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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 PADI Divemaster, you align yourself with the largest and most respected dive tribe in the world of PADI 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 PADI Divemaster program.

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

 

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

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

● Conduct the PADI Skin Diver course and PADI Discover Snorkeling program

● Conduct the PADI Discover Local Diving experience

● Conduct the PADI Scuba Review program

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

● Earn the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty Instructor rating to be able to teach the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer specialty.

● 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 a PADI 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.

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The Learning Materials

● PADI Divemaster Manual Book or E- Learning

● Divemaster slates

● PADI Instructor Manual

● The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving 

● Scuba Tune­up Guidebook

● PADI Professional Log

● DSD Cue Cards

● PADI Divemaster Application package There are other required materials that a Divemaster Candidate will need but may have received them during other PADI 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

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 Prerequisites

● 18 years old

● A PADI 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.

PRICE 1180 USD
 

Rates are shown in U.S. Dollars  

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A Scuba Total Dive Master trainee practices buoyancy control with two beginner divers during their P
A Scuba Total Divemaster trainee supervises two beginner divers practicing skills in a pool during t
Scuba Total Divemaster assists a group of divers preparing for their next dive in Cancun during the
Group of enthusiastic new PADI Divemasters celebrate their certification with Scuba Total in Cancun.
Future PADI Divemaster student honing skills on a dive boat in Cancun
PADI Divemaster student joking with a MUSA statue , time to relax
Scuba Total instructor celebrates with a happy new PADI Divemaster on a boat in Cancun
Scuba Total Dive Master assists PADI instructor with a group of new divers during a training session
Smiling Scuba Total Divemaster enjoying the underwater world of Cancun.
Scuba Total instructor guides a new diver and Divemaster trainee on a practice dive in Cancun.
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