADI instructor. The better taught your divemaster course is, the more fruitful your diving career is likely to be. Take your time in deciding where to do your DM course its an important decision.
A PADI Divemaster has:
- Exemplary diving skills. The PADI Divemaster’s skills can be used as demonstrations for student divers.
- Rescue skill. The PADI Divemaster can prevent and manage accidents, and role model rescue skills for student divers in training.
- Professional-level knowledge of dive theory. Depth of theoretical knowledge goes hand-in-hand with expertise and professionalism. This is the foundation for problem solving and creativity in the divemaster’s
duties, and for subsequent growth
as a PADI Assistant Instructor.
- Competence as a certified assistant.
PADI Divemasters know how to support
instruction by handling logistical,
supervisory and limited educational
duties under an instructor’s
supervision.
- Dive management and supervision abilities. PADI Divemasters accept appropriate, limited responsibility for certified divers within the context of leading or managing diving activities. This requires good people skills and good judgment along with a strong working knowledge of dive environments and activities. The PADI divemaster assists the dive operation with risk management.
What does the Divemaster course involve?
The Philosophy of the DM course
The PADI Divemaster course expands the problem solving skills developed by the PADI Rescue Diver program, and extends it from accident management and prevention scenarios to supervisory situations with student divers and certified divers. At the divemaster level, problem solving emphasizes looking for many possible solutions under the circumstances and choosing the best of several. Divemaster problem solving may include more than safety-related issues, and include handling customer service, business and operational challenges. The course also addresses attitudes and judgment. Attitudes are emotional influences that shape individual choices ranging from professional behavior, role modeling, personal health and following safe diving practices, to very basic values, such as honesty. Judgment applies attitudes, experience, theoretical knowledge, deduction and intuition to problem solving and making decisions based on variables, sometimes under circumstances that aren’t “black or white.” During the course you will establish the knowledge and skills needed to make good choices, through completing the pratical (assiting experienced instructors in the water and classroom) and theoretical (Knowledge Reviews and exams) exercises. If you choose to do your course at a dive centre with the right culture you will also experience first hand, the attitudes that you should be developing to make a success of your diving career.
There is a definite shift in the relationship you will have with your instructor when you become a DMT. In classes leading up to the
PADI Divemaster course, you
probably have a “teacher”
relationship with your student
divers. With PADI Divemaster
candidates, however, you’re
likely to find a mentor relationship, you will be working with your instructors who will hopefully become life long friends that you stay in touch with long after you finish your course. As your instructor does their job with you as assistant, they will be explaining why they are making the decisions they are making, and the basis for their judgement. Sometimes the basis behind a decision is not clear until your instructor explains that their are operational reasons for making some decisions as well as the more obvious safety and student centred reasons. By taking you in to their confidence, your instructor is able to explain these operational considerations better prpeparing you to not just enjoy diving, but effectivel work in the industry. As your course progresses they will hand over more and more decision making to you, creating an almost seemless transision from DMT to DM.
What can a PADI Divemaster do?
In short a PADI Divemaster is qualified to supervise diving activities for divers who have already been certified, either PADI or another training organisation. A PADI DM is also qualified to assist a PADI instructor who is conducting trainig activities with varying levels of supervision depending upon the activity. There are also some training activities that a DM can conduct independantly. Below is a more detailed description of what a PADI DM may do, this is taken straight out of the instructor manual.
Certified and new/renewed PADI
Divemasters who are in Active
status are authorized to:
- Independently guide Open Water Diver/Scuba Diver students on the tour portion of Open Water Diver course Training Dives 2 through 4, at a ratio of two student divers per certified divemaster.
- Accompany Open Water Diver/Scuba Diver students under the
indirect supervision of a PADI
Instructor:
- during surface swims to and
from the entry/exit point.
- during the navigational exercises.
- with the group, either on the surface or underwater, while the instructor conducts a skill, such as an ascent, with an individual student diver or buddy team.
- Conduct any subsequent dives for Discover Scuba Diving participants, at a ratio of 2:1, if insured, after the participants have satisfactorily completed the first dive under the supervision of a PADI Instructor.
- during surface swims to and
from the entry/exit point.
- Conduct the PADI Discover Local Diving experience, (provided the divemaster meets insurance requirements).
- Conduct the PADI Discover Snorkeling program, (provided the divemaster meets insurance requirements).
- Conduct the PADI Scuba Review program for certified Open Water Divers, divers with higher certifications. or for PADI Scuba Divers who want only to refresh their skills (provided the divemaster meets insurance requirements).
- Accompany student divers during training dives for the PADI Adventures in Diving program, Specialty Diver courses, or the Rescue Diver course.
- Generally supervise both training and nontraining-related activities by assisting divers and student divers in the planning, organizing and direction of dives.
- Assist a Teaching status PADI Instructor in the open water training of divers. The allowable student diver-to-instructor ratio increases by four additional student divers for each certified, renewed PADI Divemaster for all PADI programs and courses, unless stated otherwise by that course/program’s standards. For the PADI Open Water Diver/Scuba Diver course, the allowable student diver-to-instructor ratio increases by two additional student divers for each certified, renewed PADI Divemaster, to a maximum of 12 student divers to one instructor.
- Assist a Teaching status PADI
Instructor in the confined water
training of divers. Use of
certified, renewed PADI Divemasters
increases the allowable
student diver-to-instructor ratio in confined water by four additional student divers per divemaster for all courses, unless stated otherwise by that course/program’s standards. - Teach and certify PADI Skin
Divers independently (provided
the divemaster meets
insurance requirements). This
includes conducting the PADI Seal
Team AquaMission: Skin Diver Specialist following Skin Diver course standards. - Conduct the skin diving skills segment of the Open Water Diver Course during either Confined Water Dive Two, Three, Four or Five (provided the divemaster meets insurance requirements).
- Teach Emergency First Response courses after successfully completing an Emergency First Response Instructor course.
- Independently conduct Discover Scuba Diving (2003 revised program) in a pool or in confined open water to a maximum depth of 6 metres/20 feet if qualified as a Discover Scuba Diving Leader. Qualification includes completing an internship that consists of conducting four separate Discover Scuba Diving pool or confined water experiences under the direct supervision and guidance of a PADI Instructor. (See Discover Scuba Diving Leader Internship completion Form in Appendix.)
- Teach the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer specialty course under the direction of a PADI Instructor after earning the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty Instructor rating (provided the divemaster meets insurance requirements). (See General Standards and Procedures – Specialty Instructor requirements.