The PADI Divemaster course is your first step toward a professional diving career, where every day in the water brings new experiences, new people, and new adventures.
During your Divemaster training or internship , you’ll become part of our team, assisting instructors and student divers, organizing dive trips, and helping customers to enjoy their time underwater. You will learn what it is like to work in a diving center, and build experience and confidence in your own diving skills.
Your Divemaster course includes workshops, and practical exercises that prepare you to handle challenges, guide divers, and plan dive activities safely and professionally.
By the end of the course, you’ll be a stronger, more confident diver, and — you’ll be a PADI professional, ready to share your passion for the ocean and start your diving career.
PADI Divemaster course
Why choose us
If you are taking the first step to become a professional scuba diver, the PADI Divemaster course, Moalboal is a wonderful place to do it! Moalboal, or to be precise, Panagsama Beach is a wonderful place to spend a few weeks. You will get to know the Philippinos and their culture when living among the locals. Panagsama is a bustling diving destination so it’s very easy to meet other divers and make friends.
Of course, you will be in the water almost every day! During your Divemaster course, you will get an opportunity to learn from our experienced instructors. You will spend time with customers, do lots of diving and you will become a scuba diving professional!
Best of all, we have some great deals that include accomodation and unlimited diving!
So what jobs can you expect to do as a qualified PADI Divemaster? There’s a lot!
Guiding
Main duties as Divemaster will be to supervise and guide certified divers. This is actually much more than swimming around and pointing at fish!!
In your Divemaster course you will learn all it takes to assure that your customers have an enjoyable diving experience; organizing equipment, choosing your dive site and planning your dive, anticipating and avoiding potential problems, etc.
Assisting with courses
As a qualified PADI Divemaster you can also assist Instructors in conducting dive courses of all levels. This can be a very useful and rewarding job. You can assist your Instructor by helping students to overcome learning difficulties and supervising students (that are taking their first breaths under water) when they are not under the immediate Instructors attention.
Being a PADI Divemaster allows you to apply to become a DSD Leader. A DSD Leader can take ‘Discover Scuba Diving’ participants in the pool or confined water, after a brief explanation of the basic diving knowledge. This allows you to take people in shallow water, let them practice their first breaths with scuba equipment and teach them the first basic diving skills like regulator clearing and mask clearing.
Teaching
There are also some PADI courses that you can teach as a Divemaster. For instance, a PADI Divemaster is allowed to teach all (AWARE) courses without dives. After completing the appropriate Specialty Instructor course a PADI Divemaster is also allowed to teach the Digital Underwater Photography course.
If a diver has not been active for a long time and wants to do the PADI Reactivate Program, that can also be taught by a PADI Divemaster.
What you need to be prior to joining the PADI Divemaster course
Be a certified PADI Rescue Diver or have an equivalent rating. (If equivalent candidate must submit proof of CPR and first aid training within the past 24 months.) * Have completed and logged at least 40 dives as documented by the individual’s personal logbook. Note: at least 60 dives are required to complete the program and we offer UNLIMITED DIVING. * Be at least 18 years old at the start of training. * Submit medical clearance for diving signed by a physician, attesting to fitness to dive.
Dive Theory and Skills
- Complete the theory section of the PADI Divemaster course (online).
- Take the Divemaster theory exam (online).
- Make an Emergency Assistance Plan for a dive site.
- Complete swimming and stamina exercises and reach a combined minimum score.
- Complete a diver rescue skills assessment.
- Complete a dive skills workshop where you will learn to demonstrate all skills from the PADI Open Water Course to student divers.
Practical Application
- Dive Site Set Up and Management
- Mapping a dive site
- Give a dive briefing
- Practice a search and recovery scenario
- Practice a deep dive scenario
Workshops for PADI programs
- Reactivate
- Skin Diver course and snorkeling supervision
- Discover Scuba Diving Program in Confined Water
- Discover Scuba Diving Program – Additional Open Water Dive
- Guiding certified divers in Open Water
Assisting Instructors
- Open Water Diver Students in Confined Water
- Open Water Diver Students in Open Water
- Continuing Education Student Divers in Open Water
- Certified Divers in Open Water
No more time in the classroom
With PADI Divemaster online you can begin studying at home. At your own pace, you can work through the interactive sections of the Divemaster theory.
