It's More Than Just A Job

As a PADI Divemaster, you will strengthen your dive skills and knowledge base, learning from peers at many dive locations around the world.

As a PADI Divemaster, you have the opportunity to work in various locations around the world, including dive resorts, liveaboards, private yachts ,and cruise ships. The role of a PADI Divemaster is a varied one; meeting and greeting customers, socialising and entertaining, organising and supervising diving activities, assisting instructors, conducting some programmes independently, filling cylinders, maybe even helping in the dive shop. A big part of being a PADI Divemaster is leading others on underwater adventures. It is a lifestyle like no other. It is totally unrivalled and you get paid for doing what you love!

PADI Divemasters are role models, mentoring and motivating divers everywhere. Seeing the expressions of divers while experiencing the underwater world is something you will not forget.

You can participate in Marine Conservation Projects, a great way to get an insider’s view into the issues facing marine ecosystems. As a PADI Divemaster, you can choose to get up close and dive with marine animals or conduct research on the underwater environment. Either way, this experience is sure to be life-changing.

Be a leader who mentors and motivates others. Gain dive knowledge, supervision abilities, and become a role model to divers around the world.

Share your passion for scuba diving by becoming a PADI Divemaster. As a divemaster you'll supervise scuba diving activities and assist with scuba classes. PADI Divemaster is the first step in your diving career.

Learn how to lead underwater tours, assist with scuba classes and inspire others to care about the ocean. Hone your skills and be the diver everyone admires.

PADI Divemaster is the most popular and most recognized professional scuba certification in the world. PADI Divemasters enjoy abundant career opportunities, get paid to scuba dive and share their love for the ocean.

The PADI Divemaster course teaches you to be a leader and take charge of dive activities. Through knowledge development sessions, waterskills exercises and workshops, and hands-on practical assessment, you develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of scuba diving activities. Topics and practical workshops include:

• The role and characteristics of the PADI Divemaster
• Supervising dive activities and assisting with student divers
• Diver safety and risk management
• Divemaster conducted programs and specialized skills
• Business of diving and your career
• Awareness of the dive environment
• Dive setup and management
• Mapping an open water site
• Conducting dive briefings
• Organizing a search and recovery project and a deep dive
• Conducting a scuba review and skin diver course
• Assisting with Discover Scuba Diving and leading Discover Local Diving programs

Age Requirement

18 years or older

Course Prerequisites

Rescue Diver, 40 logged dives, CPR and First Aid certification within 24 months, medical clearance to dive

Time Commitment

Approximately 50 hours

As a dive professional, you'll want to have all your basic scuba equipment, including a dive computer, a dive knife, and at least two surface signaling devices. During practical skills exercises, like underwater mapping and search and recovery, you'll use a compass, floats, marker buoys, lift bags and slates. Your PADI Instructor may suggest additional gear that will be useful throughout your diving career.

The Divemaster course will be conducted evening and weekends during the year. 

Dive gear can be made available for those who need it

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