DIVEMASTER TRAINING PROGRAM
What is a Divemaster?
Divemaster is the first level of professional recreational diving.
That’s the role of a professional Divemaster! Our Divemaster Training Program will fully prepare you to begin working as a Divemaster, jumping into a relaxed, diving-filled lifestyle that can take you all over the world.
Program Overview
During your Divemaster Training Program with Roctopus Pro, you will participate in:
- A specially designed two- week Introductory Period
- Various Workshops, both in the classroom and in the water
- Free marine conservation training
- Course assists on real courses with our Instructors down at Roctopus Dive
- Mentoring from our experienced ProCentre Instructor team
- Unlimited Fun Diving!
Introductory Period
This two week introductory period is a unique aspect of the Roctopus Divemaster Training Program. We guide you through a schedule for your first two weeks that is designed to:
- Give you a thorough orientation of the Divemaster Training Program so you know exactly what to expect
- Introduce you to how things work around the dive shop
- Provide you with a proper boat orientation, where we will guide you through the boat procedures and take you on your first few dives with Roctopus Dive
- Prepare you for other aspects of the Divemaster Training Program, such as briefing and guiding dives, and assisting instructors on courses, through interactive workshops
- Improve your confidence in the water with in-water activities such as buoyancy and navigation workshops
- Provide you with any prerequisite courses you need to officially begin your divemaster training
- Give you time to get more diving experience, get your logged dives up to that 50 dive minimum requirement, and get to know your fellow DMTs and Koh Tao island life!
Workshops
After your Introductory Period, you will continue to take part in specialized workshops designed to give you more knowledge and more dive experience. Some workshops you will participate in during your training include:
On Land
- Decompression theory with Instructor Trainer and Tech Instructor, Erik Ahlin
- A hands-on Equipment workshop where you will learn more about diving equipment and how to make basic repairs on regulators and BCDs
- A physiology lecture with Stephen Read, an experienced dive medic who has experience working in hyperbaric (recompression) chambers
- Environment and conservation lectures with our resident marine conservation expert.
- Dive site mapping workshop
In Water
- Review of rescue scenarios learned during your Rescue course
- A mapping project, where you work with over Divemaster Trainees to map a divesite
- ecoDives with marine conservationist Piers Baillie
- Divemaster scenarios, where you experience what it is like organizing a dive boat, getting divers to and from dive sites, and briefing and leading dives, under the watchful eye of one of the Roctopus Pro Center instructors or Roctopus Dive instructors
The Roctopus ecoTrust
As future dive professionals, you will be in a unique position to influence how others interact with their ocean environment. With this in mind, we have incorporated conservation education into our Divemaster Training Program.
Throughout your training you’ll attend workshops and conduct ecoDives through modules like:
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Coral ecology and health
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Advanced fish ID and environmental monitoring
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Water Quality Analysis
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Ghost net removal and lift bag use
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Help make an immediate impact and educate travelers through reef clean-ups and Debris Free Friday beach clean-ups
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Help monitor aquatic life populations through sea turtle and whale shark identification
Amplify your Divemaster Training through our ecoDivemaster Program, combining our ecoInternship with your DMT requirements, together developing the next leaders in marine conservation.
What are the Prerequisites?
These are the requirements to begin your official Divemaster training:
- You must be at least 18 years old
- Have a current (within 1 year) RSTC Medical Form signed by a licensed physician. We recommend that you bring this with you but you can also get this on Koh Tao at one of our local clinics.
- Have an Open Water diver, Deep and Nitrox specialties, and a Rescue diver certification from a recognized agency. These courses can be done at Roctopus. Contact us for a price breakdown.
- Have a current (within the 2 years) certification in First Aid and Oxygen Provider. If you don not have these, you can do our comprehensive First Aid course with us.
- Have at least 45 logged dives. This is part of your free fun diving so you won’t have to pay extra for this! Roctopus sends out two boats doing 4 dives a day, so it won’t take long for you to get to the required number of dives.
- Experience in the following areas:
- Deep
- Navigation
- Night/Limited Visibility Diving
Any certifications needed to meet these requirements can be completed through Roctopus Dive or Roctopus Pro once you arrive.
Divemaster
Two Month ProgramUnlimited diving for 2 months!
Introductory Period
All Divemaster Training workshops
Lifetime access to Divemaster course materials
Use of BCDs, regulators and weight systems
Free Roctopus Pro T-Shirt and a Koh Tao Dive Site Guide
Divemaster
Three Month ProgramUnlimited diving for 3 months!
Introductory Period
All Divemaster Training workshops
Lifetime access to Divemaster course materials
Use of BCDs, regulators and weight systems
Free Roctopus Pro T-Shirt and a Koh Tao Dive Site Guide
ecoDivemaster
Three Month ProgramUnlimited diving for 3 months!
Introductory Period
All Divemaster Training AND ecoDiving workshops
Lifetime access to Divemaster and ecoDiver course materials
Use of BCDs, regulators and weight systems
Free UV night dive, ecoBag, Roctopus Pro T-Shirt and a Koh Tao Dive Site Guide