Full Face Mask Diver
- The certified diver looking for more information about the different full face masks available and how to determine the correct one to meet their needs
- SDI Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent
- Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
The SDI Full Face Mask Diver Course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:
- Purpose
- Diver safety
- Communications
- Advantages
- Increased diver safety
- Communications
- Corrective lenses
- Disadvantages
- Increased air consumption
- Buoyancy
- Bulky
- Types
- Appropriate/inappropriate
- Scuba quick connect/disconnect
- Surface supplied
- Techniques/procedures
- Donning
- Diving with a full face mask
- Underwater Communications
- Types of communication equipment
- User/field maintenance and care
- Authorized servicing/preventive maintenance
- After use
- Dive plan
- Equipment set up
- Proper donning and adjustment
- On the surface, switching from open to close
- Proper weighting
- Establish buoyancy and demonstration of buoyancy control
- Equalization techniques
- Clearing a partially flooded mask
- Remove and replace full face mask underwater
- free flowing full face mask
- Successfully switch to a back up mask
- Remove mask and utilization of alternate air source
- Alternate air source ascent
- Ascent and exit
- Log dive
Dry Suit Diver
*** If you buy a Drysuit from us, you get this course for FREE***
** This price includes the price of the E-Learning, Confined Water, and Open Water Training. It also includes tanks and rental gear.**
Research Diver
The purpose of this specialty course is to acquaint the open water diver with the fascinating topic of research diving. After the completion of this course, a diver will be better able to discover, explore, and appreciate the underwater environment by using research techniques and better preserve and protect the underwater environment.
Who this course is for:
- The certified diver looking to learn research techniques used during diving and to learn more about the underwater world including the environment and the aquatic life
Course prerequisites:
- SDI Open Water Scuba Diver, or equivalent
- Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
What you can expect to learn:
The SDI Research Diver Course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:
- Water environment, fresh and salt water
- Ecology
- Food chains
- Habitat
- Niche
- Interactions with other forms
- Basic oceanography
- Coral reefs
- Kelp
- Bays and open coast
- The marine animals
- Fishes
- Mollusks
- Invertebrates
- Mammals
- Dangerous animals
- Diving methodology
- Collection of data
- Detailed mapping techniques
- Survey methodology
- Marking and capturing
- Research for sport
- Conservation
Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include:
- Plan dives
- Test and check all equipment
- Enter and descend
- Compass usage
- Familiarization with the area and ecology
- Area survey/research techniques
- Marine life identification
- Record data
- Log dives
** This price includes the price of the E-Learning, Confined Water, and Open Water Training. It also includes tanks and rental gear.**
Solo Diver
At one point or another, many divers have found themselves alone during a dive, whether it was intentional or not. SDI’s Solo Diving is the practice of self-reliant scuba diving without a “dive buddy. "Solo diving, once considered technical diving and discouraged by most certification agencies, is now seen by many experienced divers and some certification agencies as an acceptable practice for those divers suitably trained and experienced. Rather than relying on the traditional buddy diving safety system, solo divers should be skilled in self-sufficiency and willing to take responsibility for their own safety while diving.
Being one of SDI’s most popular courses, the Solo Diver course stresses proper dive planning, personal limitations, and accident prevention, as well as the benefits, hazards, and proper procedures for diving solo. You will also learn the additional equipment that is required for solo diving including its proper usage and assembly. This is the perfect course for underwater photography and underwater video divers as well as those diving with their children or buddies that may not be very experienced in scuba diving.
Who this course is for:
The certified SDI Advanced Diver (or equivalent) who is interested in learning how to dive independent of a dive buddy or looking to strengthen your buddy team diving skills.
Course prerequisites:
- Minimum age 21
- Certified SDI Advanced Diver or equivalent
- Provide proof of 100 logged dives
What you can expect to learn:
The SDI Solo Diver course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:
- Why solo dive?
- History of buddy diving
- Pros and cons of buddy diving and solo diving
- Legal liability assumed by buddy diving
- How to use the SDI Solo Diving waiver and release
- Who must solo dive?
