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Course Description
This course is the first level of dive professional. This course will teach you about the hard and soft skills required to become a dive professional. Academic topics focus on the following dive theory topics: Divemaster Conducted Programs, Supervising Certified Divers, Assisting with Student Divers in Training, Physics, Physiology, Equipment, Dive Skills and Environment, and Decompression Theory and the Recreational Dive Planner. Candidates will also bring their hard skills up instructor level demonstration quality during training. Candidates will focus on the 20 fundamental skills taught to open water divers. In addition, candidates will learn what it means to be a dive professional, the responsibility of taking care of some one underwater and the awareness to deal with complex situations. |
Course Objectives/Outcomes
By completion of the course, each student will be able to:
- Supervise both training and non-training related dive activities
- Assist PADI Instructors during dive training
- Qualified to conduct the PADI Skin Diver and Discover Snorkeling program
- Conduct PADI’s Discover Local Diving experience
- Conduct PADI’s Scuba Review
- Is eligible to earn the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty Instructor rating or
- Independently guide Open Water students during the tour portion of training dives 2, 3 and 4 at a ratio of 2:1 per certified Divemaster
- Accompany student divers during training dives of the Adventure Diver course
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Lecture Topics
- Supervising General Diving Activities – Part 1
- Supervising General Diving Activities – Part 2
- Assisting with Student Divers in Training
- Dive Theory Introduction
- The Physics of Diving
- The Physiology of Diving
- Dive Equipment
- Decompression Theory and the RDP
- Divemaster Conducted Programs
- Risk Management
- The Business of Diving
- Your Diving Career
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Field Studies and exercises
- Water skills and Stamina Exercises 1-4
- Equipment Exchange
- Emergency Assistance Plan
- Rescue Diver Assessment
- Mapping Project
- Practical Training Exercise
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