IDR 16.000.000
Become a Divemaster and do what you love: Dive to survive! As a divemaster you’ll guide certified divers, supervise scuba diving activities and assist with diving courses. Being a Divemaster is the first step in your professional diving career.
Did you ever dream of living in a place where others go on holiday? Are you done with your job and would like to work on a tropical island such as Gili Meno? Then look no further! The divemaster course Gili Meno is exactly what you looking for.
You can now become a professional diver doing a Divemaster course with Divine Divers on the Gili Islands. The course takes you through structured trainings and workshops in the pool, open water and classroom. We will prepare you for your future career in diving and are happy to tailor the divemaster course to your individual needs. Please remember though, the more you put in, the more you get out of it.
During the Divemaster course on Gili Meno, you will gain extensive dive knowledge, tweak your dive skills, polish your rescue capacities as well as organisational and supervision abilities. You will of course have a mentor who is going to be your go-to-person and mainly in charge for your training.
You will cover all aspects of being a dive professional from understanding the theory of being a Divemaster, to using a SMB and mapping a dive site. Upon completion you will be ready and prepared to lead others into the water, with the understanding that you are able to safely deal with many situations.
This will not only make you a role model to divers everywhere in this world. During the Divemaster course with Divine Divers on Gili Gili Meno you will improve your self-confidence, public speaking abilities and social skills. All of that is essential to any career you may eventually choose.
The course takes in between 4 to 6 weeks and you can start whenever you want. Depending on how many dives you already have and at what certification level you stand, this could also take longer.
At the end of the course you will earn the elite Divemaster Certification. What sounds like just a plastic card is in reality the entry ticket to a new live.
Your divemaster training will of course include some theory elements. This theoretical knowledge will refresh and build on what you’ve learned in all previous courses. Expect to gain a deeper knowledge of diving physics, decompression theory, dive related first aid, and the underwater environment.
The knowledge development includes self guided study from textbooks, videos, and e-learning, as well as classroom sessions and knowledge reviews discussed with your instructor and final exams.
You can already start with reading the theory as well as doing the knowledge reviews at home in your own time before travelling to the Gili Islands.
If you got through to this level without being able to swim, this is where the truth gets revealed.. 🙂
You will be required to complete an independent 15-minute water tread, a 400-meter swim, an 800-meter snorkel and a 100-meter tired diver tow. Each test will be scored based on time and/or performance.
We will also also perform a complete equipment exchange with a buddy. This means that you and your buddy will swap all elements of your scuba gear whilst both are sharing one regulator.
Skill Circuits and Rescue Assessment
One of the duties of a divemaster is to assist on courses alongside an instructor. To be able to do this, you’ll need to be able to demonstrate your skills to a very high standard. The skills include mask removal and replacement, regulator recovery, deep water entry, emergency air sharing, and many more.
You will be trained and ultimately tested on each of these skills in our beautiful divine training pool until you can perform them with ease, slowly and clearly.
You will also refresh your rescue skills and demonstrate that you can successfully rescue an unconscious diver, including towing whilst performing rescue breaths and removing their equipment.
Throughout the course you will continually practice and develop the skills required of a professional divemaster. Those skills include the following:
Some of what you learn as a divemaster trainee will be demonstrated in a workshop environment. These workshops will include dive professionals acting as new divers, to test your skills without putting uncertified divers at risk.
The workshops will include conducting discover dives in confined and open water, guiding certified divers, a scuba tune-up or refresher and supervising snorkelling activities.
This part will include assisting on a variety of courses, from brand new Open Water divers to Advanced courses. You will be expected to demonstrate the ability to help students overcome specific problems underwater.
Your diving instructor will help you to better understand the difference between your role and his/hers, but you will predominantly act as a role model for the students, and s a bridge between them and the instructor.
Once you have completed your dive master training with success, you will face the final and most challenging snorkel test. Just wait and see.. We are already looking forward to it!
Being the first professional level scuba certification, the divemaster course has more prerequisites than earlier courses. You will find those in the tab “prerequisites”. If you don’t qualify for Divemaster training with us on the Gilis, don’t worry. We have several options up out sleeve including the “Zero to Hero” approach.