- The solo diving mentality
- When not to solo dive
- Equipment for solo diving
- Planning and conducting a solo dive
- Navigation
- Management of solo diving emergencies
- Review the SDI Solo Diver Liability Release and Express Assumption of Risk Agreement Form
Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include all of the following and more:
- 200 meters/600 feet surface swim in full scuba equipment, configured for local diving conditions; must be non-stop and performed in an open water environment
- Demonstrate adequate pre-dive planning
- Plan dive limits based on personal air consumption rate
- Plan exact dive
- Properly execute the planned dive within all predetermined limits
- Equipment configuration appropriate for solo diving
- Proper descent/ascent rates
- Proper safety stop procedures
- Monitoring of decompression status equipment; tables, computers, equipment, etc.
- Navigation skills – demonstrate proficiency of navigation with compass
- Demonstrate emergency change over to redundant air supply (not to exceed 30 meters/100 feet)
- Deploy surface marker buoy (SMB)
- Use of audible signaling device
What’s in it for you?
Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may engage in solo diving activities without direct supervision of the SDI Instructor as long as the following limits are adhered to:
- The diving activities approximate those of training
- The areas of activities approximate those of training
- Environmental conditions approximate those of training
The SDI Solo Diver certification counts towards a single specialty rating to complete the SDI Advanced Diver Development program or SDI Master Scuba Diver Development program.
SDI Solo Diver minimum requirements:
- Satisfactorily complete the SDI Solo Diver Knowledge Quests with a passing score of 80%, followed by 100% remediation by the Instructor.
- Complete all open water requirements efficiently
- Demonstrate mature and sound judgment concerning dive planning and execution
How to take this course?
- Find your local SDI Dive Center: here
- Available as an Online Course: Start eLearning today!
- Course Cost: $144.15 USD for eLearning only. Pool and open water training not included. Contact your local dive shop for full course cost.
Review the course Standards & Procedures.
eLearning courses are available in many languages.
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This course is taught on a one-on-one basis.
Additional costs can be incurred during course. Must have all of your own equipment to be certified.
** This price includes the price of the E-Learning, Confined Water, and Open Water Training. It also includes tanks and rental gear.**
Sidemount Diver
Who this SDI course is for:
- The certified diver looking to use a sidemount cylinder instead of the standard back mount unit.
Course prerequisites:
- SDI Open Water Scuba Diver or equivalent
- Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent.
What you can expect to learn:
The SDI Sidemount Diver Course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:
- Gas management utilizing independent cylinders
- Equipment considerations
- Cylinder options
- Regulator options
- Buoyancy compensator device (BCD)/harness options
- Proper weighting
- Equipment configurations
- Communication
- Hand signals
- Problem solving
- Gas-sharing
- Gas hemorrhages
- Water entries
- Shore
- Boat
- S-Drills (specific to sidemount)
Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include:
- Plan dive
- Test and check all equipment (depth gauges, bottom timers/watches and computers)
- Familiarization with area
- Descend to planed depth and not exceed any pre-planned limits
- Demonstrate the ability to safely manage gas in independent cylinders
- Monitor depth/time/air consumption, figure all times on slate
- Demonstrate ability to control buoyancy
- Attaching sidemount cylinders while
- Out of water
- On surface standing on bottom
- On surface in water to deep to stand
- At depth
- Perform gas switches
- Perform safety stops
What’s in it for you?
Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may engage in sidemount diving activities without direct supervision, provided the following limits are adhered to:
- Safety stops as appropriate
- Planned dives do not exceed diver’s current certification level
Also, the SDI Sidemount Diver certification counts towards a single specialty rating to achieve the SDI Advanced Diver Development program.
** Additional Days for Confined Water and Open Water may be needed; these days are billed separately on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the skills needed to be retrained**
** This price includes the price of the E-Learning, Confined Water, and Open Water Training. It also includes tanks and rental gear.**
Search & Recovery Diver
This specialty is designed to acquaint the diver with special skills and techniques necessary to successfully plan, execute and evaluate a search and recovery dive.
