Dive Professional Training
 
Do you love to scuba dive? Do you want to share your love of scuba diving with others? Then go pro! As a PADI professional, you can supervise certified divers, assist with classes, and teach scuba classes of your own. The Divemaster course is the first step to a life changing decision that opens up numerous possibilities from teaching diving at resorts in the Caribbean or South Pacific, or working on liveaboard dive boats, to running your own charter boat or dive resort. Already a divemaster? Why not take the next step and become an Assistant Instructor or Open Water Scuba Instructor and let dreams become reality!
 
 
DIVEMASTER

The Divemaster course is the first step in your professional development. Divemasters learn to look beyond themselves to consider the safety and well-being of other divers. During your divemaster training, you will develop a complete working knowledge of diving physics, physiology, equipment, and numerous other aspects of diving. As a divemaster candidate, you will develop demonstration quality skills, learn how to assist an instructor with classes, how to supervise and guide divers, and more. This training is actually more of a mentor relationship where the candidate assists with classes and learns how to respond to various situations. Divemaster training expands upon the basic problem prevention and accident management skills you learned during your Open Water Diver course and shows you how to use it in a leadership fashion. At the Divemaster level, you are prepared to manage more complex dive emergencies and apply direct intervention techniques to assist others in an emergency.

The divemaster course is challenging and demanding by nature, but it is also extremely rewarding. As a certified divemaster, you will be qualified to independently conduct discover local diving experiences, scuba reviews, and discover scuba diving courses (if the DSD internship is completed.) The Divemaster course also fulfills the prerequisite for the Assistant Instructor course or Instructor Development Course.

Prerequisites: Advanced Diver, Rescue Diver, CPR and First Aid current within the past 24 months, 40 logged dives at time of enrollment
Requirements: 18 years old or older, 60 logged dives by course completion
Class Size: Private and Semi-Private.
Course Fee: $675
Course fee includes:
  • Academic training sessions
  • Confined water training sessions
  • Multiple open water exercises and training dives conducted over multiple days (site fees may apply).
What you need to provide:
  • Divemaster crew pak (available at PSI)
  • All scuba equipment including tanks and weights (rentals available)
  • Personal gear – mask, open-heel fins with boots, snorkel, and appropriate wetsuit
  • Entrance fees to the quarry (or boat charter fee, if boat diving)
  • Air fill(s) if necessary
  • Application processing fee
ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR
 
Becoming an Assistant Instructor allows you to further your teaching abilities. During the course you will learn how to teach certain knowledge development sessions in the classroom, and skill development sessions in the pool and open water. Upon successful completion of the Assistant Instructor course, you will be able to work with instructors teaching a range of courses, independently evaluate certain skills, and independently teach Discover Scuba Diving programs. As an Assistant Instructor, you will be a valuable resource to instructors that you work with. This training is also a prerequisite for the Open Water Scuba Instructor course.   
 
Course fee: $675
Course fee includes:
  • Academic training sessions
  • Confined water training sessions
  • Open water training sessions (site fees may apply).
Prerequisites: Divemaster
Minimum age: 18
What you need to provide:
  • IDC Crew pak (available at PSI)
  • All scuba equipment including tanks and weights (rentals available)
  • Personal gear – mask, open-heel fins with boots, snorkel, and appropriate wetsuit
  • Entrance fees to the quarry (or boat charter fee, if boat diving)
  • Air fill(s) if necessary
  • Application processing fee
EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONSE INSTRUCTOR
 
If you want to become a scuba instructor, you must also be a CPR instructor. If you want to be marketable in the diving world, you must have some ability to teach CPR and first aid. Maybe you just want to be able to make a few extra dollars by offering this training. Whatever your reason, this course will teach you the proper way to teach CPR and first aid. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to offer CPR and first aid courses for divers and non-divers.
 
Course fee: $300
Course fee includes:
  • Instruction
  • Emergency First Response Instructor Guide
What you need to provide:
  • Application processing fee
  • EFR student manual, video, and pocket mask