Course overview

Earn your first professional rating with the PADI Divemaster course in Hurghada, where a daily-boat operation on the Egyptian Red Sea gives candidates an endless rotation of reefs, drop-offs and dolphin houses to build real leadership experience. Working alongside instructors on busy boats heading out to local fringing reefs and wreck sites near Abu Nuhas, you develop the dive-management, mapping and guiding skills that let you supervise certified divers and assist on courses. You finish ready to work as a PADI professional anywhere in the world.

What you’ll learn

• Supervise certified divers and assist instructors on training programmes
• Lead guided dives and conduct thorough briefings and debriefings on Red Sea reefs
• Map a dive site and build accurate underwater route plans
• Demonstrate the 24 fundamental scuba skills to professional standard
• Manage dive logistics, risk assessment and emergency procedures on day boats
• Sharpen rescue skills, dive-theory knowledge and physical watermanship

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 18
• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)
• PADI Rescue Diver certification
• Emergency First Response (primary and secondary care) within the past 24 months
• 40 logged dives to begin and 60 to certify
• Diver medical clearance signed by a physician

What's included · What's not

Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Orientation & watermanship

   Course briefing, dive-theory review and the stamina and swimming assessments that open the programme.
2. Day2
   Skills workshop

   Polish the 24 fundamental scuba skills to demonstration quality in calm, warm Red Sea water.
3. Day3
   Practical applications

   Lead briefings, map a local reef and run search-and-recovery and navigation exercises from the day boat.
4. Day4
   Guiding & assisting

   Guide certified divers on fringing reefs and assist an instructor on a real training course.
5. Day5
   Internship & wrecks

   Continue building dives and dive count on wreck and reef trips toward Abu Nuhas and the offshore sites.
6. Day6
   Final assessment & certification

   Complete dive-theory exams, the final mapping project and professional standards review to qualify as a Divemaster.

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