Open Water Dives – Time for the real thing.Apply what you’ve learned in an open water environment.

What you’ll do: Enhance dive skills and explore specialized dive activities with the PADI Adventures in Diving Manual and Video at home, or with a PADI Instructor. Open Water Dives – Five dives (Two required dives: Deep Dive and Underwater Navigation Dive) plus any three PADI Adventure Dives related to specialty courses. Up to three training dives per day.

What you’ll do: Complete an Emergency First Response® Primary Care (CPR) and Secondary Care (First Aid) course or other sanctioned first aid and CPR course. Learn critical rescue skills, perhaps first in confined water with practice in open water. In open water, show your ability to put rescue skills into action through participation in four rescue scenarios.

What you’ll do: Learn dive leadership skills through classroom sessions and by using the Divemaster Manual and Video. Complete a series of waterskills and stamina exercises in confined and open water environments. Map a dive site, including underwater and surface features. Equipment exchange – demonstrate the ability to solve unanticipated problems underwater through skills such as equipment exchange. Conduct a simulated or actual dive program, under the supervision of a PADI Instructor. Internship or Practical Training Exercises (choose one).
– Internship: hands-on experience supervising and assisting divers in actual PADI programs, under the guidance of a PADI Instructor
– Practical Training Exercises: simulated scenarios in supervising and assisting divers, under the supervision of a PADI Instructor. Must have a minimum of 60 logged dives to be certified as a Divemaster.

What you’ll do: Self-study Knowledge Reviews, Knowledge development sessions, candidate presentations and workshops. Confined water – Skills review and assessment, workshops and candidate presentations. Open water – Workshops, rescue assessment and candidate presentations.

What you’ll do: Self-study Knowledge Reviews, Knowledge development sessions, candidate presentations and workshops. Confined water – Skills review and assessment, workshops and candidate presentations. Open water – Workshops, rescue assessment and presentations. Must have a minimum of 100 logged dives to become a PADI Instructor.

What you’ll do: Exams in Dive Theory and PADI Standards and Procedures. Waterskills and diver rescue Assessment. Presentations in classroom, confined and open water.