The PADI Divemaster online also includes the Divemaster theory exams. Once you completed all online sections and the exams, you can focus on the practical part of your Divemaster training and don’t need to spend time in the classroom.
You can view the Divemaster online material using a desktop or laptop computer or you can download it for offline viewing when using a tablet or phone.
We can send you the first chapter of the Divemaster online learning for free! Just send us a message and ask for the “intro to Divemaster online”.
Divemaster Theory
The PADI Divemaster course teaches you to be a leader and take charge of dive activities. The Divemaster theory prepares you for the practical exercises and workshops in the course. Topics include:
- The role and characteristics of the PADI Divemaster
- Supervising dive activities and assisting with student divers
- Diver safety and risk management
- Divemaster conducted programs and specialized skills
- Business of diving and your career
- Awareness of the dive environment
- IDC Dive Theory review
Interested to see how our online classroom works? You can have preview here and read our dive theory summary and make practice exams.
Ready to start your adventure as a dive professional?
Get in touch and we’ll show you how to become a PADI Divemaster.
Neptune IDC Schedule 2026.
IDC Prep March 3.
IDC March 6.
IE March 17-18. (Cebu city)
MSDT March 20.
IDC Prep May 4.
IDC May 7.
IE May 17-18. (Moalboal)
MSDT May 19.
IDC Prep September 2.
IDC September 5.
IE September 15-16. (Moalboal)
MSDT September 17.
IDC Prep November 24.
IDC November 27.
IE December 7-8. (Moalboal)
MSDT December 9.
Divemaster Course
- Divemaster 2-4 weeks: 50000 Peso.
- Divemaster 2 month: 60000 Peso.
- Divemaster 3 months: 70000 Peso.
OPEN WATER TO DIVEMASTER COURSE: PHP 99.995
- Open Water Diver Course
- Advanced Open Water Diver Course
- Rescue Diver Course
- Emergency First Response Course
- Divemaster Course
ADVANCED OPEN WATER TO DIVEMASTER COURSE: PHP 79.995
- Advanced Open Water Diver Course
- Rescue Diver Course
- Emergency First Response Course
- Divemaster Course
RESCUE TO DIVEMASTER COURSE: PHP 69.995
- Rescue Diver Course
- Emergency First Response Course
- Divemaster Course
PADI fees 2026
Divemaster Application Fee (incl. first year membership): AUD$ 302.50
Divemaster Yearly Membership (automatic renewal rate): AUD$ 306.50
Equipment rental, crew pack purchase and PADI Application fees are mandadory BUT NOT INCLUDED in the course price
EQUIPMENT RENTAL
Full rental gear is included during the Open Water Diver, Advanced Open Water Diver and Rescue Diver Courses.
For the Divemaster and Instructor course portions, all candidates are required to have their own personal dive equipment.
If you do not have your own gear, you may rent a full set from Neptune Diving Resort Philippines at the following rates:
Divemaster Course:
- PHP 5.000.00 for 14 days
- PHP 500.00 per day
Divemaster candidates must participate in at least:
- One PADI Open Water Diver course confined water session.
- Four additional confined water training sessions from any PADI course or program.
- One PADI Open Water Diver course open water training dive.
- One PADI Adventures in Diving, Rescue Diver or PADI Specialty Diver course open water training session.
- Three additional open water training dives from any PADI course or program.
- One supervisory situation with certified divers not in a formal course.
We state the very least requirements but here in our Philippines divemaster internship extensive experience shall be gained in all areas.
Next Dive Course: IDC – Instructor Development Course.
Please send email to moalboal@neptunediving.com
