padi dive master:

Want to make scuba diving a part time or full time career ? Enter into a new dimension of diving by becoming a PADI Divemaster by doing the Divemaster course through Into The Blue Diving in Cape Town.

Divemaster is the first professional level in Scuba Diving. If you love scuba diving, becoming a divemaster will take your diving to a whole new level. With your PADI Divemaster certification, you can make scuba diving a part time or full time career. This is where the beach becomes your office. Surround yourself with sunshine, adventure and vibrant people, and do what you love for a living: go diving!

PADI is the most widely recognised diving certification in the world and becoming a PADI Divemaster is a great idea if you're into traveling. Thailand, Mozambique, Tanzania, the Caribbean, Mexico, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the Mediterranean... add all these stamps to your passport as you work as a PADI Divemaster in some of the most exotic places on earth. If you're still not satisfied, jump on a yacht or a cruiseliner, doing what you love to do – diving!

Well trained and competent divemasters are essential to any diving operation. Therefore it is important that you choose your trainers and mentors carefully - to ensure that you get the best quality and training that you can. Into The Blue Diving Cape Town  works in conjunction with
a 5 star National Geographic Career Development centre, so you can be sure that you will receive
the best education. During your Divemaster course with us, you can also work as an intern which will ensure that you are well prepared for any diving situation through real life experience once you start working.

info Duration : This course can be completed at your own pace. Depending on your schedule and the season, it can span over a few weeks or even up to a year. We try to train you with a maximum amount of different diving courses – to ensure you get a wide variety of experience as a divemaster. Expect the course to last a minimum of 120 hours. Course consists of : Knowledge development Water skills and stamina Practical application. Prerequisites: Minimum age : 18 PADI Rescue Diver Certification or an equivalent certification from another training organisation. 20 Logged dives to start, 60 logged dives by completion. Valid First Aid certification within the last 2 years. Medical clearance

cost Cost : R4700 excluding registration (Registration around £50) Included : Rental of all scuba diving equipment, diving course tuition, PADI Divemaster Crewpack including PADI Encyclopedia of diving, PADI knowledge workbook, PADI Divemaster slates, air fills.

What can a divemaster do ?

• Lead certified divers on underwater tours
• Assist in the instruction of scuba diving courses
• Conduct PADI Discover Scuba Courses (After doing DSD leader)
• Lead discover local diving orientations
• Work with dive centres, at holiday resorts, cruise ships, yachts.
• Teach and certify PADI Skin Divers

a basic outline of the divemaster course:

Knowledge development

• The role and characteristics of a PADI Divemaster
• Supervising diving activities for certified divers
• Assisting with student divers in training
• Dive theory introduction
• Physics
• Physiology
• Diving Equipment
• Decompression theory and dive tables
• Divemaster conducted programs
• Risk management
• Business of diving
• Furthering your diving career

Water skills and stamina

Water skills

• 20 basic water skills that the student needs to be able to execute to a high standard by the end of the course
• Successful execution of a simulated rescue scenario of a unresponsive non-breathing diver
• Performing a skill demonstration quality

Stamina

• 400m timed swim without stopping
• 15 minute water tread of which the last two minutes with hands out of the water
• 800m timed snorkel swim
• 100m timed tired diver tow

Practical application

During your time as a divemaster trainee, you will be putting into practice the skills of a typical divemaster. These include:

• 3 Training Exercises
• Map Making
• Underwater problem solving
• A divemaster conducted program

In this part of the course you develop your divemaster skills with training students, under the close supervision of a PADI Instructor.

After you have completed your PADI Divemaster Course, there is a registration fee to be paid to PADI, of about £50.