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 PADI Divemaster Course
The first step on your professional path is your PADI Divemaster course. This programme is designed specifically to take your enthusiasm and love of diving and channel it into making you a dive leader.
Helping you understand your responsibilities, duties and value as a professional role model to other divers, and as a vital member of an instructional team. The course consists of three main components: knowledge development, water skills and practical application.
Your Divemaster course will provide you with comprehensive dive knowledge. Different aspects of being a dive master will be openly discussed and together we will talk about how and why, so you benefit from our experience and judgment and we can learn from your ideas and answer any questions you may have.
You will learn about diving physiology, equipment function and the effects of water pressure. Your general seafaring and diving knowledge will also be enhanced and developed to prepare you for any questions you may face from any curious diver or enquiring student.
We will show and guide you through all those skills you learned at entry level, so with practise and polish you will be able to perform your skills to students at demonstration quality, enabling them to learn by watching you.
You will also learn how to be an instructional assistant, an invaluable right hand to the Instructor and a respected mentor to student divers, acquiring the skills needed to guide, control, teach and assist on courses.
As a Divemaster you must also learn how to guide certified divers. Therefore your dive briefing and navigational skills will be developed as well as equipment, conduct and logistical skills.
Once qualified you will become a dive professional with leading dive training agency PADI, able to:
• Lead certified divers
• Be part of an instructional team, teaching students
• Teach your own Divemaster conducted programmes
• Receive PADI's publications The Undersea Journal and Surface Interval
• Access the PADI pro section on their website
• Become an Emergency First Response Instructor
And be one step closer to becoming an Open Water Scuba Instructor!!
14 day Divemaster courses can be enrolled on when these prerequisites are met:
• Be 18 years at the start of Divemaster training
• Be certified as a PADI Rescue diver or have a qualifying certification from another training organization
• Have medical clearance from a doctor stating fitness to dive, valid in the last 10 months
• Have logged at least 20 dives as recorded in your logbook (if you want to come fun diving with us,
we would be very happy to get your dive numbers up)
• Have proof of Primary (CPR) and Secondary (First Aid) care training, within the last 24 months
Required Materials:
• Divemaster Manual
• Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
• Diving Knowledge Workbook
• RDP Table and Wheel
EFR INSTRUCTOR Training Course (2 day)
Once you have achieved the first professional rating of Divemaster, you can then enrol on you EFRI training course. This enables you to schedule and conduct your own Emergency First Response courses and certify your own EFR students. Thus making you a more attractive member of a dive centre and instructional team.
The course will introduce you to PADI's teaching methodology, which you will be able to practise in supervised conditions. Then when have completed your EFRI, you will be certified to teach CPR Primary care and First Aid Secondary care, Care for Children, Oxygen Provider and Automated External Defibrillation.
The EFRI course is also commonly accepted as a ‘must have' for Diving Instructors, as PADI courses, such as Rescue and Divemaster, require divers to have completed a sanctioned course in CPR and First Aid. Being able to teach this will make you more marketable and you won't have to send your divers elsewhere to gain this qualification. You can also market this course extensively to non-divers.
The EFR instructor programme explains educational philosophy of hands-on group practise training, as well as the use of training aids and materials. You'll learn how to demonstrate CPR, as well as coaching techniques to help students gain confidence in their skills.
Prerequisites:
• Must be a renewed PADI Member (Instructor, Assistant Instructor, Divemaster) for the current year.
Required Materials:
• EFR Primary, Secondary Care and Care for Children Instructor Manual
• EFR participant manual
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