PADI Dive Master
€1290* TTC
Half-day
You’re an experienced diver and you’d like to share your passion with those close to you? You want to pass the first level enabling you to become a professional on an international basis via the PADI training system? This course is for you!
This course is recognised all over the world and enables you to practice as a professional except in France where you need to pass the BP or DEJEPS.
In 2025 Aqualonde offers you sessions on demand.
Prerequisites
- To want to do it.
- 18 years old.
- Rescue Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver (or equivalent).
- Emergency First Response primary and secondary care (less than 24 months).
- Medical certificate.
- Have logged 40 dives at the beginning of the course and 60 to obtain the certification.
Objectives
- Be an underwater guide, learn to take people to our museum of nature, “the sea”.
- Be an Assistant to an Instructor, anticipating logistics to make student diver learning easier.
- Conduct certain courses and programmes on your own.
- Participate in the daily task in running a dive centre (they’re nearly all agreeable 😉).
- Share your passion and positive energy.
What you can do after certification:
- You’ll develop your knowledge and abilities in managing and supervising diving to become a role model in all areas for divers.
- As a PADI Dive Master you’ll guide others as you supervise diving activities or work as an Assistant during diver training.
- Whether you wish to work in a faraway dive destination or in a local dive shop, the adventure of your life is waiting for you!
- The PADI Dive Master course is your first level of professional training. Whilst working in close collboration with a PADI Instructor you’ll perfect your diving techniques, such as hovering effortlessly, and improve your Rescue techniques, so you can anticipate and resolve common problems.
- Being a Dive Master enables you to teach, internationally, a small part of the PADI cursus and to anticipate incidents that might happen. You’ll start learning the basis of teaching to run DSD programmes, for example, and be an Assistant to PADI Instructors. A passionate and enriching programme!
Dates of the course
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Length of the course
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Accessibility for those with a handicap
People with a handicap can apply under the condition that the handicap does not interfere with practice or the act of teaching (safety of students) and after a medical certificate.
Methods used and types of evaluation
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Price
€1290
What’s different with Aqualonde ?
- You can teach real students to apply the knowledge you’ve been taught. We think it’s important for a Dive Master intern to not just be prepared for the exam but for the real world.
- No lifting, your gear is systematically transported with our chariots between the centre and the 10 metres distance towards the boat.
- Hot showers in the changing rooms of our dive centre.
- Access to an innovative extra: a dive analysed by a Doppler* ultrasound (not invasive, no needle) “O’Dive” that for the first time globally allows a diver to adapt his diving by taking account of gas microbubbles detected in the veins after the dive. This gives you real physiological data (not just theoretical) about your decompression thanks to a French startup “O’Dive”.
- Access to the most beautiful and prestigious dive sites of the Mediterranean. The “Grec”, “Donator”, “Hellcat”, “Ville de Grasse”: the only paddle steamer wreck still intact or even a submarine decorated with “The order of freedom”. Not forgetting the pinnacles or the famous “Gabinière drop off”, one the richest marine life sites in the heart of the “Port Cros” national park. There is something for all tastes, enormous schools of barracuda, from turtles to sunfish via monkfish and groupers and red gorgonians!
- The closest dive centre to the Golden Islands from the mainland.
- Many hotels and restaurants nearby, for all budgets. La Londe Les Maures is at the heart of the Côte d’Azur, between Hyères and St Tropez, in one of the most preserved areas due to the “Port Cros” National Park and the summer residence of the President of the Republic: “Fort Bregançon”. We’re located on the port, with a big car park, a departure point for the ferries to the Golden Islands and all public transport connections. There are many other activities available for the family while you’re making bubbles! Find our recommendations here.
- Did you like the equipment you used? We offer it for sale at competitive prices.
* Assuming we have the equipment available
The course includes
- Adapted and personalised training in a small group.
- Course conducted by high level professionals, Course Director PADI
- Theory teaching.
- A good atmosphere!
The course does not include
- Accommodation and meals.
- Sun cream or shower gel.
- Application costs (first professional membership of PADI).
- Equipment hire (50% off for a diver doing a course).
Options
- Possibility during the course to pass different PADI Specialties
For any further questions, please contact us