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Diving |
Aquatic Adults |
SCUBA Professional
DIVEMASTER EXTRAORDINARE
Academic Topics & Skills hours
Role & Characteristics of a PADI Divemaster 1:30
Supervising General Diving Activities (2 Parts) 3:30
Assisting with Student Divers in Training 2:00
Dive Theory Introduction :30
Physics of Diving 3:00
Physiology of Diving 3:00
Dive Equipment 2:30
Decompression Theory & the RDP 6:00
Divemaster Conducted Programs 1:00
Risk Management :30
The Business of Diving :30
Your Diving Career :30
Administration and Exams 6:00
Confined Water Skills
Watermanship & Stamina 3:00
Skill Development 7:00
Rescue Techniques Evaluation 2:00
Problem Solving Exercise 1:00
Divemaster's Role in Confined Water Training 1:00
Skin Diver Skills 1:00
Open Water Skills
Underwater Mapping Project 4:00
Divemaster's Role in Continuing Education 1:00
Leading Certified Divers 10:00
Divemaster's Role in Open Water Training 6:00
Total clock hours 66:30
The DiveMaster course is a 10 day class during which qualified Rescue Divers learn the knowledge and skills necessary to make the transition from a recreational diver to the first professional membership level. Instructor level academic knowledge will be developed and tested. Opptional apprentiship program available to develop learned leadership.
Confined Water Training includes perfecting all standard open water skills which are improved to demonstration quality, rescue skills, equipment exchange (problem solving) and watermanship and stamina are evaluated.
Dives typically include: deep, wreck, drift,reef, navigation, underwater mapping, and dive leader exercises which will develop the candidates' skills in dive planning, leadership and proper response to common underwater problems.
Functioning as an instructional assistant is also covered in the pool and the ocean. Upon successful completion of the course, the student is certified as a Divemaster and qualifies for attendance to the Instructor Development Course (IDC) - leading to eventul certification as a Open Water Scuba Instructor.
Entry Requirements:
Rescue Diver
Emergency First Responder
Minimum of 20 logged dives
Diving Medical Examination
Minimum age:
18 yrs. for Career Candidates
Completion Requirements:
Proof of 60 logged dives, including night, deep and navigational dives
Certification:
PADI Divemaster Application Fee $70 - NOT Included
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