Course overview

Earn your first professional rating with the PADI Divemaster course in Port Blair and learn to supervise dives, assist instructors and guide certified divers through Andaman waters. Working at sheltered Chidiyatapu reefs and out across the wider Andaman Sea, you refine your diving to a demonstration standard while building the leadership, mapping and rescue skills that define a working dive professional. The certification is your entry point to the PADI professional ranks.

What you’ll learn

• Supervise and manage certified divers in open water
• Demonstrate the 24 core scuba skills to a professional standard
• Assist instructors with student-diver training
• Conduct dive briefings, mapping and site management
• Lead certified divers and run guided dive tours
• Apply dive-theory knowledge to real diving operations

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 18
• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)
• PADI Rescue Diver certification
• Emergency First Response (primary and secondary care) within 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
   Theory & assessment

   Dive-theory study and the water-skills and stamina assessments that open the programme.
2. Day2
   Demonstration skills

   Refine the 24 core skills to demonstration quality in calm Andaman water.
3. Day3
   Mapping & site management

   Map and brief a dive site at Chidiyatapu and practise managing divers in the water.
4. Day4
   Internship dives

   Assist instructors on real training dives and shadow guided trips across Andaman sites.
5. Day5
   Rescue & scenarios

   Run dive-management and emergency scenarios, reinforcing rescue and risk-control skills.
6. Day6
   Guided leadership

   Lead certified divers on a guided dive and complete final professional assessments.

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