You will start your course assisting Divemasters and Instructors withtheir day-to-day duties. Through immersion, you will learn the daily routine and what it takes to prepare a dive trip each day. In this phase, you’ll learn about dive sites and how to read water conditions, practice your navigational skills and study the theory in your Divemaster manual. You will also begin practicing your ‘skillcircuit’ with other divemaster candidates, learning how to properly demonstrate skills to beginner divers.
Throughout your training, although you’ll learn from all instructors, you will have one mentor to help guide you throughout. Tag along on different courses until you are ready to actively assist on courses and helpteach with with an Instructor. These assists are crucial, as they arethe first step in preparing you how to teach divemaster led workshops such as scuba reviews. Surface intervals will be filled with practising dive & boat briefings, developing an emergency action plan and beginning to map a dive site. We will also help you perfect your rescue skills and fill in any gaps in your dive theoryknowledge.
Towards the end of your course, you’ll be the star of your own course. Now it’s up to you to be in charge of organising a dive trip. Prepare the dive equipment and boat roster, give briefings and guide certified divers – all under the watchful eyes of your mentor. A“stress test” (technically known as the equipment exchange) willmark your last in-water exam before you become a real PADI Divemaster. Finally, your course will conclude with the legendarySnorkel Test. But that’s a story for later on in your training…