Would you like to become a dive instructor? We are collaborating with Instructor Development Centers (IDC) both on the Gilis but also in other parts of this world such as Thailand, Egypt and the Maldives. Should you wish to become an instructor, please talk to us.
If booked in advance with a 50% deposit paid the Dive Master Course comes to a price of 15.200.000 IDR. If you would like to take advantage of this pre-booking discount please contact us directly per email. Please note, the deposit needs to arrive on our bank account before you arrive on the island, otherwise it is not a pre-booking discount. LOL
Plans change. We know that too. Our cancellation policy is flexible and we are trying our best to meet your holiday schedule and potential interruptions of it. If you book a course in advance but you are then unable to do it because you get sick, we will reimburse you of course minus the transaction details.
We can only send you the login details for the eLearning packages once you have paid the full course or a deposit in advance. In the (hopefully unlikely) event that you can’t start the course as planned, you will get of course more time to make it to the island and if even that isn’t going to happen, you will still have the theory and can use that at another dive center at a later stage in your life (within one year).
If you don’t have 40 dives to start your training, we can offer you a special price to do some more fun dives. That way you gain some more experience and you will also get to know the beautiful dive sites of the Gili Islands?
If you are a total beginner, join our “Zero to Hero” programs. Actually, it is not quite zero to hero, because we suggest that you do an Open Water course before committing to the 10-to-12-week package of becoming a DM (Divemaster) from scratch. Also, you cannot certified as a divemaster within 6 months of your open water certification.
Best is to contact us for all zero to hero option because they are very individual.
Unfortunately, this is not possible (unless you are an Indonesian citizen). First, you are not allowed to work in Indonesia without a work permit.
Also, we like to pay our instructors (who are also your mentors) for their superior work and offering free divemaster courses does not provide an income for them.
In addition, we have learned that the expenses for food and accommodation often exceed the costs for a (shorter) course.
Once you have completed your dive master training, we can however check the options for future employment.
Yes and No. We provide all equipment that you need for the course. We strongly suggest that you will get your own dive computer and your own SMB for the course though.
Yes! Once you have decided to become a divemaster with Divine Divers in Gili Meno, we can purchase the digital crewpack for you and you can start with studying the theory.
Postcard-like white sandy beaches, azure and year-round warm waters (28 to 29 degrees), the reef on your doorstep and a great lifestyle – does this sound like paradise to you? The Gilis offer superb diving year round. Green and hawksbill turtles are abundant. Reef sharks are frequently spotted and there is a broad range of marine life to be met on all dives. The dive sites are rarely more than a 10 to 15-minute boat ride away.
However, the Gilis are more than the diving. There is the relaxed Gili lifestyle for example. It seems to swallow up people and make them forget about busy cities, traffic jams, pollution.
Gili Meno is known for its relaxed and serene beauty away from the other two island’s. The smallest and quietest of the three Gilis, Meno arguably has the best beaches of the lot – imagine white sand scattered with palm trees, fringed with crystal clear water. Read more. Our location on Meno could not be any better. You find us at the most perfect sunset point on the island. What better way is there to end a perfect diving day in a place where the sky meets the ocean?
Overall: There is no better place for you’re your dive master course!
We love what we do and we do it well! Let us summarize a few points of why we think it is a good idea to choose Divine Divers on Gili Meno for any kind of course but for for your divemaster training in particular:
Instructors: Our instructors are very experienced and hand chosen for their personality and excellent teaching records. They are happy to share their knowledge and experience. In return we expect you to come with a positive attitude and an willingness to learn.
Be part of the Divine family: We don’t like crowds and we are not a dive factory. We care about people and we are not only interested in their money. We want you to take the most from your course and try to give you all the attention you need to become a great divemaster.
Ongoing support: Would you like to become an instructor? We have excellent relationships with IDC centers for both PADI and SSI and can help you to persuit your dream. Who knows – maybe we even have a job for you in the end?