Who this course is for:
- The certified diver looking for more information to maximize the use of search and recovery for scuba diving
Course prerequisites:
- SDI Open Water Scuba Diver, SDI Junior Open Water Diver, or equivalent
- Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
What you can expect to learn:
The SDI Search and Recovery Diver Course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:
- Navigation
- Compass use
- Estimating distances
- Natural navigation
- Limited visibility diving
- Factors affecting visibility
- Hazards of limited visibility
- Techniques of diving
- Search techniques
- Shotgun
- Circular search
- Grid search SDI Instructor Manual
- Current (overlap) search
- Signals for search diving
- Salvage techniques
- Depth considerations
- Lift bags
- Lifting drums
- Necessary qualities of lifting devices
- Knots and rigging
- Fill techniques
- Mud/silt suction considerations
Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include:
- Review compass techniques
- Review search techniques
- Practice and perform different search patterns
- Review lifting techniques
- Recover an object from depth
- Salvage and recovery of an object with a water weight of between 11 and 33 kg/25 and 75 lbs
- Simulate scuba emergency using a minimum of 2 searching techniques
- Log dives
** This price includes the price of the E-Learning, Confined Water, and Open Water Training. It also includes tanks and rental gear.**
Wreck Diver
Wreck diving can be one of the most exciting aspects of sport diving, however every effort must be made to maximize safe diving techniques. The SDI Wreck Diver Course will discuss the equipment and techniques commonly employed while wreck diving. This course may be taught as a non-penetration, 2 dives required, or as a limited-penetration course, requiring 3 dives. Limited-penetration is defined as a swim through or within the ambient light of entry point.
Who this course is for:
Individuals who wish to know more about the wreck diving including:
- Researching wrecks
- Mapping wrecks
- Proper use of lines while wreck diving
- Exploring underwater history
Course prerequisites:
- SDI Open Water Scuba Diver, or equivalent
- Minimum age 18, 15 for limited penetration course with parental consent
- Minimum age 10 with parental consent for a non-penetration course
- Junior Open Water Divers may not participate in any penetration activities or dives deeper than 18 metres/60 feet
- Divers must have a deep diver specialty certification or be able to provide proof of experience in order to dive deeper than 18 metres/60 feet in this course
What you can expect to learn:
The SDI Wreck Diver course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:
- Why wreck dive?
- Surface supports
- Communications, when and if necessary
- Back-up procedures
- Buddy system
- Buddy contact
- Contact with varied visibility
- Buddy lines
- Line signals
- Buddy positioning in close proximity
- Navigation/charting
- Usage of the slate
- Larger than normal
- Pre-dive marking
- Pre-planning the dive using charts, other information
- Directional determination
- Disorientation
- With/without buddy
- Lost buddy
- Light failure
- Emergency procedures
- Special equipment
- Lights: primary and backup, size, burn time, and usage
- Knifes and cutting devices
- Limited visibility diving
- Silt-out
- Psychological considerations
- Light usage
- Importance of light and backup
- Dark vision, don’t shine light in buddy’s eyes
- Life lines and reels
- Type of line
- Tie-offs
- Directional markers
- Line handling and reeling must be practiced on land prior to performing this skill underwater
- Special emergency procedures
- Safe Wreck
- Hazardous or otherwise unsafe wrecks
- Mapping the wreck
- Vertical, horizontal, and feature identification
What’s in it for you?
Upon successful completion of this course graduates may:
- Dive wrecks that are similar to the type of wrecks they were exposed to during training
- Plan and execute a wreck dive
Also, the SDI Wreck Diver certification counts towards a single specialty rating to achieve the SDI Advanced Diver Development program.
SDI Wreck Diver minimum requirements:
- Open Water Dive 1
- Pre-dive review of dive computers
- Plan dive
- Test lights
- Familiarization with areas
- Basic charting outside wreck
- Usage of lines outside wreck, optional
- Surface and log dive
- Open Water Dive 2
- Plan dive
- Figure surface interval
- Descend
- Team complete mapping
- Usage of lines outside wreck, optional
- Surface and log dive
- Open Water Dive 3
- Plan dive
- Descend
- Usage of lines inside wreck, optional
- Surface and log dive
- Open Water Dive 4 (Optional)
- Plan dive
- Planned dive explained
- Dive/explore as determined
- Surface and log dive
How to take this course!
- Available as an Online Course: Start eLearning today!
- Find your local Dive Center: here
- Course Cost: $144.15 USD for eLearning only. Pool and open water training not included. Contact your local dive shop for full course cost.
Review the course Standards & Procedures.
eLearning courses are available in many languages.
