Divemaster Course
Go Pro with Gili Divers! We take immense pride in offering one of the most renowned Divemaster internship in Indonesia. Beyond the comprehensive SSI- and PADI divemaster curriculum, we provide a lot of extras, ensuring that our divemaster students receive the best training.
Here at Gili Divers we have a very active and popular Divemaster education program. With candidates always at various stages of the Divemaster course, there is always company at the same level. We have plenty of courses to assist and plenty of fun dives to guide; real hands-on experience, no role play.
Our Divemaster course has a strong emphasis on gaining real practical experience in the water in real diving situations. The diving environment around The Gili Islands has generally very good visibility and the water is warm all year around. However, it is quite dynamic and has depth. This enables divemaster candidates to gain experience with current, drift and deep dive scenarios with 30m+ visibility.
What sets the Gili Divers Divemaster course apart
Beyond the Basics
Our Divemaster internship goes beyond the standard curriculum. We offer theory lectures, engage in reef clean-up initiatives, host movie nights, organize sizzling BBQs, attend Rock & Roll Bingo’s, and actively participate in conservation projects.
No Maximum Time
Unlike many other places, we do not have a time limit to the divemaster course, meaning you can take all the time you need. A minimum of 4 weeks is required, and you can dive as much as you wish.
Unlimited diving
Before, during and after the course you can dive as much as your heart desires. And when ever you return (yes, you will keep coming back for more) you can dive for free.
A diving family for life
Did we already say you will keep coming back? Because you will. One of the highlights pointed out by our divemaster alumni is the Gili Divers family you will become a part of. Friends (or loves) for life and spread all over the world; your future holidays will never be the same.
Flexibility
Want to take breaks during the course? No problem, our course runs all year long, and you can step in and out. Do you work online on the side? Many digital nomads have gone before you, and we can customize the training to your working hours.
Stay and Dive
Unique to us, after obtaining your Divemaster certification, you have the opportunity to remain with us, gaining invaluable experience as part of our Divemaster team.
Dedicated Training
Our dedicated Divemaster Instructor Leanne ensures that every candidate receives top-notch training and maintains our program's high standards. Additionally, each Divemaster Trainee (DMT) is paired with an experienced instructor who serves as a mentor, providing personalized, one-on-one guidance.
Diverse Advancement
If you aspire to broaden your diving skills, we offer a range of specialities, boast an in-house Tech Instructor, and have our very own Instructor Trainer to guide you on your journey to becoming a certified dive instructor. Want to become an Eco Diver? Then check out our Eco Divemaster Course.
Komodo & Raja Ampat
Our sister dive centre Scuba Republic offers discounted rates to Gili Divers DMTs if you wish to explore diving in other areas of Indonesia.
Savings and Benefits
As a DMT, you'll enjoy exclusive discounts on all our other courses, diving equipment and in our beachfront restaurant La Cala.
What can you expect from our Divemaster program
The first required achievement to start on the Divemaster course is 40 logged dives. If you don’t have the required number of dives you will complete them here on the island while you get started on the theory, refining your personal diving skills, swimming etc.
Once you have 40 dives logged, the course will start properly, with accompanying instructors on a full range of courses from introduction dives through to Rescue Diver courses. Whilst doing this, you will learn how to demonstrate dive skills during a skill circuit, practice dive briefings and have lectures ranging from physics to dive equipment. Gili Divers’ team of multinational instructors is very helpful when it comes to the finer points of theory.
Having built experience and confidence, you will begin to start guiding student divers supervised by your instructor. Teaching a refresher course all by yourself and final exams are also part of becoming a certified professional divemaster
Throughout the program, you will:
- Refine your finning techniques
- Learn how to deploy a Surface Marker Buoy (SMB)
- Assist instructors in Introduction and Open Water courses
- Participate in skill demonstration workshops
- Assist in Rescue and Advanced courses
- Gain experience in guiding dives
- Teach divers about diving theory
- Attend workshops in various essential areas, such as Guiding, Briefing, Navigation, Knots, Search and Recovery, Scuba Refreshers, and a variety of lecture topics.
- Our famous Snorkel Test Party to celebrate your completion!
We regularly provide feedback and evaluations to help you progress through the program.
Becoming a divemaster, what does it cost?
The Divemaster course alone costs 18.000.000 IDR and the mandatory Divemaster crewpack costs an additional 4.500.000 IDR, this includes all the theory, materials, certification and professional fees.
If you need to complete more courses before the Divemaster we have some great dive packages available, the prices are as follows:
- Advanced, EFR, Rescue, and DiveMaster bundle: 30,200,000 IDR
- Rescue, EFR, and DiveMaster bundle: 26,000,000 IDR
Advance your diving career
As a Gili Divers Divemaster Trainee, you receive great discounts on our other courses.
You can expand your knowledge and add on the Deep and Nitrox Specialty course to Divemaster course for 5.110.000 IDR, or learn how to dive with 2 tanks and become a Sidemount diver.
