Dive Leader
Dive Leader
The Dive Leader level is the highest in recreational diving and the steppingstone towards becoming a diving instructor. As certified Dive Leader you are qualified to dive with beginners. As such you do take a considerable amount of responsibility and act as link between the diving instructor and the student.
Prerequisites
• Master Diver or CMAS** certification
• be at least 18 years old
• a valid medical statement of fitness for diving
• have 65 logged dives (log book!) of which at least 10 have to be up to depth of 30 m to 40 m
• deep diving specialty
• diving security and rescue specialty
• night diving specialty
• first aid or CPR/O2/AED certification
Academic (theoretical) training
• Repetition/consolidation of the CMAS** or Master Diver knowledge
• Relevant diving laws and regulations
• Diving equipment
• Physics of diving
• Diving medicine
• Psychological aspects of diving
• Dive planning and management
• Assessment of the environmental/situational conditions
• Diving with inexperienced divers
• Environment/nature
Practical training
• 60 sec. breath hold (static), 45 m distance diving (dynamic), 10 m deep dive (CWT)
• Snorkeling for 60 min covering a distance of at least 1500 m
• Snorkeling a distance of 150 m followed by a dive to a depth of 7,5 m to a waiting scuba diver which needs to be transported (lifted) to the surface
• Secure (tying) a rope in 5m depth
• Group management with beginners
• Speed controlled ascent without fins
• Safe completion of a dive with one’s octopus used by a second diver
• Set and recovery of a Boje
• Diving a defined compass course
• Night diving
• First aid in conjunction with accidents on water