Description
The PADI Junior Divemaster course teaches you to be a leader. Through knowledge development sessions, water skills exercises and workshops, and hands-on practical assessment, you will develop the skills to organise and direct a variety of scuba diving activities. Topics and practical workshops include:
- The role and characteristics of the PADI Divemaster
- Supervising dive activities and assisting with student divers
- Diver safety and risk management
- Divemaster conducted programs and specialized skills
- The business of diving and your career
- Awareness of the dive environment
- Dive setup and management
- Mapping an open water site
- Conducting dive briefings
- Organising a search and recovery project
- Conducting a scuba review and skin diver course
What Will I do as part of my Junior Divemaster Course?
- Complete the eLearning self study and the two Junior Divemaster exams. These will be supported by 'in-class' sessions with your Rec2Tec Diving professional mentor to allow you to consolidate your learning, apply to real life diving scenarios and ask questions
- Prepare an Emergency Action Plan for a designated dive site
- Complete the following water skills
- 400m swim
- 15-minute tread
- 800m Snorkel / Fin swim nonstop
- 100m Diver Tow - nonstop
- Compete the following in water exercises
- Diver Rescue
- Dive Skills workshop
- Undertake training exercises to test organisational and problem solving abilities
- Refine your personal diving skills
- Work closely with members of the Rec2Tec Diving team and your own personal mentor
- Meet the professionalism criteria from the Divemaster course
What can Junior Divemasters do?
Help a PADI Professional with
- Dive site setup
- Shore-based duties
- Dive class setup and organisation
- Skills demonstration when the skill requires a buddy
- Dive site briefing under the direct supervision of a PADI member
- Encourage other divers
You will not be able to work in a supervisory role until you have turned 18 and completed the full Divemaster course.
To take this course, you must be:
- You need to be 15 to 17 years old (at 18 you can complete the PADI Divemaster certification)
- Minimum logged dives 20 (40 at the time of certification including experience of deep, navigation and night diving)
- PADI Rescue Diver certification or qualifying certification from another training organisation.
- EFR or equivalent certification within the last 24 months
- You need to have a medical statement of fitness to dive signed by a doctor within the last 12 months
- Your own mask, snorkel and computer