Course overview

Become a PADI Divemaster in Bohol Panglao and earn your first professional rating, qualified to guide certified divers and assist on courses. You work from Alona Beach with regular trips to Balicasag and Pamilacan Islands, building real leadership experience on the Philippines' walls and reefs as you sharpen the demonstration-quality skills the rating demands.

What you’ll learn

Prerequisites

What's included · What's not

Included
  • PADI Divemaster knowledge development and dive-theory exams
  • Demonstration-quality skill assessment of all 24 scuba skills
  • Stamina and water-skills evaluations including the tired-diver tow
  • Practical workshops, mapping project and internship dives
  • Real-world experience assisting on courses and guiding fun dives
  • PADI Divemaster crew-pak, logbook and professional certification
Not included
  • Flights and airport transfers
  • Accommodation
  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenses
  • Gratuities

The PADI Divemaster pathway

The PADI Divemaster is your first professional certification and the prerequisite for instructor training. Once certified you can guide certified divers, assist instructors and run select PADI programmes, and the rating renews annually as a teaching-status member.

Where you'll dive in Bohol Panglao

Internship dives range across Panglao's house reefs at Doljo and Napaling and the deeper walls of Balicasag Island Marine Sanctuary and Pamilacan, where turtles and schooling fish make good settings for guiding practice. Warm 27-29C water and easy December-to-May conditions support the extended in-water time the rating requires.

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Not included? Sort the rest of your trip

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Getting there

Fly into Bohol (TAG) · 7-8 hours from India.

Where to stay

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