2026 DIVEMASTER REVIEW EXAMS QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What are four reasons for having your own copy of the PADI Instructor Manual? -
✔✔1. List standards - which makes it easier to anticipate instructor needs
2. Contains DM instructed program details
3. You need to be fluent with it to become an instructor
4. Keeps you current with regular updates
✔✔Describe your role as a PADI Divemaster in relation to student divers in training. -
✔✔1. Behave as a role model
2. Listen to concerns and problems as a DM is less intimidating than an instructor to talk
to
3. Keep training enjoyable
4. Be flexible to dive industry changes
✔✔With respect to PADI programs, what is a "certified assistant" and what can a
certified assistant do? - ✔✔1. A certified assistant can be a DM, AI or an Instructor
2. They can do the following:
- Lead discover scuba diving (2:1)
- Escort Advanced Open Water students
- Allow the instructor to add four divers diving confined water training in the Open Water
course
✔✔Explain how positioning affects your ability to assist with student diver control. -
✔✔Positioning affects the ability to see divers (and their ability to see you) and the
instructor and to recognize and respond to problems
✔✔List five examples of logistical functions you can perform to assist with divers in
training at the surface and underwater. - ✔✔SURFACE:
1. Enforce safety/facility rules
2. Equipment handling
, 3. Assist with student diver preparation
4. Coordinator student diver flow
5. Assisting with paperwork
UNDERWATER:
1. Lead/follow
2. Escort
3. Air checks
4. Standby supervisor
5. Navigation
✔✔List and describe the three steps to take to help a student diver master a dive skill. -
✔✔1. Have the student diver demonstrate to look for problems with critical attributes
2. Re-demonstrate the skill
3. Assure early success
✔✔Where do you find skill performance requirements student divers must master for
PADI course? - ✔✔In the PADI Instructor Manual
✔✔Explain why the PADI Divemaster course emphasizes dive theory training. - ✔✔1.
To develop problem solving abilities
2. Gives theory to apply during practical sessions
3. Prepares for instructor level training
✔✔Explain why you would want a dive reference library. - ✔✔1. Somewhere to look up
information
2. Enables you to keep track of changing theory
3. Increase expertise by broadening knowledge outside courses
4. Enables refreshing knowledge
✔✔Explain how specialty diver training benefits you with respect to learning dive theory.
- ✔✔1. Goes into more details
2. Better chance to try out specific theory not possible in normal dives (ie. color changes
at depth)
✔✔Explain how you will keep your dive theory knowledge current after you complete
Divemaster? - ✔✔1. Keep reading up on diving
2. Refresh knowledge regularly
✔✔Describe what a compartment is, and what are meant by halftime and M-value. -
✔✔COMPARTMENT: a theoretical tissue constructed based upon a theoretical
mathematical model to simplify the fact that the body doesn't absorb or release nitrogen
on a singular timescale
AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔What are four reasons for having your own copy of the PADI Instructor Manual? -
✔✔1. List standards - which makes it easier to anticipate instructor needs
2. Contains DM instructed program details
3. You need to be fluent with it to become an instructor
4. Keeps you current with regular updates
✔✔Describe your role as a PADI Divemaster in relation to student divers in training. -
✔✔1. Behave as a role model
2. Listen to concerns and problems as a DM is less intimidating than an instructor to talk
to
3. Keep training enjoyable
4. Be flexible to dive industry changes
✔✔With respect to PADI programs, what is a "certified assistant" and what can a
certified assistant do? - ✔✔1. A certified assistant can be a DM, AI or an Instructor
2. They can do the following:
- Lead discover scuba diving (2:1)
- Escort Advanced Open Water students
- Allow the instructor to add four divers diving confined water training in the Open Water
course
✔✔Explain how positioning affects your ability to assist with student diver control. -
✔✔Positioning affects the ability to see divers (and their ability to see you) and the
instructor and to recognize and respond to problems
✔✔List five examples of logistical functions you can perform to assist with divers in
training at the surface and underwater. - ✔✔SURFACE:
1. Enforce safety/facility rules
2. Equipment handling
, 3. Assist with student diver preparation
4. Coordinator student diver flow
5. Assisting with paperwork
UNDERWATER:
1. Lead/follow
2. Escort
3. Air checks
4. Standby supervisor
5. Navigation
✔✔List and describe the three steps to take to help a student diver master a dive skill. -
✔✔1. Have the student diver demonstrate to look for problems with critical attributes
2. Re-demonstrate the skill
3. Assure early success
✔✔Where do you find skill performance requirements student divers must master for
PADI course? - ✔✔In the PADI Instructor Manual
✔✔Explain why the PADI Divemaster course emphasizes dive theory training. - ✔✔1.
To develop problem solving abilities
2. Gives theory to apply during practical sessions
3. Prepares for instructor level training
✔✔Explain why you would want a dive reference library. - ✔✔1. Somewhere to look up
information
2. Enables you to keep track of changing theory
3. Increase expertise by broadening knowledge outside courses
4. Enables refreshing knowledge
✔✔Explain how specialty diver training benefits you with respect to learning dive theory.
- ✔✔1. Goes into more details
2. Better chance to try out specific theory not possible in normal dives (ie. color changes
at depth)
✔✔Explain how you will keep your dive theory knowledge current after you complete
Divemaster? - ✔✔1. Keep reading up on diving
2. Refresh knowledge regularly
✔✔Describe what a compartment is, and what are meant by halftime and M-value. -
✔✔COMPARTMENT: a theoretical tissue constructed based upon a theoretical
mathematical model to simplify the fact that the body doesn't absorb or release nitrogen
on a singular timescale
