The Master Scuba Diver Programme

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The PADI Master Scuba Diver ProgrammewithDiverC
ity

• The Black Belt of Scuba Diving
• Expand and enhance your scuba skills and
  knowledge
• Become one of the privileged
• Highest level a diver can reach
• Denotes Superior achievement and proficiency

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Requirements

• PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
• PADI Rescue Diver
• Any 5 PADI Specialty ratings
• Proof of 50 Logged dives
• A sense of adventure, exploration,
• excitement and a passion for diving

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Which Speciality?
Deep Diver, Equipment Specialist, Night Diver,
Research Diver, Search and Recovery Diver,
Underwater Navigator, Underwater Photographer,
Wreck Diver, Boat Diver, Drift Diver, Dry Suit
Diver, Multilevel Diver, Underwater Naturalist,
Peak Performance Buoyancy, Distinctive
Specialist (varied).

• Its entirely up to you. If you dive mainly in
  the UK we recommend the Brit 5
• Deep, Wreck, Dry-Suit, Enriched Air Navigation

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PADI recommends that you

• Try out the most popular
  
• specialty diving activities
• Increase your underwater
• experiences
• Explore new environments

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A Few Facts signing on, timeand popular
specialities .

• Chat to a DiverCity Instructor, a diving
  education specialist, they will advise you how
  to embark on this programme
• Completion can take anything from several weeks
  to several years. You will decide the pace of
  your Master Scuba Diver programme
• Many divers choose to complete the 50 dives and
  several speciality courses on one of the
  DiverCity trips.
• Which is the most popular speciality
  course? the one that appeals to you!

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Start today with Discover Enriched
Air Nitrox

• Course Overview
• Can be run during the Open Water Diver Course or
  any other.
• Knowledge Development
• Enriched Air Dive Planning
• Care for Equipment
• Hazard Management
• Use and application of Enriched Air
• Course Completion allows.
• You to dive on a 32 O² mix within the no-stop
  limit of the air RDP or air based computer
• Max 30m/100ft
• Indirect Supervision of DiverCity Professional
  who is Enriched Air Certified.
• Please note that you will be required to purchase
  a manual for this programme as it can be used for
  future reference and full certification

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Rescue Diver

• Course Overview
• Crucial step in expanding knowledge and
  experience beyond recreational level.
• Rescue divers learn to look after themselves and
  to consider safety well being of other divers.
• Training prepares you to prevent problems and if
  necessary, manage dive emergencies using a
  variety of techniques.
• Five knowledge development sessions
• Rescue skills
• Practical rescue scenarios
• Exam with 50 questions
• Curriculum is performance based.

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Enriched Air Diver

• Overview
• Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
  problems and hazards of enriched air diving
• Analyse Enriched Air Cylinders content
• Extend your no-stop limits beyond the normal
  limits of diving with air
• Learn what colour coding, stickers and tags
  Enriched Air cylinders should have
• Risk factors when diving with Enriched air -
  Nitrox

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Deep Diver

• Overview
• Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
  problems and hazards of deep diving
• Risk factors and decompression-tables review
• Safety stops and emergency decompression
  procedures
• Special equipment, decent lines and
  buoyancy-control considerations
• Procedures for flying after diving and high
  altitude
• Orientation to recompression chambers

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Wreck Diver

• Overview
• Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
  problems and hazards of wreck diving
• The preparation and use of lights, air supplies,
  special equipment, penetration lines and reels
• Limited visibility diving techniques and
  emergency procedures

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Underwater Navigator

• Overview
• Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
  problems and hazards of underwater navigation
• Methods of estimating distance underwater
• Natural navigation techniques
• Using underwater patterns
• Dive site relocation techniques
• Compass navigation techniques

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Underwater Search and Recovery

• Overview
• Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
  problems and hazards of underwater search and
  recovery diving
• Limited visibility diving and underwater
  navigation techniques
• Proper techniques and safety considerations for
  object location, including the use of various
  search patterns, lines and reels
• Proper technique and safety considerations for
  recovery of
• objects using various lifting
• devices

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Night Diver

• Overview
• Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
  problems and hazards of night diving
• Proper procedures for buoyancy control,
  navigation and communication
• Use of dive lights and buddy-system techniques
• Disorientation
• Emergency procedures
• Orientation to nocturnal aquatic life

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Dry Suit Diver

• Overview
• Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
  problems and hazards of dry suit diving
• Proper procedures for buoyancy control
• Ascent and decent technique training
• Routine, user-level, preventative maintenance and
  performance checks on dry suits

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Underwater Photographer

• Overview
• The planning, organisation, procedures,
  techniques, problems and hazards of underwater
  photography diving
• Photographic principles, composition, film types,
  flash/available light photography and camera
  handling techniques
• The preparation, care and maintenance of
  photographic equipment

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Equipment Specialist Course

• Overview
• Theory, principles and operation of diving
  equipment
• Routine, recommended care maintenance
  procedures and equipment storage
• Common problems with equipment and recommended
  professional maintenance procedures
• Simple suggestions for comfortable equipment
  configurations and an
• introduction to new
• equipment

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Boat Diver Course

• Overview
• Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
  problems and boat diving hazards
• Boat Diving etiquette storage of personal
  equipment, personal conduct and considerations
  for care of the boat.
• Basic common boat diving terminology
• Specific Boat Diving Laws and/or ordinances
• Overview of emergency/safety equipment needed
  on-board private diving vessels

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Drift Diver Course

• Overview
• Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
  problems and hazards of drift diving
• Special equipment, floats, lines and reels
• Proper procedures for buoyancy-control,
  navigation and communication.
• Site selection and overview of aquatic currents
  causes and effects.
• Techniques for staying close to a buddy or
  together as a group.

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Underwater Naturalist Course

• Overview
• Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
  problems and hazards of diving in different
  aquatic environments
• A basic overview of major aquatic life groupings
  (kingdoms and phyla)
• Factual information to dispel myths about
  potentially dangerous aquatic life
• An overview of basic aquatic life interactions
  and associations
• Responsible human interaction with aquatic life
• Diving techniques used to help preserve bottom
  dwelling aquatic life and minimize aquatic life
  disturbances

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Peak Performance Buoyancy Course

• Overview
• Peak Performance Buoyancy fundamentals
• Use of PADIs Basic Weighting Guidelines
• An opportunity to polish buoyancy control beyond
  the Open Water Diver level

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Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV) Course

• Overview
• Planning, organisation, procedures, techniques,
  problems and hazards of diving with a underwater
  propulsion vehicle
• Equipment considerations including but not
  limited to, battery care, maintenance and
  precautions
• Procedures for determining a turnaround point,
  vehicle failure, runaway motor, descents
  ascents and avoiding propeller entanglement
• Techniques for avoiding harming fragile aquatic
  life.
• Techniques for entering and
• exiting the water with a DPV

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• Increase your diving experience, fun and explore
  new environments. Contact DiverCity today.