PADI Divemaster
Ready for a challenge? Ready for a Life Changing Experiences? A Diving Career, The Padi Divemaster Training!
Then look no further! Choosing a divemaster program, the PADI Divemasters program is the first run on the leadership ladder in the PADI System of Professional Diver Education Internship Cyprus.
New Padi Elearning 2010 – Online Option
For The PADI DIVEMASTERS
Candidates that are already certified PADI Divemaster, before attending our PADI Instructor Development Course. There have been changes to the PADI curriculum, that from January 2010, you can:
Study and pre-assess your dive theory online with the eLearner option. Study 9 of the course presentations online which can be used to save time from the course and start 3 days later rather than our PADI Course Directors Live delivery lectures’.
There is an additional charge for this each of these PADI e learning options, that deliver convenience and value enhancement to the IDC, and this is fee is paid to PADI directly. Please contact us or Click our Elearning for more information to register.
This rating denotes you as a person who:
- Has a high level of personal diving skill.
- Has instructor level knowledge of diving theory.
- Has had significant training in how to assist an instructor during training activities.
- Is able to assume appropriate responsibilities that benefit the welfare of other divers.
In other words, you’re the cream of the crop and we want you!
As you may know, many PADI professional master divers go on to become PADI Instructors.
So, the training and experience you gain through the PADI Divemaster program helps shape your abilities and attitude toward becoming a professional level diving educator.
To help shape you into a Dive Professional, PADI has developed the PADI Divemaster Crew-Pak and various other material.
As a PADI Divemaster, you’ll be qualified to:
- Act as certified instructional assistant to PADI Instructors.
- Supervise participants in PADI experience programs for uncertified divers.
- Generally supervise both training and no training related diving activities by planning, organizing and directing dives.
- Teach and certify PADI Skin Divers
- Conduct the PADI Scuba Review program for certified divers.
- Conduct and Lead Discover Scuba Diving and after successful completion of DSD Leardership Traianing.
- Guide Snorkelling programs after successful completion of DSD Leadership Training.
- Conduct the PADI Seal Team Skin Diver Specialist AquaMission
- Lead certified divers on Discover Local Diving experiences
- Teach Emergency First Response programs after successful completion of an Emergency First Response Instructor course.
- Conduct the Skin Diving Skills segment of the PADI Open Water Diver course confined Water Diver four under the direction of a PADI Instructor.
- Enroll in PADI Instructor level training
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
To qualify for PADI Divemaster training, you’ll need to:
- Be certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or hold a qualifying certification from another training organization.
- Be certified as a PADI Rescue Diver or hold a qualifying certification from another training organization.
- Have logged a minimum of 20 open water dives prior to entry into PADI Divemaster training, and completed and logged a minimum of 60 open water dives with experience in deep and navigation prior to certification as a PADI Divemaster.
Be at least 18 years old. - Be in good physical condition for diving and submit a medical exam signed by a physician prior to any in-water activities.
- At the time of certification, have current training in CPR. (Current means that the CPR training has not expired as defined by the CPR training organization.)
- At the time of certification, have current training in First Aid.
(If the candidate does not hold a PADI Rescue Diver certification, he must have first aid training that has not expired as defined by the first aid training organization.)
You’ll complete three phases in the PADI Divemaster program:
1. Watermanship and skills assessment
- Watermanship and stamina
- General diving skills
2. Knowledge Development
- Diving physics
- Diving physiology
- Diving skills and environment
- Supervising students in training
- Dive management and control
- Dive planning
- Emergency assistance plan for Diving emergencies in the local area
- Mapping a local open water site
3. Practical Application
This involves training activities using various structured training sessions, simulated scenarios and internship sessions with actual PADI programs.
These training sessions enable you to gain practical experience as an instructional assistant and a supervisor of open water diving activities, both as a coordinator and as an underwater guide.
Upon successfully completing the PADI Divemaster program or Divemasters Internships Program, you’ll receive a certification card and wall certificate denoting this rating.
You’ll also become a member of PADI and receive benefits, including the ability to purchase professional liability insurance (which may be required to conduct some activities).
PADI Divemaster crewpak 2010
Padi Divemasters for 2010 will have to own a copy of the instructor manual along with the new Open Water diver course Instructor Guide.Padi’s new (streamlined) instructor manual in 2010.
The new manual is part of the revised PADI Divemaster Crew Pack see chart below with a list of what’s in the revised PADI Divemaster crewpak (available in English only for now).

2010 divemaster crew pack. Here's your chance to share your love of diving with others change your career today!
Includes everything needed to start your Divemaster Course
INCLUDES:
- Instructor manual (Compulsory From July 2010)
- Carrying bag
- Encyclopaedia of Recreational Diving
- Discover Scuba cue card
- Diving Knowledge workbook
- Divemaster led programs on a CD
- Textbook
- Training Slates
- Student Application Package
- Divemaster Emblem
- Transparent PADI Decal( Needed For DM Application)
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