Working closely with a SSI Instructor, you’ll fine-tune your dive skills, refine your rescue skills and easily solve common problems. When certified you can assist on training courses, guide certified divers and run programs within the SSI system.

It is important that as part of your training you dive in a variety of different situations. Once certified there are many options for where and how you can dive and assist, whether you want to work at a faraway dive destination or close to home at a local dive shop, the adventure of a lifetime awaits you.

Our Divemaster course is a hands-on course that lets you gain real world dive industry experience by interning on actual courses. You can start your training today - contact the shop to enrol!

The course price includes all your Theory assessments & exams, Confined Water instruction, Open Water instruction, Dive skills workshops & assessments, Water stamina assessments, Dive Guide and Science of Diving online Manual, Divemaster Briefing Slates, Binder and a few other SSI goodies. We also include one Bay Islands Weekend trip for training.

What will you learn:

The SSI Dive guide course teaches you to be a leader and take charge of dive activities, while the Science of Diving course will develop a complete understanding of the underwater world and its effects on the human body. Through academic development sessions, waterskills exercises and workshops, and hands-on practical assessment, you develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of scuba diving activities.

Topics and practical workshops include:

• The role and characteristics of the SSI Dive Guide
• Supervising dive activities and assisting with student divers
• Diver safety and risk management
• Stress and Rescue skills workshop including search and recovery
• Planning and executing a deep dive and/or night dive
• Awareness of the dive environment
• Dive setup and management
• Conducting dive briefings
• Conducting snorkeling programs
• Continuing your diving career

What Scuba Gear will you use?

As a dive professional, you’ll want to have all your basic scuba equipment, including a dive computer, a dive knife, and at least two surface signaling devices. During practical skills exercises, like guiding and deep and night dives you’ll use a compass, floats, marker buoys, torches and slates. Your instructor may suggest additional gear that will be useful throughout your diving career.

Pre-requisites

• Stress and Rescue Diver (or equivalent from another training organization).
• Deep Diver certification or 5 logged dives
• Navigation certification or 5 logged dives
• Night/Limited Vis Diving or 5 logged dives
• Minimum 40 logged dives at start of course.
• 18 years old at course commencement.
• Dive Medical (current to within 1 year).
• 1st Aid and CPR certification (current to within 2 years).

Note: We run all courses required to meet the pre-requisites or you can talk with us to see if you have the required logged dives to meet these.

Minimum of 2 divemaster candidates per course start date. Theory can be started at any time but you must enrol at least two weeks prior to the start date.

Upon completion of your SSI Divemaster course with Global Dive, you will be responsible for your SSI Professional Membership fees.

To be employed as an Occupational Diver in New Zealand, you must complete a Commercial Dive Medical and then apply for and receive an Occupational Safety and Health Certificate of Competency.  More information is available from the Department of Safety and Health.

DOCUMENTS

• EQUIPMENT_RENTAL_199.pdf
• DRYSUIT_RENTAL_46.pdf
• Diver_Medical_Form_58.pdf

TESTIMONIALS

Hi Anna,

Me again. I just wanted to let you know that I passed my IE on the weekend. It was a full on 2 weeks that exploded my brain. But made it in the end.

The reason I say this is not to brag, but to say thank you to you and Andrew. I got top marks in all my skills and teaching, which comes down to the way that I was trained. I’m proud to say I came from Global Dive.

The course director told everyone that he could tell I had been trained well. So just wanted to say thank you and pass that on, that your standards are holding high compared with overseas.

Also being around technical divers and having done my dry suit, all that adds up and helped me get through.

So thanks again.
JG