RAID Dive Master

The next level in your dive journey

This first level in diving leadership is designed to provide you with the necessary skills to organize conduct and supervise recreational diving activities and act as an instructor's assistant as well as get you ready for your Instructors Course All new RAID Instructor candidates successfully completing the IDP will exit with the RAID Try Dive Instructor rating just as they currently do with Deep and Nitrox.

Sections covered

Academic section (all online):

Diving in General

Environment

Equipment

Physics

Physiology

Management

Rescue

Practical section:

Review of personal diving skills

Stamina and water man ship skills

Diver rescues

Dive briefing and dive site evaluations

Risk management exercises

Environment dive mapping

Assisting and conducting program's

Part 1: Supervision of student divers

Assist with Open Water 20 Training

Assist with Advanced Training

Assist with Master Rescue Training

Part 2: Dive Leadership

Scuba Refreshers

Try Dives

Local Area Orientations

Dive leading certified divers on tour for pleasure

Course content

The RAID Divemaster course you will learn to be a leader in the diving industry amongst your peers. You will be able to lead and control divers in the water, as well as safely conduct dives and should the unlikely situation need a skilled rescuer you will be the one. You will be suitably qualified to assist instructor in their training and be in charge of certified divers on dive activities.

With your online training and self-study Your time with your instructor will elaborate what you have learnt and make sure that you are qualified to the highest standard in the industry and enabling you to look after other divers. This is the beginning of your Professional level of diving and will ultimately prepare you for your Instructor course.

You will spend a lot of time in the pool refining your dive skills to ensure that you have the necessary skills to demonstrate skills to students. You will also be able to assist Instructors on other dive courses, including having the ability to asses dive conditions and potential risks at dive sites.

Course prerequisites

Please chat to Tamara at ScubaCo to find out the exact requirements in order to start your Dive Master course.

Below is a list of the basic course requirements to become a RAID Divemaster. You must first complete as a minimum the following dive courses (this information covers the minimum requirements):

• Open Water 20
• Nitrox
• Advanced 35
• Deep 40
• First Aid & Oxygen Provider
• Navigation
• Master Rescue Diver

If you have more than the minimum courses required it is never a problem, we always recommend that having additional specialties is a great addition to your diving experience.

You will require a minimum 25 hours of logged in-water experience and 60 logged dives in open water to become a RAID Diver master. This in water experience is very important to take on the necessary responsibilities that come with a professional level qualification.

You will also need to have a diving medical less than 6 months old, which is signed-off on by a licensed medical practitioner.

We feel good buoyancy control should be part of a specialty diver certification. If you have come through the RAID system you would have been taught to hover in the horizontal diver position. If not, there will be a workshop provided to train you in this vital buoyancy skill. Being a Great Dive Master involves assisting your divers.