Itinerary
In order become a Divemaster you have to go through various stages. The following is an estimate of the time spent on each you need to go through to become a Divemaster. If you are already a qualified diver you can skip the courses you have already done.
Open Water Qualifications
Open Water course. Duration: 5 days
The Open Water Course consists of confined water training in our pool, scuba dive theory, and four open water dives at world class dive sites located around the Gilis. We have a huge variety of marine life in the area, and over the course of your four dives, you have a good chance of seeing big stuff like sharks and turtles, as well as some fascinating smaller stuff like octopus, cuttlefish, lionfish and scorpionfish.
Advanced Adventurer
The Advanced Adventurer course is designed to build on the knowledge you acquired in your Open Water course, give you new and exciting underwater experiences, and fine tune your diving skills. The course consists of five dives. Two of the dives are compulsory (the deep and navigation dives) and the other three you may choose from a variety of options, the most popular being: night dive, naturalist dive, nitrox dive, computer dive, peak performance buoyancy or photography dive. There are no quizzes, exams or videos on the advanced course – it’s all about diving.
For each dive you receive an extended briefing and debrief from your instructor regarding your chosen option. Upon completion of this course you will be certified to dive to 30m.
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Open Water 5 days,
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5 nights
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Day 1Arrive at 11am and Course Orientation at 5pm
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Day 2; Theory / Pool
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Day 3; Theory / Pool
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Day 4; 2 x OW Dives
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Day 5; 2 x OW Dives
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Advanced Adventurer
3 days, 3 nights
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Day 1; Arrive at 11am, pool refresher session and 1 x dive
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Day 2; 2 dives
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Day 3; 2 dives
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Rescue and EFR
The Rescue Diver course is taught together with the Emergency First Response (EFR) Course. The EFR course is a short course that combines CPR and First Aid into a single course and teaches you the same internationally recognized emergency protocols used by paramedics and doctors worldwide, while recognizing that you are a lay person and keeping it simple.
The Rescue Diver course is designed to build on your skills as a diver and your newly acquired Respond Right skills by exposing you to hypothetical emergency situations in a diving environment. You will learn to refine and further develop your accident prevention and handling skills, as well as learning to manage a diving emergency if you're ever faced with one. The course consists of theory work, videos and practical application while diving. You will learn a variety of rescue techniques so that you will be prepared to face a multitude of diving emergency situations, from assisting panicked divers both above and below the surface, to handling unconscious divers underwater and orchestrating missing diver searches. The rescue course is a practical and fun course, and moves your diving skills on from focusing on your own diving to being more aware of others in the water.
By the end of the course you’ll feel confident that you have the skills to deal with situations if they should arise in a diving environment, which adds to your enjoyment and expertise as a diver, and is the perfect step up to the Divemaster level.
Divemaster study and practical (internship)
Week 3
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Week 4
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Week 5
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Week 6
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Knowledge reviews chapters 1-4
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Rescue assessment
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Skill circuit
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Swim test
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Now you can begin assisting with students!
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Knowledge reviews chapters 5-9
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Assist on courses
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Pick a site and start ‘mapping project’
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Leader stress and rescue discussion
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Skill circuit
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Swim test
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Knowledge reviews chapters 10-12
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Assist on courses
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Emergency assistance plan
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Continue working on mapping project
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Prepare and present classroom presentation to your classmates
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Skill circuit
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Complete swim tests
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Final theory exams
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Final assists
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Complete mapping project
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Prepare and present pool presentation on real life students
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Carry out a Divemaster Conducted Programme on real life students
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Equipment exchange
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Final skill circuit
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Every day: we make sure you sit down with your Mentor at the end of every day to go over everything – progress on the course, questions, concerns, evaluations, and party plans!
Your Qualification allows you to:
• Work on dive boats, at resorts and retail stores, take people diving.
• Lead dive trips and tours.
• Conduct discover Scuba programmes.
• Teach and certify Skin diver programmes.
• Teach selected specialty diver programmes.
• Assist instructors in the pool and open water.
• Teach skills in the pool under instructor supervision.
• Enjoy a lifestyle like no other.
Extra week(s)
To build up experience as a Divemaster and built up your CV we offer extra weeks at the dive school for reduced prices. This weeks you really gain a lot of experience from which you can benefit if you want to work in the diving industry.
Finally
Once you are qualified you face the final and ultimate test. The divemasters right of passage, the snorkel test.
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