Practical Experience

In the pool or confined water, you will learn how to supervise students who are learning how to dive, how to help control groups of divers, and also learn how to demonstrate diving skills.  Also, in one session, you will go through a full circuit of water skills.  In open water, you will perform a full rescue scenario.
The hand on experience also comes from an internship where you accompany an Instructor on fun diving tours, open water and advanced level courses.  You will learn how to manage and supervise diving tours as well as to lead underwater.  The course is based on actual, real life diving experiences as well as practical training exercises.

Last, but not least, you will learn the basics of customer service, the business of diving, and how the Dive master makes a diving trip/course more fun and enjoyable for all divers, not to mention the primary focus on safety.  There will also be an overview of the retail side of the industry and the sales and marketing of dive courses and equipment.
Sound like a hard course?  Maybe so.  But the rewards are tremendous.  The person who holds the Dive master certification is a rare breed of diver.  Less than 10 percent of certified divers reach this professional level.  The Dive master is well respected by fellow divers.