Dive Master/ Master Diver

[Matt P]

One major difference in the PADI vs NAUI Master Diver is that NAUI requires other evaluation & training beyond the AOW, Rescue & handful of specialties. PADI's Master Diver is simply another card which you can purchase with no other training or skill evaluation once you have AOW, specialties & rescue.

[DivingCRNA]

Originally Posted by JugglingMonkeys

And then you get it?

or do you have to do another (Master Diver) course?

I have been working on my divemaster book work. I read if you are a "Master Diver" that when you become an instructor you are immediately a Specialty instructor.

So, there is some benefit to holding the PADI Master Diver card. To think, I just got it to tease a friend who does not have theirs...

[ReefHound]

Originally Posted by DivingCRNA

I have been working on my divemaster book work. I read if you are a "Master Diver" that when you become an instructor you are immediately a Specialty instructor.

So, there is some benefit to holding the PADI Master Diver card. To think, I just got it to tease a friend who does not have theirs...

Not quite true. You have to gain a certain amount of experience within a specialty in order to teach it (I don't know the precise details, like everything else "it's in the PADI Instructor Manual"). Taking a specialty class counts towards that experience. But I don't believe it fully satisfies the requirements and it only applies to the specialties you have taken, MSD or no MSD. The MSD card itself means nothing.

[DivingCRNA]

Originally Posted by ReefHound

Not quite true. You have to gain a certain amount of experience within a specialty in order to teach it (I don't know the precise details, like everything else "it's in the PADI Instructor Manual"). Taking a specialty class counts towards that experience. But I don't believe it fully satisfies the requirements and it only applies to the specialties you have taken, MSD or no MSD. The MSD card itself means nothing.

I was sure I read that, but cannot find it now. I must still be jet lagged...

[ReefHound]

Well, just think about it logically. All a MSD card means is that you completed 5 specialties out of 20 or so specialties available. How would that card qualify one to teach something they maybe hadn't even done?

[MSilvia]

Originally Posted by NitroWill

Masterdiver is the highest NON LEADERSHIP certification you can obtain.

It would be more accurate to say that it's the highest non-leadership certification offered by PADI and NAUI. I would argue that there are many non-professional certifications that extend your capabilities as a diver far beyond what a master diver would be able to do safely.

Basic decompression and advanced nitrox training is just the tip of the iceberg that lies beyond... or beside I suppose, as Master Diver isn't a prerequisite for any higher levels training that I'm aware of.

[JugglingMonkeys]

Originally Posted by Matt P

One major difference in the PADI vs NAUI Master Diver is that NAUI requires other evaluation & training beyond the AOW, Rescue & handful of specialties. PADI's Master Diver is simply another card which you can purchase with no other training or skill evaluation once you have AOW, specialties & rescue.

So with PADI, there is no special "master diver course."?

You just get it by buying the card once you've done the other stuff...

correct?

[Mycroft]

SSI also has a Master Diver course. The requirements are 5 specialties (of which one must be Stress and Rescue) and 50 logged dives. AOW is 4 specialties (any) and 25 logged dives. Specialty diver is any 2 specialties and 12 logged dives. Since Divemaster requires Stress and Rescue as well, that is kinda a given on the way to Dive Master.

[armyscubaguy]

I am just beginning my Master Dive course, can anyone tell me what the test is like, my instructor said it was a fairly hard test and goes in depth, based on what I've read so far it is an in-depth review of everything you have learned up to this pont? Any help would be appreciated.

[digitalman]

I'm almost finished with my PADI MD requirements....will take the NAUI MD course next spring.