How long does the PADI Divemaster course take?

The course usually takes 2 weeks depending on experience and availability, including practical dive leadership training.

Do I need previous certifications?

Yes, you must be a certified Rescue Diver and have a valid CPR/First Aid certification to enroll + 60 dives.

What will I learn as a Divemaster?

You’ll learn dive supervision, assisting instructors, planning and leading dives, and customer service skills for professional diving.

DIVEMASTER

CANCUN SCUBA COURSES
DIVEMASTER | TRAINING & POOL
WORK PRACTICE | OCEAN DIVES

Your diving career starts here: Become a Divemaster with Scuba Total

Do you have a deep passion and love for diving?

Become a Divemaster, you align yourself with the largest and most respected dive tribe in the world of Diving Professionals, sharing a passion for diving and an active concern for the health of the world’s underwater habitats. Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational scuba diving begins with the Divemaster program.

Training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers. Divemaster is the prerequisite certification for both the PADI Assistant Instructor and Open Water Scuba Instructor certifications.

What you will learn as a Divemaster candidate

Dive leadership skills through both classroom and independent study. You complete water skills, stamina exercises, training exercises that stretch your ability to organize and solve problems as well as help others improve their scuba. You put this knowledge into action through a structured internship or series of practical training exercises. As you progress through your Divemaster course, you’ll expand your diving knowledge, and increase your confidence. Then, as a Divemaster, you’ll use these attributes to lead, mentor and motivate other divers and experience the joy of seeing them transformed by the majesty of the the acquatic realm.

What you can do as Divemaster

● Supervise both training and non training related activities by planning, organizing and directing dives

● Assist an Instructor during the training sessions for any PADI Diver course

● Conduct the Skin Diver course and PADI Discover Snorkeling program

● Conduct the Discover Local Diving experience

● Conduct the Scuba Review program

● If qualified as a Discover Scuba Diving Leader, independently conduct the Discover Scuba Diving program.

● Earn the Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty Instructor rating to be able to teach the Digital UW Photo Course

● Independently guide Open Water Diver course students on the tour portion of Open Water Diver course Training Dives 2, 3 and 4 at a ratio of two student divers per certified divemaster.

● Accompany Open Water Diver students under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor during: ○ surface swims to and from the entry/exit point and during navigational exercises ○ when the instructor conducts a skill, such as an ascent or descent, a Divemaster can remain with other student divers (with an individual student or buddy team)

● Accompany student divers during Adventure Dives or Specialty training dives under the indirect supervision of an Instructor.

● Conduct subsequent dives under an instructor’s indirect supervision for Discover Scuba Diving participants after participants have satisfactorily completed the first dive with a PADI Instructor.

Make the Ocean your office: Requisites and Materials for a Divemaster course in Cancun

The Scuba Gear

● You use all the basic scuba equipment and some scuba accessories such as a dive slate, dive knife, compass, dive watch, etc.

● It is highly recommended that you have all of your own scuba equipment, as familiarity with personal gear improves general scuba diving skills.

The Learning Materials

● Divemaster Manual Book or E- Learning

● Divemaster slates

● Instructor Manual

● The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving

● Scuba Tuneup Guidebook

● Professional Log

● DSD Cue Cards

● Divemaster Application package There are other required materials that a Divemaster Candidate will need but may have received them during other dive programs so they have not been included in the Divemaster CrewPak. Please ask Scuba Total Cancun for the full list of required materials that you will need for the professional diver

Prerequisites

● 18 years old

● Be a Rescue Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization)

● An Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care (or qualifying first aid and CPR training from another organization) course completion within the past 24 months.

● Have at least 40 dives to begin the course and 60 for certification

● Be fit for diving and submit a Medical Statement (PDF) signed by a physician within the last 12 months.