Course overview

Become a PADI Divemaster in Komodo and earn your first professional rating in a marine park famous for current-swept manta cleaning stations and shark-patrolled seamounts. Over weeks of internship you build the stamina, dive-leadership and current-management skills that define a Komodo guide, leading certified divers through sites like Batu Bolong and the Shotgun. You finish able to supervise diving activities, assist instructors and guide certified divers worldwide.

What you’ll learn

• Lead and supervise certified divers in real tidal-current conditions
• Plan dives around Komodo's tides, drifts and entry timing
• Demonstrate the 24 dive skills to a clear, repeatable standard
• Assist instructors with student divers in confined and open water
• Conduct dive briefings, mapping and emergency-management scenarios
• Master rescue skills and dive-leadership stamina assessments

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 18
• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)
• PADI Rescue Diver certification
• Emergency First Response training within the last 24 months
• At least 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
   Knowledge and orientation

   Dive-theory study, the role of the divemaster and an introduction to Komodo's tides and currents.
2. Day2
   Water-skills and stamina

   Complete the swim, float, diver-tow and equipment-exchange assessments.
3. Day3
   Practical workshops

   Dive-site mapping, deep scenario and search-and-recovery exercises on park reefs.
4. Day4
   Guiding internship

   Lead certified divers and assist instructors at sites like Siaba Besar and Batu Bolong over the internship phase.
5. Day5
   Assessment and certification

   Final evaluations, emergency planning and PADI Divemaster certification processing.

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