Should you wish to continue your journey to become an instructor, our in-house Instructor Trainer Ovan conducts regular instructor courses. As a Gili Divers DMT, you receive an exclusive discount on the instructor course.
Our in-house Marine Ecologist Bethany runs the Gili Divers Eco program. When you join the Gili Divers ECO Divemaster Program, you get the divemaster training plus all the extras our ECO program has to offer. This includes 5 specialities and the Ocean Quest Coral Propagation certification. You will learn about Shark, Turtle and Marine ecology, Coral and Fish Identification and Coral propagation. As an ECO-DMT you receive all this valuable knowledge and learn how to apply it. Besides regular reef and beach cleans, you will go out to apply your coral knowledge during reef gardening and survey dives. Read more about the Eco Divemaster Program.
Divemaster Course
Meet Bethany
Bethany became an Ocean Quest Coral Propagation trainer, teaching scuba divers how to propagate and manage coral nurseries to preserve this fragile ecosystem for years to come! Climbing the SSI Pathway, Bethany is now an SSI Ecology speciality Instructor, teaching Marine Ecology, Fish identification, coral identification, turtle ecology, shark ecology and Invertebrate ecology.
With a huge passion for marine life and environmental sustainability, Bethany is on a mission to educate scuba divers on the complexity and importance of marine animals and their ecosystems.
Meet Ovan
Why dive with us?
A Friendly & Certified Team
Our team of certified instructors and guides is passionate about marine conservation and sharing the wonders of the Gili Islands Marine Park with you.
Tailored Courses for Every Level
From beginner courses to professional programs, we tailor each experience to your skill level and interests.
Dive in Comfort & Safety
Our state-of-the-art equipment and well-maintained boats ensure comfort and reliability throughout your dive.
Prime beach front location
Our prime beachfront location offers direct and easy access to dive sites around the Gili Islands.
What is Tech Diving?
Beyond its technical aspects, technical diving is an adventure that unlocks access to rare and uncharted sites, offering an unparalleled experience for marine discovery enthusiasts and those seeking personal challenges.
Why Choose Technical Diving?
Meet Clem, our Technical Diving Instructor
From there, she expanded her teaching range with numerous specialties, alongside regularly leading fun and challenging technical dives. Over the years, she has gained invaluable experience teaching and diving in a wide variety of environments; from the cold, murky waters of the English Channel to the deep wrecks of the Maltese islands, and the vibrant marine life of Oman.
She joined Gili Divers in 2021 where she has taken on the task of growing a dedicated technical diving department. With a focus on personalised training, her main drive is always to create a safe and supportive teaching environment to encourage all divers to progress toward pushing their limits.
With a strong passion for deep diving and mentoring, she aims to empower students by giving them the confidence to achieve their diving goals. As a JJ-CCR Mod2 Mixed Gas diver, she enjoys exploring deep reefs and has a special love for historical wrecks.
Gili divers ! I had such an amazing time with this team. I just recently completed my Divemaster Traineeship with Gili divers and can’t recommend them enough if you are looking for quality training in an enthusiastic environment. I started from the bottom with Gili Divers (Zero to Hero) and the quality of skills and learning provided with the training has left me with supreme confidence to perform the job of a divemaster. With the combination of theoretical and practical learning you are always improving and this is welcomed by the team at Gili Divers. Being on Gili Trawangan and with the perfectly located dive shop, it is a paradise.
I would like to thank everyone at Gili Divers for making my training as enjoyable as possible!
As soon as I arrived at Gili Divers I was welcomed so warm-heartedly. During my dive master training I not only made friends that turned into family I found a second home.
The dive master training itself is one of the best and is constantly increasing.
While ticking all the boxes to become a professional divemaster you also get to actually experience the routine of a divemaster lifestyle assisting many courses and later through guiding on your own towards the end. My snorkel test was the cherry on top. For years I watched snorkel tests and always wondered what mine would be like. It blew all my expectations. Now It’s my second return to Gili Divers. I can happily say this dive shop changed my life for the better simply because I signed up for the Divemaster Training program.
So I didn’t even know about GD. I was walking down the street towards the shop I saw on Google when I felt some vibe in the air. I turned my head and saw a bunch of people chilling on the couch, having fun dancing, gathering around a picture, eating lunch, was so much going on, but I could feel a vibe that was calling me. A couple of weeks before I completed my rescue course in a SSI shop (first one), so this maybe was a sign. I went in, after a chat they invited me to dive. After the dive I knew here it was where I wanted to be trained. I wanted to have that spirit, excellence, knowledge and joyfulness. During my training I was able to assist most of the instructors in their different courses which was awesome, everyone had some feedback to give and help me become a better diver and also better professional. I loved that as they gained trust in my skills they would participate more and more, boosting my confidence in what I was doing. I started shy, but with time I felt part of the group, fooling around in the surface intervals and night shifts. Of course the Pandora box opened when I went to my first Bingo! Then and on it was just joy around. Dancing, joking, diving, learning, having deep conversations, going for sunsets, a couple of drinks, bike rides, etc. I made more than friends, people who to this day I still speak like we see each other everyday. For sure I’m coming back to keep exploring underwater life with my friends. There’s no better feeling than being down there doing what everyone loves all together. Those 6 weeks are on my list of the best moments of my life!
