PROFESSIONAL COURSES

Divemaster

The PADI Divemaster Program
During the PADI Divemaster course you will expand the problem solving skills which you developed in your PADI Rescue Diver course, and extend 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 judgement. 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. Judgement applies attitudes, experience, theoretical knowledge, deduction and intuition to problem solving and making decisions based on variables, sometimes under circumstances that are not "black and white."

Course Prerequisites
Be certified as a PADI Rescue Diver
Be at least 18 years of age
Physician approved Medical Statement (within last 12 months)
Logged at least 20 dives and have 60 logged dives prior to certification as a Divemaster ( night, deep, and u/w navigation experience).

Duties of a Certified PADI Divemaster include...
Able to independently guide Open Water Diver students on tour portion of open water training dives 2-4.
Conduct PADI Discover Local Diving programs.
Conduct PADI Discover Snorkeling programs.
Conduct PADI Scuba Review programs for certified Open Water Divers or above.
Accompany student divers during Advanced Open Water, Specialty Diver, or Rescue Diver courses.
Assist a Teaching status PADI Instructor in the confined water and open water training sessions of student divers.
Independently teach and certify PADI Skin Divers.
Teach and certify students in Emergency First Response (EFR) after completion of an EFR Instructor Training Course.
Generally supervise both training and nontraining-related activities by assisting divers and student divers in the planning, organizing, and direction of dives.

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