2026 DIVEMASTER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
RATED A+
✔✔List the four aspects of supervision in managing dives and identify what each
consists of. - ✔✔Planning-make/act on dive plan
Communication-inform divers
Vantage point-choose where to supervise
Recognition-anticipate problems
✔✔list 8 types of equipment that can assist in supervising certified divers - ✔✔1.
Clipboard and dive roster
2. Binoculars
3. Dive site map
4.Emergency oxygen and first aid kit
5. Rescue float or life ring
6. marine radio or cellular phone
7. Tool kit and spare equipment
8. Dive specific equipment
✔✔list 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages of in water supervision - ✔✔Advantages:
Close to divers & guide divers and point out aquatic life.
Disadvantages: Only watch one group & limits ability to explore independently.
✔✔list 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages of out of water supervision - ✔✔Advantages:
Close to emergency-related equipment & give buddies more individual options
Disadvantages: Can't remind divers of procedures & unable to show points of interests.
✔✔List the 10 points a dive briefing usually includes - ✔✔1. Dive site name
2. Dive site description
3. Your role
4. Entry & exit techniques
5. Dive procedures
6. Emergency procedures
, 7. Signal review
8. Roster/buddy check
9. Environmental orientation
10. Pre-dive safety check
✔✔list 3 ways you can prepare to handle novel problems at a dive site - ✔✔1. increase
your knowledge, skill & experience
2. Pay attention to steps required to deal with familiar and unfamiliar situations
3. Gather physical resources
✔✔It is important to include an environmental orientation in dive briefings because it
helps divers dive so that they minimize effects to the environment and familiarizes those
with little or no experience with the specifics of the environment. - ✔✔True
✔✔To help divers interact responsibly with the environment, you should suggest that
they... - ✔✔1. Dive carefully to protect the ecosystem
2. Secure gauges or alternate air sources so they don't drag and damage aquatic life.
3. Respect underwater life and be a role model for others
✔✔you develop good judgment through _________________. When making decisions
that involve doubt, or when making decisions in areas with which you have less
experience, err on the ____________________ side. - ✔✔experience, conservative
✔✔You're leading a group on a 40 foot charter dive boat. The captain tells you that
water is rising slowly in the bilge. Theres no imminent danger , because the bilge pumps
are keeping up with it, but action is required. Following the problem-solving steps, you
and the captain examine below the decks and discover that a cooling hose leading
outboard has ruptured. What would you do next? - ✔✔1. Create several possible
solutions.
2. Choose the best and devote energy to the solution.
3. Assess and revise the solution as you go.
✔✔When managing an emergency situation, when delegating tasks one advantage you
have as a divemaster is that... - ✔✔people expect you to take charge, and will do what
you ask if able.
✔✔As a PADI Divemaster assisting in training, your primary role is handling
______________________ and assisting with student diver
____________________________. - ✔✔logistics, supervision
✔✔Of the following, your functions may include... - ✔✔1. supervising the pre-dive
equipment distribution to student divers, post dive equipment collection, and handling
equipment difficulties.
2. supervising student divers not immediately watched by the instructor
RATED A+
✔✔List the four aspects of supervision in managing dives and identify what each
consists of. - ✔✔Planning-make/act on dive plan
Communication-inform divers
Vantage point-choose where to supervise
Recognition-anticipate problems
✔✔list 8 types of equipment that can assist in supervising certified divers - ✔✔1.
Clipboard and dive roster
2. Binoculars
3. Dive site map
4.Emergency oxygen and first aid kit
5. Rescue float or life ring
6. marine radio or cellular phone
7. Tool kit and spare equipment
8. Dive specific equipment
✔✔list 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages of in water supervision - ✔✔Advantages:
Close to divers & guide divers and point out aquatic life.
Disadvantages: Only watch one group & limits ability to explore independently.
✔✔list 2 advantages and 2 disadvantages of out of water supervision - ✔✔Advantages:
Close to emergency-related equipment & give buddies more individual options
Disadvantages: Can't remind divers of procedures & unable to show points of interests.
✔✔List the 10 points a dive briefing usually includes - ✔✔1. Dive site name
2. Dive site description
3. Your role
4. Entry & exit techniques
5. Dive procedures
6. Emergency procedures
, 7. Signal review
8. Roster/buddy check
9. Environmental orientation
10. Pre-dive safety check
✔✔list 3 ways you can prepare to handle novel problems at a dive site - ✔✔1. increase
your knowledge, skill & experience
2. Pay attention to steps required to deal with familiar and unfamiliar situations
3. Gather physical resources
✔✔It is important to include an environmental orientation in dive briefings because it
helps divers dive so that they minimize effects to the environment and familiarizes those
with little or no experience with the specifics of the environment. - ✔✔True
✔✔To help divers interact responsibly with the environment, you should suggest that
they... - ✔✔1. Dive carefully to protect the ecosystem
2. Secure gauges or alternate air sources so they don't drag and damage aquatic life.
3. Respect underwater life and be a role model for others
✔✔you develop good judgment through _________________. When making decisions
that involve doubt, or when making decisions in areas with which you have less
experience, err on the ____________________ side. - ✔✔experience, conservative
✔✔You're leading a group on a 40 foot charter dive boat. The captain tells you that
water is rising slowly in the bilge. Theres no imminent danger , because the bilge pumps
are keeping up with it, but action is required. Following the problem-solving steps, you
and the captain examine below the decks and discover that a cooling hose leading
outboard has ruptured. What would you do next? - ✔✔1. Create several possible
solutions.
2. Choose the best and devote energy to the solution.
3. Assess and revise the solution as you go.
✔✔When managing an emergency situation, when delegating tasks one advantage you
have as a divemaster is that... - ✔✔people expect you to take charge, and will do what
you ask if able.
✔✔As a PADI Divemaster assisting in training, your primary role is handling
______________________ and assisting with student diver
____________________________. - ✔✔logistics, supervision
✔✔Of the following, your functions may include... - ✔✔1. supervising the pre-dive
equipment distribution to student divers, post dive equipment collection, and handling
equipment difficulties.
2. supervising student divers not immediately watched by the instructor
