Want to take the first step in your career as a dive professional? Start with the PADI Divemaster program at Sea Spirit Diving Resort in Taormina, Sicily, Italy!

Duration

For the Divemaster Course there is a min. of 1 month needed but it can also be done in three months. We can arrange everything with you based on your preferences and availability.

About

Working closely with a PADI Instructor, you will expand your theoretical knowledge and bring your scuba diving skills to a professional level. The PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities and qualifies you to supervise diving activities and assist instructors during dive courses. The PADI Divemaster certification is a prerequisite for the PADI Assistant Instructor and PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor Course.

Course Details The DM Program includes the whole official PADI DM training which exists of a lot of assisting on courses, fundives and try-dives, skill circuits, workshops, studying the theory, equipment-workshops, deckhand training on our boats and working together with our PADI Professionals. During this period all the dives are included. As a Divemaster Candidate it’s possible to join our daily program as much as you want, it can be three times a week but also every day. We will make sure you will get a varied program so you can see all aspects of diving and working in a diving resort that operates on the highest level of diving education, for beginners, professionals and certified divers.

Accommodation excluded.

What You Learn

You will learn the necessary skills to be a dive leader through lectures and individual study. You will also complete water skills and training exercises that sharpen your organizational capabilities, problem-solving and ability to help others improve their scuba skills. You will apply this knowledge in a series of practical training exercises.

What You Will Be Able To Teach

After being certified as a PADI Divemaster, you will be authorized to:

• Supervise educational activities, both training and non-training-related, by planning, organizing and conducting dives • Assist a PADI Instructor during training sessions of any PADI diving course • Conduct the PADI Skin Diver course and PADI Discover Snorkelling program • Conduct the PADI Discover Local Diving experience • Conduct the PADI ReActivate • If qualified as a Discover Scuba Diving Leader, independently conduct the PADI Discover Scuba Diving. • Acquire the PADI certification for Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty Instructor, in order to teach the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer • Independently guide Open Water Diver students on the tour portion of training dives 2, 3 and 4 of the PADI Open Water Course, with a ratio of 2 student divers per certified Divemaster • Accompany Open Water Diver students under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor swimming on the surface to and from the point of entry / exit, and during navigation exercises or when the instructor conducts a skill, such as the descent or ascent, a Divemaster can remain with other students (with a single student or a pair) • Accompany student divers during Adventure Dives or Specialty training dives under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor • Conduct the PADI Seal Team Skin Diver Specialist AquaMission • After participants in Discover Scuba Diving have successfully completed their first dive with a PADI Instructor, accompany them on dives under the indirect supervision of the instructor • Teach Emergency First Response courses after successfully completing the Emergency First Response Instructor