The 10 week schedule is as followed (As a student you have your weekends off). This is for the Open Water (OW) to Divemaster programme.
Week 1 Open Water course. Duration: 5 days
Course Content: Start with basics in the comfort of the swimming pool then move on to the excitement of the ocean with six exciting dives.
Week 2 Advanced Open Water Course. Duration: 5 days
Course Content: Experience the different elements of diving. Deep diving, underwater navigation, drift diving and search and salvage are just a few of the specialties to choose from. Your instructor will help choose the dives that best suit your needs.
Week 3 1st Aid. Duration: 2 days
Course Content: An internationally recognized CPR and 1st aid course that covers a wide range of scenarios including bleeding, spinal injuries, victim assessment and life support. This course is not only applicable to the dive industry but any work place. A prerequisite for the Diver rescue course.
Week 3 O2 Provider. Duration: 1/2 day
Course Content: The effective use of oxygen is one of the most important skills in diving, cardiac and rapidity emergency. The course outlines various aspects of providing oxygen including, respiration, delivery systems and oxygen resuscitation.
Week 4 Rescue course. Duration: 5 days
Course Content: Develop new skills in self aid and buddy assist as well as search and retrial techniques. Understand how to recognize and deal with fellow divers suffering from stress. During theory, pool and open Water sessions cover areas such as accident prevention, under and above water rescues and full rescue scenarios.
Week 5 Vessel Handling and Nautical Knowledge
Get to know how to handle the ribs and get them in an out of the water.
Week 6, 7 and 8 Divemater study weeks
Course Content: Knowledge - Communication, presentation and effective teaching techniques are some of the important skills learnt in this professional qualification. Knowledge of physics, physiology, and decompression theory along with a host of other dive related components will be covered.
Week 9 and 10 Divemaster practical (internship)
Duration 10 days practical - In water training is conducted in confined water (swimming pool) and open ocean (Cape Byron Marine Park), with skill demonstration and assessment, leading dives and specialized assist techniques being taught. Your sill level will become second to none.Internship - The real thing, under the guidance of a highly qualified instructor put your new but refined skill to the test. Assist complete beginners in their open water course, teach specialty diver course and conduct scuba review sessions.
If you are already an Open Water diver you can start with the Advanced Open Water course (AOW)
Your Qualification allows you to:
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Work on dive boats, at resorts and retail stores, take people diving
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Lead dive trips and tours
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Conduct discover Scuba programmes
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Teach and certify Skin diver programmes
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Teach selected specialty diver programmes
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Assist instructors in the pool and open water
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Teach skills in the pool under instructor supervision
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Enjoy a lifestyle like no other
More Expensive
Yes, Australia is a bit more expnsive that doing your divemaster course in Asia, but hey, it is Australia! Also this is the only Divemaster course that includes dive gear TO KEEP and you live in Byron Bay, one of the coolest towns on the East Coast!
Why do your Divemaster course here?
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Are you kidding? If you decide to do your Divemaster course in Australia, Byron Bay is the pace to do it. Next to excellent diving with a big chance to see and dive with whales and dolphins, you live in the coolest town in Australia.
Byron Bay is a really trendy and young coastal town with beautiful beaches, great surfing and people watching. Ther e is always a buzz about the place.
Also Byron Bay has it all.
Nice clubs, bars, cool little restaurants, friendly people and a great coastline!
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Work anywhere after the course
Your Australia Divemaster programme gives you the ability to work in any tropical dive location worldwide and it is designed to train you from beginner to professional Divemaster. The perfect gap year qualification for earning money after your course. With the Australian Divemaster programme you will have the time of your life, gain professional diving qualifications and with the that in your back pocket you will be able to hang out in tropical locations, swim in the largest marine park on the planet or live on luxurious yachts in the Caribbean; these are just some of the possibilities that await you as a qualified Divemaster.
What happens during the course?
During the Australia Divemaster programme we will take you through the following:
If you already have scuba diving qualifications, then we will tailor the training (and costs) to suit.
60+ Dives on Julian Rocks and superb down time.
To become a professional Divemaster you need to complete more than 60 dives over a time frame of 10 weeks. The main dive site Julian rocks is rather special:
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Byron is blessed with a unique distinction of the most easterly point of Australia, and it is at this point that tropical water of the Coral Sea collides with the nutrient-enriched water of the southern Tasman Sea. This special blend provides the perfect environment for tropical species to swim alongside more temperate-suited species.
Your will be training 5 days a week and will be off on weekends, this gives you a great opportunity to explore the area. Nimbim is a popular location nearby and the surf in the area is first class.
If you want to learn to surf (Byron bay is a great Surfing location and we will give you a free lesson to get you started!), hang out with the other Divemaster interns on the beautiful beach and meet lots of backpackers!
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Things you will see and experience during your Australia Divemaster!
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Great location - a really fun hip town
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Great bunch of people to train with
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PADI Open Water
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PADI Advanced Open Water
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PADI Rescue Diver and Emergency first Response
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Divemaster internship
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Manta Rays
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Leopard Sharks
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Turtles
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Wobbegong Sharks
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Eastern Blue Gropers
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And a wide array of schools of pelagic fish, including snapper, trevally, sweetlips, batfish and more!
Full Scuba Gear Included...To Keep!
So if you plan on working in the industry afterwards, you will need your own gear, and your own gear you will have. Brand new included in the price. If you already have gear let us know, we will tailor the price for you.
If you are not planning on working in the industry, your own gear is still really useful, as this generally makes scuba diving cheaper all over the world and we are sure it will become a new addiction.
Where else can I take my PADI Divemaster?
We also offer Divemaster internships in the following locations:
Not all Padi Divemaster courses are the same, different locations have a different feel to them, and then there is the diving too. Depending on what you want to see different locations offer different experiences. If in doubt email us with your questions about the divemaster programme of interest, or get trip notes, click the button on the programme page and you will receive more info in a few minutes.
Remember Xtreme Gap Year is run by qualified Divemasters, and we have been to the locations, and dived them! This means we can give you genuine honest advice about what to expect on your Divemaster course or internship.
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