All You Need To Know About the PADI Divemaster

[@leohogg1]

Nice to hear. I did my Divemaster internship in Croatia last summer. Last month passed my IE in the UK. Have a job offer in Croatia next summer.

[@OceanPancake]

Congratulations that's amazing!!!

[@krismoonpie]

I'm going to Thailand next month to start my Divemaster course, can't wait! Thanks for the info.

[@Luinito]

Hi Katt! Any chance you'll do a video on whats the difference between a Padi dive master from a Padi Master scuba diver? Have a great day! :)

[@RicherThanIeverbeen]

Awesome I'm going for this in a few months. Im still a beginner tho so it'll take some time

[@SAMedic776]

This is my next step so thanks for the insight.

[@OceanPancake]

That's so exciting! Where are you doing your divemaster?

[@SAMedic776]

@@OceanPancake I will be in San Antonio TX. My ultimate goal is to one day be an instructor but time will tell how that goes. Just one move at a time for now. Keep being you and have a great day!

[@zekegreenbaum2077]

Thanks! Looking forward to watching more videos, trios trees

[@johnsarangel]

just finished my Divemaster course. my instructor wanted me to do 100+ dives, not the minimum 60 dives which was good for me! and finished it for 3 months...

[@OceanPancake]

Thats great! So important to keep divin until you and your mentor think you are ready for the job!

[@Makdiver]

Cool - thanks for the tips ..

[@malapascua5183]

Hi my friend katt. How are you? That was a great vedio. Thank you. From Malapascua

[@DiveWithDev]

This was super helpful thank you !! About to start my training 😊

[@OceanPancake]

Good luck!! Let me know how it goes :)

[@DiveWithDev]

@@OceanPancake Thank you will do! :)

[@zekegreenbaum620]

36 train just came in-- know with braillance with 2 ver 2 and 3 don 4 5 =6 7 plus 2 point to the echo space and ull find in the same blank space one of my other favorite songs

[@zekegreenbaum620]

Right with a thourogh thought process ctv ( what is brilliant)

[@sorel456]

you answered exactly what I was wondering. Thank you

[@mauricesatzer9042]

You do a great job, really inspiring!

[@diveinstructordaniel1095]

Im gonna do it next year 😄

[@OceanPancake]

That will be exciting! Good luck

[@centralflorida1stamendment659]

been there did it done it and it was not that easy but completed it, then when on to getting my A.I

[@OceanPancake]

How are you enjoying your assistant instructor?

[@sirpatte]

Hello Cat Do you have the link to the Philipine place where your friend also did some enviromental parts also. Combination of the two will be great. // Patrik

[@OceanPancake]

Marine Conservation Philippines. www.marineconservationphilippines.org/

[@Eroczee]

Great video!

[@divingadventures121]

I’m in process of my DM, but with NAUI...not PADI.

[@OceanPancake]

That's fantastic! :) Are you enjoying it?

[@divingadventures121]

Yeah I am actually. It’s a very different way of thinking and surprisingly fulfilling.

[@OceanPancake]

@@divingadventures121 That's so fantastic! :) Yay

[@matthewholton2999]

Thanks for this Katt! Currently doing my DMT and this has helped out so much

[@OceanPancake]

That is so exciting!! How far into the course are you? I genuinely love teaching divemaster courses.

[@matthewholton2999]

Vegan Diver Katt I have my timed swims completed, equipment exchange completed, and all knowledge reviews! I’ve been a safety diver in CW 1-3 for a my dad ( currently and IDCS Instructor ) just waiting for the right time to do my skills circuit!

[@rebeccamoore8960]

I just completed my first try dive but I want to learn how to dive and I’m nervous

[@OceanPancake]

You will do amazing!

[@alle_namen_schon_vergeben708]

and? How was your course? :)

[@juli.medvlogs]

HI! I'm new to the diving world (just achieved my advanced open water course) and absolutely fell in love with it! Your channel is now one of my favourites! (and btw, where are your rings from? I find them super cool!) 💛👌🐬

[@AzulUnlimited]

Great video! Really like what you're sharing here. Nice to see like-minded divers sharing the conservation word

[@OceanPancake]

Thank you for checking it out! Greatly appreciate it.

[@lidorg5818]

May I know the place that your friend did the marine + DM internship in the Philippines, please ? :) thank you for all the information!

[@OceanPancake]

Sure! www.marineconservationphilippines.org/padi-courses/padi-divemaster/

[@alle_namen_schon_vergeben708]

The instructor I made every course with until now told me, that it would be good to do my divemaster in the baltic sea aswell because the conditions here worse than at the philipeans or at the red sea for example and that divebases would rather hire a divemaster from the baltic sea than a divemaster from the bahamas. Can you confirm that or did you made other experiences at the divebases you worked at or with the divemasters/instructors you worked with?

