2026 DIVEMASTER PAPER ACTUAL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Six characteristics of responsible diver behavior are: - ✔✔1. Planning dives within
limits of training and experience for diver and buddy and staying within those limits
during the dive
2. Being properly equipped with all the dive gear generally accepted as required for a
dive
3. Maintaining equipment properly and checking it before diving
4. Checking air supply frequently, managing it during the dive and ending each dive with
an appropriate reserve
5. Staying well within no stop limits, making safety stops and following safe diving
practices
6. Diving in an environmentally sensitive manner, and avoiding contact with sensitive
aquatic life, following Project AWARE's 10 Ways a Diver Can Protect the Underwater
environment
✔✔List four ways to encourage responsible diver behavior. - ✔✔1. Be a good role
model
2. During briefing put responsible behavior in context
3. Make it easier (Float hanging at safety stop)
4. Reward responsible behavior and skills, perhaps by compliments
✔✔Describe the aspects of diving that do and do not fall within the divemaster's
responsibility, and the aspects of dive planning and diving that each diver must retain
responsibility for. - ✔✔DIVEMASTER:
1. Evaluating dive conditions
2. Preparing for emergencies
3. Orienting divers to the site
DIVERS:
1. Planning dives themselves within their limits
2. Following their individual dive plans
, ✔✔Describe how to assess general dive conditions, and how you can expect conditions
to affect diving. - ✔✔WEATHER:
Winds can cause waves, surf, surge, currents
Water movement can also reduce visibility as can rain runoff
Temperature can have effects pre/post and during dive
TIDES & CURRENTS:
Affects visibility, temperature and choice of technique
VISIBILITY:
Plankton blooms and silty bottoms
Time of dive can effect the daylight penetration
Experience of both diving and the particular site
✔✔The four aspects of supervision in managing dives are: - ✔✔1. Preparation
2. Communication
3. Recognition
4. Vantage point
✔✔List and describe the advantages of in-water vs. out-of-water supervision, and the
advantages and disadvantages of supervision vantage point in-water vs. out-of-water. -
✔✔SUPERVISION:
In-Water Advantages: You are close to divers so you can respond quickly, can reduce
some problems by spotting them before they occur, can also guide to specific points of
interest
In-Water Disadvantages: You can only watch one group and therefore need everyone to
stay together
Out-of-Water Advantages: Can supervise multiple groups, you are closer to the
emergency equipment (radio), offer the group more flexibility
Out-of-Water Disadvantages: You are not immediately at hand therefore you can advise
and lead
VANTAGE POINTS:
In-Water: Can be on hand easily but may not be able to see much
Out-of-Water: Elevated view means that you can see more but it may take longer to
respond
✔✔List eight types of equipment that can assist in supervising certified divers. - ✔✔1.
Clipboard and dive roster
2. Binoculars
3. Dive site maps
4. Surface maps
5. Nautical charts
6. Tool kit
7. Radio/Cell phone
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Six characteristics of responsible diver behavior are: - ✔✔1. Planning dives within
limits of training and experience for diver and buddy and staying within those limits
during the dive
2. Being properly equipped with all the dive gear generally accepted as required for a
dive
3. Maintaining equipment properly and checking it before diving
4. Checking air supply frequently, managing it during the dive and ending each dive with
an appropriate reserve
5. Staying well within no stop limits, making safety stops and following safe diving
practices
6. Diving in an environmentally sensitive manner, and avoiding contact with sensitive
aquatic life, following Project AWARE's 10 Ways a Diver Can Protect the Underwater
environment
✔✔List four ways to encourage responsible diver behavior. - ✔✔1. Be a good role
model
2. During briefing put responsible behavior in context
3. Make it easier (Float hanging at safety stop)
4. Reward responsible behavior and skills, perhaps by compliments
✔✔Describe the aspects of diving that do and do not fall within the divemaster's
responsibility, and the aspects of dive planning and diving that each diver must retain
responsibility for. - ✔✔DIVEMASTER:
1. Evaluating dive conditions
2. Preparing for emergencies
3. Orienting divers to the site
DIVERS:
1. Planning dives themselves within their limits
2. Following their individual dive plans
, ✔✔Describe how to assess general dive conditions, and how you can expect conditions
to affect diving. - ✔✔WEATHER:
Winds can cause waves, surf, surge, currents
Water movement can also reduce visibility as can rain runoff
Temperature can have effects pre/post and during dive
TIDES & CURRENTS:
Affects visibility, temperature and choice of technique
VISIBILITY:
Plankton blooms and silty bottoms
Time of dive can effect the daylight penetration
Experience of both diving and the particular site
✔✔The four aspects of supervision in managing dives are: - ✔✔1. Preparation
2. Communication
3. Recognition
4. Vantage point
✔✔List and describe the advantages of in-water vs. out-of-water supervision, and the
advantages and disadvantages of supervision vantage point in-water vs. out-of-water. -
✔✔SUPERVISION:
In-Water Advantages: You are close to divers so you can respond quickly, can reduce
some problems by spotting them before they occur, can also guide to specific points of
interest
In-Water Disadvantages: You can only watch one group and therefore need everyone to
stay together
Out-of-Water Advantages: Can supervise multiple groups, you are closer to the
emergency equipment (radio), offer the group more flexibility
Out-of-Water Disadvantages: You are not immediately at hand therefore you can advise
and lead
VANTAGE POINTS:
In-Water: Can be on hand easily but may not be able to see much
Out-of-Water: Elevated view means that you can see more but it may take longer to
respond
✔✔List eight types of equipment that can assist in supervising certified divers. - ✔✔1.
Clipboard and dive roster
2. Binoculars
3. Dive site maps
4. Surface maps
5. Nautical charts
6. Tool kit
7. Radio/Cell phone