Check course translation availability Here
** This price includes the price of the E-Learning, Confined Water, and Open Water Training. It also includes tanks and rental gear.**
Assistant Instructor
Who this course is for:
- This course is designed to have students gain practical teaching experience with an active SDI Instructor
- Minimum age 18
- Certified SDI Divemaster or equivalent
- Provide proof of current CPR, first aid and oxygen provider, * where local law permit
- Provide proof of at least 60 logged dives or 50 logged dives and 25 hours underwater accumulated time
- Possess the minimum instructional equipment, as defined in leadership course standards section two of this manual
What you can expect to learn:
The SDI Assistant Instructor Diver Course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:
- SDI Standards and Procedures
- History of SDI
- Products and procedures
- How to place an order
- Yearly renewals
- SDI requirements for SDI Assistant Instructor certification
- SDI Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibilities of an SDI Assistant Instructor
- Liability and insurance
- Risk management
- Waivers and releases
- Filling out an accident report
- Course planning
- Preparation, planning and control in dive management and diving activities
- Pool/confined water and open water procedures
- Practical experience in assisting with the training of open water dives
- Pool/confined water and open water problem solving
- How to conduct a snorkeling course
- How to conduct an inactive diver/refresher course
- Emergency procedures
- First aid
- Oxygen (O2) administration
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- Assist in all required courses
- Demonstrate mature and sound judgment concerning dive planning and execution
- Complete a 400-meter swim on the surface, non-stop, any stroke, without the use of swimming aids, in less than 10 minutes; swim goggles permitted
- Complete a 800-meter swim with mask, snorkel, and fins non-stop without the use of arms in less than 17 minutes
- Provide proof of 60 logged dives
- Bring a diver, simulating unconsciousness, up from depth, not greater than 6 meters/20 feet: at the surface swim them 100 meters in less than 4 minutes
Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may:
- Teach and certify students in the SDI Snorkeling Course
- Conduct the SDI Inactive Diver/Refresher Course
- Conduct the knowledge quest review in the SDI Open Water Scuba Diver course under the guidance of an active SDI Instructor
- 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 training
- Teach approved specialties after receiving instructor training in those specialties
- Demonstrate all open water diver skills to instructor quality
- Complete the SDI Assistant Instructor exam, or online version, with a minimum score of 80 percent and 100 percent remediation
- Available as an Online Course: Start eLearning today!
- Find your local SDI Dive Center: here
- Course Cost: $352.02 USD for eLearning only. Pool and open water training not included. Contact your local dive shop for full course cost.
Course Standards & Procedures
** This price includes the price of the E-Learning, Confined Water, and Open Water Training. It also includes tanks and rental gear. Before certification, student must own their own professional scuba gear**
Deep Diver Course
Deep Diver Course
SDI’s Deep Diver Course is a must for any diver wishing to explore a little more, go a little deeper, and learn the risks and benefits associated with deep diving. Many interesting sights lay just beyond open water diver training limits such as: beautiful wall dives, shipwrecks, and critters that don’t come into the shallows. The purpose of this course is to provide the necessary training to plan and execute dives that are beyond the depth range experienced during an SDI Open Water Scuba Diver course, specifically beyond 18 meters/60 feet and to a maximum depth of not greater than 40 meters/130 feet. By the end of the course your knowledge, awareness, and comfort level with deep diving activities will have increased.
Who this course is for:
- Any certified open water scuba diver who wishes to expand their diver knowledge and skill set
- Any certified open water scuba diver who would like to advance their dive training
Course prerequisites:
- SDI Open Water Scuba Diver, SDI Junior Open Water Scuba Diver, or equivalent
- Minimum age 18, 10 with parental consent
** This price includes the price of the E-Learning, Confined Water, and Open Water Training. It also includes tanks and rental gear.**
Accomplished Diver Program
Accomplished Diver Program
Student Prerequisites
To participate in the SDI Accomplished Diver Course, the individual must: a. Have proof of a Junior Open Water Scuba Diver certification or Open Water Scuba Diver certification from a recognized agency, or documentation of a current military diver rating, or if not certified, documentation of at least 50 hours diving. Course Structure and
Duration Academic:
An academic review covering the basic open water knowledge areas including the use of a personal dive computer must be completed. For divers that have never held a certification this review must include the completion of the SDI Open Water Scuba Diver manual or online Open Water Scuba Diver course.
Course Structure: SDI allows instructors to structure courses according to the number of students participating and their skill level. Duration:
1. The suggested number of training hours is 4-8 Open Water Execution.
2. One dive is required, and the training depth must not exceed 18 metres / 60 feet. Administrative Requirements Administrative Tasks:
1. Collect the course fees from all the students.
2. Ensure that the students have the required equipment.
3. Communicate the schedule to the students.
4. Have the students complete the:
a. SDI Liability Release and Express Assumption of Risk Form
b. SDI Medical Statement Form.