[@benheckendorn2696]

If i would do the divemaster, I would love to do it with you, because there is so much to learn from you, not just the needed skills, the relaxed way of diving, secoundly you take so much care about the ocean and the way how you dive with sharks, I believe even if someone would is afraid of sharks would lost his fear if they would dive with you. Sometimes it feels like you could speak sharkish: "Hey it's me Katt, could I joyn you? I would love to swim with you." I don't know but I saw it in so many videos how you act with them and they act with you. I guess now you know why I said, there's so much to learn from you. Ther is just one point: there are sharks which are more dangeous then others, so I believe there is sometimes a higher risk, so yes I blame those sharks, but just to blame the sharks wouldn't be fair. So I guess it's about 50:50. I don't know but, I know some sharks are very peaceful and some aren't. Maybe you could do a video about sharks, I believe you had enough experiance so, you know exactly which are more easy and which divers may should leave alone. I would love to know what you think about.

[@jonnieinbangkok]

Nice overview of becoming a Divemaster...the owner of a local shop here in Phuket wants me to step-up to this level as I have all the qualifications and almost 400 dives under my weight belt.

[@HellrazorDogsnDives]

HI Katt! I commented like 2 years ago, i been a sub since, i watch all ur videos, ur mad cute ;) .... Soo, I took courses with UTD, and now i dive DIR... and I see that you don't dive DIR. is there a reason for that? Have you tried the entry tec kit(BP/w, 7ft primary, specific location of DC, Tec safecty drills)? .... i have 100 times less experience than you for sure, no doubt, but... i feel much better using a DIR kit, over the 2 weird hose set-up. Cheers Happy and Safe Diving!

[@angelscheifler6061]

excelent video¡¡¡

[@aymanalhabash1990]

I am so proud to be padi divemaster😎😎😎

[@OceanPancake]

That's great! :) Where do you work?

[@aymanalhabash1990]

Vegan Diver Katt I work in Saudi Arabia ..red sea..

[@OceanPancake]

@@aymanalhabash1990 oh that would be amazing!

[@aymanalhabash1990]

Vegan Diver Katt yes I can say paradise under the sea 😁😁

[@sahanraj3755]

@@aymanalhabash1990 how to join there

[@latinpilot3]

Aloha, What is the best way to control and slow down breathing? Most times I’m the first one back on the boat w/ less than 400 psi.. A few times I’m I was able able to come back with 900 psi. Please advise. Thank you for your videos.

[@kikiqi7613]

Love your videos. So helpful and thorough.

[@Lionheart2323]

We did 15 minute tread with last 2 minutes no hands in the water. And do you do the equipment exchange in the pool or the ocean? 😎😎

[@OceanPancake]

Yeah! I had to do a 20 minute tread water with arms out of the water. The equipment exchange is typically part of the stress test, and depends completely based of where you do your divemaster. I had to do in the ocean in " pool" like conditions since we did not have a pool!

[@tonystark6949]

Vegan Diver Katt with Fins ?

[@tonystark6949]

The Treading Water

[@robbynatividad6857]

Hi Kath

[@catcher9919]

im taking divemaster course ,almost done ~

[@OceanPancake]

That's so exciting. Where are you doing it?

[@catcher9919]

Vegan Diver Katt in Malaysia -sabah ☺️☺️you should visit here it is a beautiful dive place

[@aymenem5304]

Synnax Gaming how is it im going for mine next week in flordia

[@KeiranS20]

Hi, can i start by saying your videos are brilliant! I'm looking at starting my padi open water course, however I wish to become a commercial diver, I thought it would be alot easier to start with scuba diving than commercial diving to understand the basics, would you know at what level do you think I should get to in my scuba diving before I transition to commercial diving?

[@harrisonmega7918]

All in all I'd say once you have your open water and have a feel for it you can transition to commercial diving. The reason I say so is because commercial diving is drastically different to recreational, if you go to a commercial diving school you start from the bottom up (and side note most commercial divers never dived before there commercial education) but practicing extremely different techniques to those learned in open water. Most commercial divers use helmets and land lines to breathe aka. no tanks, regs and bcd. You usually dive in really shitty places in bad conditions but most of this is taught in commercial diving. Im not a commercial diver so i can't provide much insight, but this is what I've gathered after talking to a few commercial divers.

[@KeiranS20]

@@harrisonmega7918 thank you for your advice, for me its wanting to get more time in the water before i make an investment into commercial diving and i understand that they usually use a hat to dive and are tethered via an umbilical that supplies their air, im just wanting to get a good foundation and then head out (bit difficult with the current situation of the world but all in good time) thanks again for your advice!

[@BarhomsKitchen]

Why Some Dive Centers Asking for 40 Log Dives Not 60 Dive As You say It Should Be A Worldwide Standard Right?

[@OceanPancake]

You need 40 to start the dive course, and 60 to finish

[@kangkaiqi]

Nice video!

