DIVEMASTER

Becoming a Divemaster is more than just advancing in your training; it is about experiencing diving with greater responsibility, deeper awareness, and more connection, allowing the best of yourself to emerge in service to others. If you feel that the sea transforms you, and that every dive connects you with yourself and others, this course is for you.

Here, you will learn to train as a professional diver by strengthening your technical skills, but also your emotional ones. Because knowing how to manage people—not just dives—is a fundamental and highly necessary added value. You will develop your confidence, a calm presence, and the ability to read the group’s needs with sensitivity and functional empathy. Accompanying others underwater is not just about technique; it is also about caring, listening, and conveying calmness in every dive.

Upon completion, you will have all the technical skills required as a professional to address the two main pillars of this training: organizing, planning, and leading dives, and assisting diving instructors… But you will also have training in emotional diving, enabling you to offer safety and confidence, communicating empathetically, and providing a high-level reading of the group entering this wonderful aquatic world. In the process, you will continue learning about yourself as a person—a challenge that is always appealing. Are you up for it?

Did you know that with just one more day of training, you can obtain 3 certifications to complete your professional CV?

  • Try Dive Instructor: qualifies you to conduct Discover Scuba sessions (Bautismos).
  • First Aid Instructor: qualifies you to teach First Aid courses.
  • Oxygen Administrator Instructor: qualifies you to teach Oxygen Administration courses.

Prerequisites

  • Be at least 18 years old.
  • Hold RAID Nitrox, RAID Deep 40, RAID Master Rescue, RAID First Aid, and RAID Oxygen Administrator certifications or equivalents, issued by a recognized international organization.
  • Have experience in night and navigation diving (certifications recommended).
  • Have a minimum of 15 logged dive hours and at least 45 dives.
    • At least 35 of these dives must have been completed after finishing the Open Water training.
  • Have a Medical Certificate 🔗signed by a registered physician within the last 12 months, stating that the holder is fit to dive.

Course Schedule

The RAID Divemaster Course consists of 8 theoretical training modules that can be completed online or in person, a minimum of 2 hours in confined water, and a minimum of 6 hours of open water diving. In addition, there will be 40 hours of practical training including land exercises, equipment configuration, briefings, and debriefings.

The course also includes emotional education content to enable group management and leadership actions based on people’s needs and emotional self-regulation, as well as a checklist of Divemaster qualities.

Day 1 (8 hours)

  • Theory 1:

    • Course Presentation

    • Safety Standards and Responsibility

    • Equipment Management and Logistics

  • Practice 1: Surface stamina skills.
  • Practice 2: Underwater stamina stress test.

Day 2 (8 hours)

  • Theory 2:

    • Leading diving activities: briefing, routes, and equipment control.

    • Review of rescue skills.

  • Dive 1: Rescue stamina skills.
  • Theory 3:

    • Briefing and observations in open water.

  • Dive 2: Nitrox
  • Dive 3: Night and limited visibility diving.

Day 3 (8 hours)

  • Dive 4: Deep diving

  • Theory 4:

    • Supervising certified divers

    • Conducting briefings and debriefings

  • Theory 5:

    • Accompanying, supervising, and intervening through Emotional Intelligence.

    • Emotional group management.

  • Dive 5: Assisting an instructor (open water)
  • Dive 6: Assisting an instructor (confined water)

Day 4 (8 hours)

  • Theory 6:

    • Dive site planning and management.

    • Physics, physiology, equipment, and maintenance.

  • Practice 3: Mapping.
  • Dive 7: Search and recovery.
  • Dive 8: Emergency equipment exchange.

Day 5 (8 hours)

  • Theory 7:

    • Supervision roles.

    • Guiding, rescue, and supervision scenarios.

  • Practice 4: Development of a Risk Management Plan (RMP).
  • Dive 9: Risk Management Plan practice.
  • Dive 10: Divemaster as a guide.
  • Theory 8:

    • Debriefing

    • Emotional Debriefing

    • General review and final evaluation

Day 6 (OPTIONAL)

  • Theory 9:

    • Try Dive Instructor.

    • Emotional support.

  • Theory 10:

    • First Aid Instructor.

    • Emotional support.

  • Theory 11:

    • Oxygen Administrator Instructor.

    • Emotional support.

Course Details

Price:

  • €799 + VAT (Valid until 12/31/2026) Optional Extension (Try Dive Instructor, First Aid Instructor, and Oxygen Administrator Instructor): €299 + VAT. (Regular price €599 + VAT). *If you are only interested in one of the training modules, please contact us🔗.

Ratio:

  • Minimum 2 – Maximum 8 students

 

Included in the price:

  • Access to the RAID E-Learning platform.

  • All theoretical and practical sessions.

  • Rental of diving equipment or cylinders.

  • Cylinder fills for both students and instructor.

Not Included in the price:

  • RAID Divemaster International Certification (€138 + VAT).

  • RAID Try Dive Instructor, First Aid Instructor, or Oxygen Administrator Instructor International Certifications (€84.50 + VAT each).

  • Student accommodation and meals.

  • Student boat fees.

  • Instructor expenses (to be split among all students):

    • Fuel and tolls.

    • Accommodation.

    • Meals.

    • Boat fees.

Ready to take the first step? You can start your course right now at no cost!

Create your profile on the RAID website.

Go to the “Free E-learning Shop”.

Select the Divemaster course.

You will get access to all the manuals and can complete the first knowledge review quiz completely free.

What’s next after this course?

Once you have successfully completed the course, you will be able to lead dives, assist instructors, or supervise recreational diving activities, among other options.

In addition, you can expand your training with RAID as a Specialty Instructor to guarantee a professional future full of possibilities.

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