PADI Divemaster

Take the first step in your dive career and become a PADI Divemaster. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, you'll expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills as you become a dive professional. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities by training you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers.

£349

- What can PADI Divemasters do?

Work at local dive centres, on live-aboard dive boats, yachts and at exotic resort locations
Assist PADI Instructors with students
Lead PADI Scuba Divers on guided dive tours
Teach and certify PADI Skin Divers
Teach PADI Discover Snorkelling programs
Conduct PADI Scuba Review programs for certified divers
Lead certified divers on Discover Local Diving experiences
Teach Emergency First Response programs after successful completion of an Emergency First Response Instructor course.

- What will I do?

Learn dive leadership through classroom and independent study sessions
Complete water skills and stamina exercises in confined and open water
Training exercises to test organizational and problem solving abilities
An internship or series of practical training exercises.

- What course materials are required?

The following materials are required unless they are unavailable in a language understood by the student diver. The majority of these are usually provided for you when you book the course and are included in the course fees.

  • PADI Divemaster Manual (the PADI Divemaster video must also be viewed)
  • Recreational Dive Planner (RDP) – all three versions (Table, Wheel and eRDP-ML including associated Instructions for Use booklets)
  • The Encyclopaedia of Recreational Diving
  • Diving Knowledge Workbook
  • Divemaster Slates
  • Instructor Guides for the programs that may be conducted by PADI Divemasters: Discover Scuba Diving
    Discover Snorkelling/Skin Diver Course
    Scuba Review/Discover Local Diving


Contact Andy on andy@divenorthampton.co.uk to enrol or for further information.
- How long will it take?

We aim to complete this course by utilising the Internship method. As a result, it can tae anything from two to six months to complete. That being said, this method ensures that as a student, you get to spend time in the water with actual students in real life situations.

- What do I need to start?

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or qualifying certification from another training organization.

PADI Rescue Diver certification or qualifying certification from another training organization.

Medical clearance signed by a physician. As a Divemaster in the UK, this will probably take the form of a medical from an HSE certified Diving Doctor. This is something was can organise.

a minimum of 30 logged dives but as a general rule, you should have sufficient diving experience to be able to focus on the students and divers under you supervision.

Minimum age : 18 years old