5. Maintain a copy of the student’s current credentials. Upon successful completion of the course the instructor must: Issue the appropriate SDI certification by submitting the SDI Diver Registration form to SDI or registering the students online through member’s area of the SDI website,
Required Equipment Basic open water scuba equipment as described in section two of this manual. A personal dive computer (PDC) is required.
Required Skill Performance and Graduation Requirements Although one in-water training dive is required, the instructor may use their discretion with reference to the skills needed to complete the dive. SDI offers the following outline:
1. Plan Dive:
a. Equalization techniques.
b. Communication signals.
c. Lung over-expansion problems.
2. Review of dive computer.
3. Scuba system assembly.
4. Weight adjustment
5. Mask defog.
6. Don scuba system.
7. Adequate entry for site conditions.
8. Controlled descent.
9. Computer check.
10. Regulator clearing.
11. Regulator recovery.
12. Mask clearing.
13. Fin use.
14. Buoyancy control; hovering.
15. Underwater tour.
16. Computer check.
17. Controlled ascent; computer assisted.
18. Exit.
19. Disassemble scuba system.
20. Log dive. In order to complete this course, students must:
1. Demonstrate mature and sound judgment concerning dive planning and execution. 2. Complete all open water requirements safely and efficiently.
SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Instructor (OWSDI), FRTI and EMR O2 Instructor Course
SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Instructor (OWSDI), FRTI and EMR O2 Instructor Course
The SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Instructor (OWSDI) course is designed to teach current Divemaster's or Assistant Instructors certified with a recognized dive training organization the knowledge to effectively function as an open water scuba diver instructor. This program is divided into two sections, an instructor development course (IDC) and an instructor evaluation course (IEC).
CPR, first aid, and oxygen provider courses will be combined with the IDC Program by our qualified Instructor Trainers.
**NOTE: Both can be conducted through the shop. This is an inclusive price**
Who this course is for:
- Individuals that wish to share their love for the underwater world with others
Course prerequisites:
- Minimum age 18
- Certified diver for a minimum of 6 months
- Proof of 100 logged dives completed in a number of different environments with varying depths
- Be certified as a SDI Divemaster, SDI Assistant Instructor, or equivalent
- Provide proof of current CPR, first aid and oxygen provider*, where local law permits
* Note: CPR, first aid, and oxygen provider courses may be combined with the IDC Program by qualified instructors
What you can expect to learn:
The SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Instructor course takes an in-depth look at all of the following and more:
- SDI Standards and Procedures
- History of SDI
- Products and procedures
- How to place an order
- Registration procedures
- Yearly renewals
- Liability and insurance
- Risk management
- Waivers and releases
- Filling out an accident report
- Methods of instruction
- Teaching theory, methods and oral communications
- Lesson preparation
- Use of training aids
- SDI home study program, use of knowledge quest
- Successfully selling scuba
- Budgeting courses
- Recruiting students
- Organizing and scheduling a course
- Retail sales
- Instructor ethics
- Physics and physiology of diving
Some of the required skills you will have to demonstrate include:
- Present a minimum of
- Two classroom presentations
- Two lessons in confined water
- Two lessons in open water
- Show preparation, planning and control in
- Dive management
- Diving activities
- Perform, to demonstration quality, one complete rescue scenario
- Perform a 10 minute survival-float, without the use of swimming aids
- Complete a 400 meter swim on the surface, non-stop, any stroke, without the use of swimming aids, in less than 10 minutes; swim goggles permitted
- Complete a 800 meter swim with mask, snorkel, and fins non-stop without the use of arms in less than 17 minutes
- Bring a diver, simulating unconsciousness, up from depth, not greater than 6 meters / 20 feet; at the surface swim them 100 meters in less than 4 minutes
- Pool/confined water
- Candidates must perform, to demonstration quality, all skills listed in the SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Course
- Pool/confined water problem solving
- Open Water
- In open water candidates must perform, to demonstration quality, all skills listed in the SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Course
- Open water problem solving
Required Skill Performance for IEC, the student must:
- Present a minimum of
- One classroom presentation, minimum time 15 minutes in duration
- One full lesson in confined water
- One full lesson in open water
- The evaluating instructor trainer must verify all required subjects were covered and skills were performed
What’s in it for you?
