PADI DIVE MASTER

The Divemaster course at Scuba Point is the first professional level in the PADI system — the point where you shift from diver to guide, assisting instructors and leading certified divers on dives. Running out of the Costa Adeje base in south Tenerife, the programme uses the school's regular Atlantic dive sites for practical training, which means Divemaster candidates get real-world experience on the same routes used for paying excursion clients.

Scuba Point prices the Divemaster at €790 (€711 with the online discount). The school's small team — Marcos, Gonza, and Eliana — means Divemaster candidates work closely with experienced instructors rather than being passed between rotating staff. Marcos has 17 years of personal diving experience, and the school has been operating these Tenerife sites for four years. That combination gives candidates access to instructors who know the local conditions in detail.

The PADI Divemaster requires a Rescue Diver certification as a prerequisite, plus a minimum number of logged dives (per PADI standards). Scuba Point offers the full prerequisite course pathway — Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Rescue Diver — at the same base, making it possible to work through the entire recreational and early professional track at one centre in Tenerife. The school also runs specialty dive options in deep, wreck, and nitrox, which are areas relevant to a Divemaster working with varied certified diver groups.

Tenerife's south coast operates year-round, giving Divemaster candidates consistent access to open-water training conditions across all months. The Atlantic conditions here — green turtles, rays, octopus, moray eels, caves, and wrecks on various sites — provide good variety for the practical components of the programme. Upon completion, the PADI Divemaster certification is globally recognised and opens employment options at PADI dive centres worldwide.