When I first visited Gili Divers, I had an amazing week of turtles, sharks, drinks and beaches. Someone suggested I stay for my DMT - but I had a job to get back home to. So obviously, a month later I quit my job and booked my flight back to Gili. It was probably the best decision of my life. Going from an office to a career in diving is difficult to describe. If you want to expand your world, meet your new family of amazing people, and discover what you’re truly capable of, this is it. You’ll lead deep dives at a wreck surrounded by sharks. You’ll learn how to deal with underwater emergencies. You’ll help out with courses and even deliver some of the training yourself. You’ll discover what five Joss shots can do. And you’ll probably make some friends for life. Quite honestly, you’ll never see things the same again. And like everyone else - you’ll come back to Gili to take advantage of the free diving for life once you’re done!
Doing my DMT at Gili Divers was one of my best decisions! I was able to assist on a lot of different courses (intro dive to rescue course) and got a good understanding of the “everyday life of a dive professional” and the dive industry itself. I loved the high quality of the training and the different workshops and lectures that made me a better diver and confident divemaster at the end of the program. The diving in the Gili Islands is amazing with its crystal clear water and beautiful marine life, but the best part of my stay were the people from Gili Divers: Everybody was so welcoming, friendly and incredibly knowledgeable. Here, I found my family away from home. 💛
My Divemaster Training with GiliDivers was unforgettable! The Gili islands accommodate the most beautiful underwater life with so much diversity and some of the best diving I have ever experienced. The instructors and divemasters here are incredibly skilled with so much passion and knowledge for diving and marine life. With that came quality teaching through every aspect of my DMT, both in and out of the water. My mentors were amazing at keeping me on track with my training and pushing me to be a confident dive professional whilst keeping it fun. Every single professional at Gili Divers put so much effort into sharing their knowledge and skills of diving! The team scheduled my training according to the time I had on the island and my personal goals to make sure I completed my DMT at a good pace.
Most importantly, Gili Divers provided me with friends for life who made me smile and laugh every single day. From exploring the depths of the ocean to the fun of island life on Gili Trawangan, I couldn’t have wished for a more friendly and welcoming team to share my experience with. I can’t wait to be back soon!
I recently completed my Dive Master course at Gili Divers, it was one of the best ideas ever and I can't recommend it enough! The entire team was incredibly friendly and helpful throughout the entire process. From the moment I arrived, I felt welcomed and supported. The instructors were knowledgeable and patient, making the learning experience both enjoyable and educational. The shop itself has high standards ensuring a safe and comfortable diving experience.
Overall, my time at Gili Divers exceeded my expectations and I would encourage anyone looking to dive in the Gili Islands to choose this fantastic shop.
Thank you for not only teaching me the skills to become a Divemaster but also for creating a welcoming and supportive community that feels like home. I'm excited to continue exploring the underwater wonders of the Gili Islands with you by my side 🩵
We offer a Divemaster internship style course over 6 to 12 weeks, or more if you like. We do not offer the course in return for work, though, but trust us that it is worth the investment. And if you can not pay the whole amount upfront, a payment plan can be discussed.
We offer the option of splitting the Divemaster course over multiple visits to Gili Trawangan, as some people do not have sufficient time free to complete the course during a single visit. Our course runs all year round, and you can step in and out. Also, if for any reason the course cannot be completed, a referral will be given so you can complete the course at another location. Payment is of course adjusted to represent what you have accomplished.
We recommend our divemaster trainees to spend as long as possible with us to gain the maximum from the course by diving alongside our instructors and divemasters. Even when the performance requirements have been met for the course, candidates are encouraged to continue gaining experience until they find work or need to leave. Almost all trainees are offered work after completing the course here at Gili Divers or by other dive shops on Gili Trawangan, Gili Air or even Gili Meno.
Finding long term accommodation here on Gili Trawangan is reasonably easy and costs around 3.500.000 IDR per month for a room with en-suite bathroom and air conditioning. When you arrive, we can offer you a dive dorm for the first few days whilst you get settled in. We will also help you find the right place to stay during your training. We have long term rooms available in our divecentre as well if you prefer to stay where the action is.
As a Divemaster trainee, you are supposed to have at least your own mask, surface marker, fins, torch, slate, 30m reel, and a dive computer as these are the essentials in the diving world and make your experience much easier. If you do not have these items already, Gili Divers has a wide range of equipment available for you. As a DMT you will receive a discount on all retail purchased through the shop. We can provide BCD, and regulators for the course. A full set is recommended if you intend to work or continue the Instructor course.
While our primary language of instruction is English, we have instructors proficient in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Swedish, Indonesian, Finnish, Danish and Dutch. You can also request a mentor who speaks your native language, ensuring clear communication during training sessions. Course materials are available in multiple languages.
