PADI Divemaster Course — Hurghada

Divemaster is where diving stops being a hobby and becomes a profession. As the first rating on the PADI professional ladder, it qualifies you to work in the dive industry worldwide: guiding certified divers, assisting instructors with students, supervising dive activities and conducting certain programmes independently. This course delivers the full programme over an intensive 10-12 days of real working experience on Red Sea dive boats.

The training has three strands that run in parallel. Dive theory takes your knowledge to instructor-track depth — physics, physiology, decompression theory, equipment and the recreational dive planner, with exams in each area. Waterskills develop your personal capability through timed swims, a rescue assessment and a demonstration-quality performance of the core skill circuit. And the practical strand is the heart of it: mapping a dive site, briefing and leading certified divers, assisting real courses with real students under instructor supervision, and learning boat and dive-deck logistics from the inside.

Prerequisites: minimum age 18, PADI Rescue Diver (or equivalent), EFR primary and secondary care within 24 months, a physician-signed dive medical dated within the last year, and at least 40 logged dives to start — you will need 60 to certify, and the course itself takes you well past that. The fee includes tuition, the required PADI materials and application fees, daily lunches and drinks on board, and transfers within Hurghada; personal equipment (rentable at €15 per day), marine park fees and accommodation are excluded. Graduates leave with the certification, a packed logbook and genuine working experience on a professional dive deck — the exact foundation the Assistant Instructor and Instructor Development Course build on.