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Divemaster
Your first professional rating, lead, guide and assist on real dives.
Overview
Divemaster is where diving becomes a profession. Working alongside our instructors you develop dive-leadership, supervision and problem-management skills and build the experience to guide divers and assist on courses.
What you'll learn
- Dive leadership and supervision
- Risk assessment and site management
- Assisting on student courses
- Mapping, briefing and guiding
- Professional-level rescue and problem management
What's included
- All academic and teaching-practice sessions
- Agency instructor materials and registration
- Mentored teaching experience with real students
- Evaluation and standards preparation
Prerequisites
SDI Rescue Diver, SDI Advanced Adventure Diver, 40 logged dives and current CPR/First Aid/O2.
Kit for this course
Recommended gear
The configuration we'd dive for this course, tap any card to drill into products, or shop it as a ready-made bundle. Not sure what suits you? Take the gear guide →
Base configuration
Single-tank recreational
- Single cylinder + recreational BCD
- Single regulator set with alternate (octo)
- Dive computer
- Mask, fins and exposure suit
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Add-onTeaching / leadership kit
- Demonstration-quality regulator and mask, plus spare and loaner gear for students
- Slates, wet-notes and lesson / dive-planning tools
- Primary and backup SMBs and spools
- Surface signalling, first-aid and oxygen (O2) kit
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Add-onCold-water (dry suit)
- Dry suit + appropriate undergarment
- Dry or wet gloves
- Dedicated dry-suit inflation hose
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