Upon successful completion of this course, graduates may:
- Teach the SDI Open Water Scuba Diver, Advanced Adventure Diver Specialty, Computer Diver, Rescue Diver, Divemaster and Assistant Instructor course
SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Instructor minimum requirements:
- Satisfactorily complete the SDI Instructor written exam or online equivalent
- Successfully complete the IDC and the IEC
- Demonstrate mature and sound judgment concerning class planning and execution
How to take this course!
Course Cost and Structure:
- $386.86 USD for Open Water Instructor E-Learning.
- $66.85 for the FRTI, O2, and other E-Learnings
- This is run as a 3 Week Virtual Meeting Course after the E-Learning is completed.
- There is a 10 Day in person portion, that includes pool and Open Water
- This cost includes your Instructor Development Course Fees as well as your Individual Evaluation Fees.
- When you complete this course, you will be able to teach Everything an Open Water Scuba Instructor will be able to teach and all five (5) of the First Response Courses that an instructor can Teach.
** This price includes the price of the E-Learning, Confined Water, and Open Water Training. It also includes tanks. Before certification, student must own their own professional scuba gear**
Divemaster Course
The SDI Divemaster course offers divers the chance to ascend to the professional ranks of diving, providing them with comprehensive skills in dive leadership, safety management, and underwater guidance, thereby opening doors to a rewarding career in the dive industry.
Unlocking Pro Potential: Benefits of the Divemaster Certification
The SDI Divemaster certification is a significant milestone in your diving career, empowering you with the expertise to lead certified divers, manage dive sites, and ensure safety with the utmost professionalism. Through rigorous training, you’ll deepen your understanding of diving science, including physics and physiology, and refine your practical diving skills to handle complex underwater scenarios confidently. This course transforms you into a trusted leader and mentor within the diving community, enhancing your ability to guide and inspire fellow divers, and setting a solid foundation for a rewarding career in dive instruction and dive center management.
Diving into the Details: Divemaster Prerequisites
Designed for advanced divers looking to progress into professional dive roles or pursue instructorship, the SDI Divemaster course sets a high standard for entry:
- Target Audience: Advanced divers aiming to transition into professional roles within the dive industry, such as dive guides or instructors.
- Age and Certification Requirements: Minimum age of 18, holding an SDI Advanced Adventure Diver certification or equivalent, with proven experience in essential diving specialties.
- Rescue Diver Qualification: A prerequisite is the SDI Rescue Diver certification or its equivalent, ensuring a solid foundation in diver safety and rescue operations.
- Health and Safety Credentials: Current CPR, first aid, and oxygen provider certifications are required, demonstrating comprehensive emergency preparedness.
- Dive Log Prerequisite: A minimum of 40 logged dives to show extensive diving experience and familiarity with various underwater environments.
Core Learning: Divemaster Skills and Knowledge
During the course, you’ll gain in-depth knowledge of SDI standards and procedures, diving physics and physiology, risk management, and effective dive leadership techniques. You’ll learn essential skills for dive planning, emergency response, and group management, ensuring you can confidently oversee safe and enjoyable diving activities. This comprehensive education prepares you for the diverse challenges and responsibilities of a professional Divemaster.
Course Experience: What to Expect
Prepare for a rigorous and rewarding training experience, blending online education with practical in-water sessions. The course demands high physical fitness levels, demonstrated through swim tests and rescue scenarios, alongside mastery of diving skills in various conditions. You’ll engage in active learning, developing the ability to manage dive groups, solve problems, and lead dives effectively. This holistic training approach equips you with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to excel as a SDI Divemaster.
By completing the SDI Divemaster Course, you step into a world of professional diving, ready to lead, inspire, and advance in the global dive community.
Review the Course Standards and Procedures
Ready to Take the Next Step?
Embark on this journey to become a certified Divemaster and elevate your diving career to new heights. Your expertise in leading and managing dive trips will not only make you an invaluable asset to the diving community but also open doors to further professional development and extraordinary diving expeditions.
Take this step to not only enhance your diving journey but also to become a key player in ensuring every dive is a safe one. We’re excited to welcome you to this critical and rewarding field within the diving community!
* eLearning courses are available in many languages.
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** This price includes the price of the E-Learning, Confined Water, and Open Water Training. It also includes tanks and rental gear. Before certification, student must own their own professional scuba gear**
Scuba Diving Courses