[@mikeshardautoroadsideassis3049]

I got my open water in "97" yeah I'm old😅

[@OceanPancake]

Thats amazing!! Its never too late to dive.

[@diveinstructordaniel1095]

Katt I need your help please 🙌🏻 i want to do a divemaster/instructor internship do you have any advise or info ?

[@OceanPancake]

Im making a video about instructors soon!

[@diveinstructordaniel1095]

Vegan Diver Katt nice 🤙 thanks a lot

[@lucasfanning9049]

Hey ....Kat with a K I'm guessing! Thanks so much for that video intro to the PADI Divemaster Internship etc, really straight to the point and informative. I do have quite a few questions as I'm keen to do the course but worried I have lost my log book and all formal records of my diving history other than the Open Water + Adv Open Water which would be on PADI's files I presume. Is there any way of backtracking dives to log them? I know where and when they were (mostly) and I'm close to 45...did about 20 on a liveaboard in Galapagos and used to work for a dive travel company here in Australia. Did my Open water when I was 15 but now a tad older ;-) Career change is beckoning. Cheers, Lucas \m/

[@krismoonpie]

Hey sorry to hear about your lost logbook, hope you can get that worked out. When you do work it out you should consider getting a digital logbook too so that you don't have this problem again. I use MacDive which has an iOs app as well as a desktop app that all sync together via the cloud. When I first got the app I went through my logbooks and entered the dives one by one and took a picture of each page in the dive entry I made so there was more evidence. But now I just let my dive computer do the log and then sync it with MacDive automatically. No more writing! You might want to add some details to a dive but most of the important stuff is automatically done for you by the dive computer and MacDive supports a ton of dive computers. There are other dive log programs out there too, and whichever dive computer you end up using will probably have it's own, but I've a good experience with this one as it works with many different dive computers and syncs with my computer, iPad, iPhone etc. So I have my logbook on me wherever I go! Good luck!

[@sitavegbusiness8573]

6 months to get a Divemaster degree?

[@scubadivingrickydamiano]

Hi Katt I just wanted to say that I didn't go to the pumpkin carving at white star quarry this month because I didn't feel like I was ready I need to get my buoyancy down before I can do that also I will be going for my open water course soon is there any advice you can give me before I go to my open water course am all ready a scuba diver am just adding the open water certification to it.

[@OceanPancake]

Just take it day by day and remember that you will be improving on every dive!

[@Bearpilot_01]

Can you have a career in diving if your politics are right of centre? I'm considering doing my DM and IDC, but I am very socially conservative.

[@MadMax31577]

Where's U of Q?

[@caseyrayls6234]

The treading water is not 20 min. , at least in 2024.

[@chandimalpeiris8767]

so swit . I love you madam ❤

[@ahmedlatigui3274]

You speak fast take your time

[@MrOvidiuk]

60 log dive for DM but over 100 for solo diver. Funny is that need more dive to be able to dive alone that to be responsible for other people life...strange. DM course is a SCAM. What are you talking there has nothing with DM, is more with train your own staff, like other companies do. And to do that you don’t need to be a DM, is more a dive guide. Personally experience i start DM course and i quit, very boring for me and I prefer to do tech dive and solo dive.

[@OceanPancake]

Hi! Thanks for the comment and the insight. Divemasters are not responsible for other peoples lives per say, since they are mostly given the tasks to lead certified divers and be an assistant to an instructor. Instructors require 100 dives, but they also have to pass stringent two day tests. I beleive that the things I have mentioned should (and often are) incorporated into the DM, however it varies greatly depending on where you are. Where did you attempt to do the divemaster? Some people rather do tech diving and solo diving, as it is a completely different type of challenge!

[@MrOvidiuk]

Vegan Diver Katt sorry, but are responsible. A bad planing or a bad decision can put life of entire group in danger. One example is what happens in Bali few years ago when they dive to Cristal bay and and 9 japenese dicers was catch by a strong current and they remain isolated on a rock for few days. Also, to make an analogy think about companies that bring people to climb Everest. As long you pay they don’t care and unfortunately a lot of them die. Same like here, a lot of DM has only 60 dives and take the licence very easy only because they can have a discount when they dive in some resorts. In my opinion a DM must have at least 200 dives and minimum 50 deco dive al done in less that 2 years without dives that are included in curses before start the training.

[@aymenem5304]

Ovidiu Kilingher im going for mine soon Do you think it’s not worth it ?

[@OceanPancake]

@@aymenem5304 You should definitely do it! It's so much fun

[@tonystark6949]

Ovidiu Kilingher 100 for solo diver ? I don’t understand- who dives alone ?

[@roelofco]

I would honestly ask you out for a steak dinner if I had the chance, but that might be awkward... considering... you know...

[@SimonAmazingClarke]

Vegan, not interested