Divemaster

The SDI Divemaster Course is the first professional level certification. During the course you will learn how to work with divers, lead certified divers, and act as a dive guide showing divers underwater dive sites and the marine life that inhabits those dives sites. You will increase your knowledge about physics and physiology as well as increase your proficiency with your scuba and snorkeling skills.

Course prerequisites:

• Minimum age 18
• Certified SDI Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent; advanced certification must include verifiable experience in deep, navigation, night and limited visibility specialties
• Certified SDI Rescue Diver or equivalent
• Provide proof of current CPR, first aid and oxygen provider (where local law permits)*
• Provided proof of at least 40 logged dives

*Note: SDI CPROX, CPR1st or CPROX1stAED courses may be combined with the SDI Divemaster program by qualified instructors

Required skills you will have to demonstrate:

• 800 metre swim with mask, snorkel, and fins non-stop without the use of arms in less than 17 minutes
• 400 metre swim on the surface, non-stop, any stroke, without the use of swimming aids, in less than 10 minutes; swim goggles permitted
• Scuba skills – minimum equipment: all equipment required for a SDI Dive Leader
• Bring a diver, simulating unconsciousness, up from depth, not greater than 6 metres/20 feet; at the surface swim them 100 metres in less than 4 minutes
• Confined water skills

What’s in it for you?

Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may:

• Assist an active SDI Instructor during approved diving courses provided the activities are similar to the graduate’s prior training
• Supervise and conduct dives for certified divers, provided the activities are similar to the graduate’s prior experience and training

SDI Divemaster Diver minimum requirements:

• Satisfactorily complete the SDI Divemaster written examination, or online version with a minimum score of 80 percent and 100 percent remediation
• Complete all water requirements
• Demonstrate to an active SDI Instructor the ability to solve in-water and out-of-water diver problems
• Demonstrate mature and sound judgment concerning dive planning and execution
• Operate as a Divemaster in a wide variety of environments

If you are interested in furthering your scuba skills please view this pathway document! Pathway Doc