Minimum Age: 15 / 18 if active status

Prerequisites:

• Diver Stress & Rescue certification,

• 40 logged Dives

• Certification or equivalent experience: Navigation, Night & Limited Visibility, Deep Diving.

SSI Dive Master:

This schedule is individual and can vary greatly. Schedules will depend on each persons time frame.

Academic Sessions: Varies. During these sessions we will cover all theoretical aspects of the course that a Dive Master (DM) needs to understand. This includes but is not limited to:

• Dive Theory
• Dive Physics
• Dive Safety
• Diver Position- Trim, buoyancy, correct weighting
• Duties of a Dive Master
  • As a representative of both yourself and your dive school
  • As a steward for marine ecology
• Your role as a DM
• Evaluate the Dive Site/Group
• Preparation for Dive/Briefing/Dive Site Evaluation
• Guiding the Dive/Debriefings and Logbook
• Dive Guide Incident/Accident Management
• Recognize, manage and deal with stress and dive rescues
• What the future holds for you

Pool/Confined Water Sessions: Varies.

During these sessions we will work on your Trim, buoyancy and over all position in the water. We will work on your skills demonstration. All skills will be demonstrated in neutral buoyancy. Don’t worry if you have not practiced in neutral buoyancy. We will get you to this level. This is an important part of your training as you will be working closely with our Instructor Trainers.

Confined waters is where students for Open Water Diver will spend a good part of their time. Here you as a GoPro Dive Master need to understand the importance of the confined water sessions. You will master all the skills that the student will learn.

Open Water Sessions: Varies.

Here is where we will put all to the test. You will work hand in hand with our SSI Instructor Trainers and see how a typical day as a Dive Master will be. The Dive Master is an important part of the Dive Center and as such must have a full understanding of his or her duties.

We want our Go Pro Dive Masters to be highly trained and skilled and as such spend a lot of in water time with you. On average our Dive Guides in Training(DMT’s) complete more than 100 dives since the beginning of their training.

Maximum Training Depth: 40 meters / 130 feet

Suggested Duration: 35 – 45 hours. In reality with all the in water sessions we normally spend anything up to 100 hours just on the Dive Guide section of the Training.

WHY Captain Morgan’s

At Captain Morgan’s Dive School on Utila, Honduras we believe in a solid practical internship. For instance our Dive Master Internees will spend much of their time with real students under the guidance of our Mentors. Our Mentors are SSI Instructor Trainers and Certifiers. Off course this means they ample experience. We believe in preparing our students to succeed int he real world. Captain Morgan’s does not prepare you to pass an exam, but to be a REAL DIVE PROFESSIONAL.

We want our dive professionals to show exemplary dive skills and as such will give you all the water time needed to reach this level.

We believe that you should lead by example and we want the example to be neutral buoyancy/proper trim. We will use the proven SSI Extended range Foundations course as a building tool to help you be the best you can be under the water. This of course means more in water training. We will make the commitment to you to train you to the highest quality but we will look for the same commitment from you.

Are you ready for a real challenge?

Want to go further with your Dive Master training, then think of adding the SSI Extended Range Bundle to you Dive Master training.

Get certified in the following at an amazing price:

• SSI Foundations(Normal price $800)
• SSI Side mount Diver(Normal price $350)
• SSI Deep Diver(Normally $240)
• SSI Extended Range(Normal Price $800)
• Gas Blender(Normal price $150)
• SSI Technical Extended Range(Normal price $1400)

SPECIAL DIVE MASTER ADD ON PRICE $3000

Important note. GASES NOT INCLUDED