Silent Immersion

Padi - Divemaster

As the entry to professional levels in diver training, the Padi Divemaster course plays a pivotal role within the Padi System of diver education. Those who join the Padi Divemaster ranks assist you and other instructors with training student divers. They supervise diving activities for certified divers, snorkelers and skin divers. Obviously, these entry-level professionals can strongly influence the safety and fun divers enjoy during training and diving. At the same time, many Padi Divemasters are looking ahead, gaining professional experience they will apply as Padi Assistant Instructors and Open Water Scuba Instructors. In conducting the Padi Divemaster course, you’re training today’s certified assistants and laying the foundation for many of tomorrow’s instructors.

Prerequisites
To qualify to enter the Padi Divemaster course, an individual must:

1. Be certified as a Padi Advanced Open Water Diver or have a qualifying certification from another training organization. A qualifying certification is defined as proof of certification beyond entry level, and proof of 20 or more logged dives documenting experience in deep diving and under water navigation.
2. Be certified as a Padi Rescue Diver or have a qualifying certification from another training organization. A qualifying certification is defined as proof of certification in diving rescue from a training organization other than Padi.
3. Have completed and logged at least 20 dives as documented by the individual’s personal log
book.
4. Be at least 18 years old at the start of Padi Divemaster training.
5. Submit, to the instructor, medical clearance for diving signed by a physician, attesting to fitness to dive. The medical clearance must be current within the previous 12 months. The physician signing the form cannot be the individual.
6. Submit proof of Emergency First Response Primar y Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) training (or other qualifying CPR/first aid training) within the last 24 months.
7. Sign the Certified Diver Experience Programs Liability Release
8. Assumption of Risk form, and the Padi Medical Statement.