Advanced teaching methods
Analyzing student needs, planning advanced lessons and delivering technical information to already-experienced divers.
CMAS Two-Star Instructor · ★★ · Hurghada
The advanced professional level. Real teaching experience, twenty-five sessions and an assist on another instructor’s training, turned into the ability to teach advanced, specialty, rescue and entry-level leadership programs. For One-Star Instructors ready to take on more, trained across Hurghada.
The CMAS Two-Star Instructor course, CMAS ★★, is the advanced professional instructor qualification of the Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques, developing an experienced One-Star Instructor into someone who can teach advanced diver, specialty, rescue and entry-level leadership programs. In Hurghada it costs €1,500 per person for the training, with CMAS federation, registration, instructor materials, examination, assessment and certification fees charged separately. Candidates must be at least twenty, hold CMAS One-Star Instructor for at least one year, show real teaching experience across a minimum of 25 training sessions, and have assisted a CMAS Three-Star Instructor on at least one One-Star Instructor training program; the course covers advanced teaching methods, theory instruction, confined water and open water instruction, instructor leadership and dive management, with theoretical, confined-water, open-water, teaching-skills and emergency-procedure assessments. Red Sea Diving runs it in Hurghada on the Egyptian Red Sea.
Moreover, this level is not designed for someone who has just received a One-Star Instructor card without gaining practical teaching experience first. Therefore we review your teaching record, logbook and instructor-training experience before we confirm a program, and we explain in writing any CMAS fee that applies. The course follows the standards published by the Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques.
| Course | CMAS Two-Star Instructor, the advanced professional CMAS instructor level |
|---|---|
| Price | €1,500 per person, training only |
| CMAS fees | Federation, registration, instructor materials, examination, assessment and certification, charged separately where they apply |
| Minimum age | 20 years |
| Instructor prerequisite | CMAS One-Star Instructor, held for at least one year |
| Teaching experience | Minimum 25 training sessions, across classroom, confined water and open water instruction |
| Instructor-training experience | Assisted a CMAS Three-Star Instructor on at least one CMAS One-Star Instructor training program |
| Focus | Advanced teaching methods, theory instruction, confined and open water instruction, instructor leadership, dive management, emergency procedures |
| Assessments | Theoretical, confined-water, open-water, teaching-skills and emergency-procedure assessments |
| Teaching permissions | Advanced diver, specialty, rescue and entry-level leadership programs, within current CMAS and federation standards |
| Next level | CMAS Three-Star Instructor |
| Location | Hurghada, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt |
| Operator | Red Sea Diving, a CMAS-affiliated dive center in Hurghada, diving since 2000 |
A One-Star Instructor teaches entry-level divers. By contrast, Two-Star adds advanced, specialty, rescue and entry-level leadership teaching, plus the responsibility that comes with wider permissions. Consequently CMAS asks for proof first: twenty-five actual training sessions taught, not simply a year of holding the card, and hands-on experience assisting a Three-Star Instructor during a One-Star Instructor course.
Furthermore, that last requirement matters. Training future instructors is a different skill from training divers, and CMAS wants you to have seen it done before you teach at this level.
In short, Two-Star Instructor is earned through real classroom, confined water and open water hours, not simply time served.
Analyzing student needs, planning advanced lessons and delivering technical information to already-experienced divers.
Above all, lesson structure, technical accuracy and questioning techniques strong enough to explain advanced subjects clearly.
Likewise, organizing students, demonstrating advanced skills and correcting problems, assessed as part of certification.
In addition, managing depth, gas, current and buddy teams while teaching, with its own CMAS assessment.
Organizing training, supporting other instructors and maintaining standards, not only teaching your own class.
Furthermore, organizing divers, coordinating instructors and managing surface support during training activities.
Delivering rescue training and specialty programs, within the permissions your certification and federation allow.
Preparing divers for their own first leadership steps, a responsibility Two-Star Instructor adds.
Finally, formally assessed emergency-procedure skills, because advanced responsibility needs advanced emergency awareness.
However, CMAS evaluates your ability to teach effectively, not simply your ability to perform diving skills yourself. In other words, explain, demonstrate, observe, correct and assess remain the whole point.
To begin with, we review your One-Star Instructor date, training sessions taught, instructor-training experience and current qualifications.
Then advanced teaching methods, lesson planning and the theoretical assessment, built on real diving knowledge.
Next, advanced demonstration, correction and the confined-water teaching assessment.
Afterward, teaching advanced divers in open water, managing depth, gas and buddy teams, toward the open-water assessment.
Finally, the teaching-skills and emergency-procedure assessments, and your certification at the advanced professional level.
However, the exact schedule depends on your existing teaching record and current CMAS assessment arrangements. Consequently we confirm the day-by-day plan once we have reviewed your background.
Not there yet? The CMAS One-Star Instructor course is the step before this one, and the teaching sessions can build up here on our daily courses long before you register. Moreover, if you already hold a higher instructor rating from another agency, send it to us first, because we can advise on the appropriate CMAS route.
Therefore your written quotation shows the €1,500 training price and each applicable CMAS fee as separate lines. In fact, the exams belong to CMAS, which is why their fees never sit inside our price.
An advanced instructor candidate needs advanced students, and Hurghada supplies them all year: continuing-education divers, specialty candidates and international guests at every level, on daily boats within minutes of the marina. Consequently your twenty-five training sessions are real lessons with real students, not rehearsals with fellow candidates.
Furthermore, the same base runs daily diving and liveaboards, so advanced and specialty teaching opportunities are genuinely available here. Our procedures sit on the diving safety page.
Equally, we teach PADI, BSAC and CMAS instructor routes, so our own instructor team already coordinates across systems every week.
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Deliver advanced, specialty, rescue and entry-level leadership programs within your certification and federation permissions.
By contrast, help a Three-Star Instructor run One-Star Instructor training, building toward your own next level.
Afterward, the highest CMAS instructor level, for those who want to train other instructors themselves.
Overall, the CMAS instructor route runs: One-Star Instructor → Two-Star Instructor → Three-Star Instructor. Meanwhile, we also teach the PADI and BSAC instructor routes, and can advise on which fits your goals.
Why us
Above all, professional instruction includes knowing when a training activity needs to be changed, postponed or cancelled.
Indeed, more than two decades of diving and liveaboard operations out of Hurghada, on every Egyptian route.
Furthermore, continuing-education divers and specialty candidates train here every week, giving you genuine sessions to teach.
Moreover, our instructor team runs One-Star Instructor courses regularly, giving you a genuine chance to assist and log the experience.
In addition, we explain the €1,500 training price and every applicable CMAS fee in writing before you confirm.
Likewise, we teach PADI, BSAC and CMAS, so we can advise honestly on which instructor route fits your existing certification.
Questions
The Red Sea Diving training price is €1,500 per person. However, official CMAS federation, examination, assessment and certification fees are separate unless specifically included.
No, unless specifically stated in your confirmed quotation. Therefore we charge them separately and explain them in writing.
Suitable training can be arranged subject to eligibility, CMAS federation requirements and appropriately authorized instructor personnel.
Twenty years.
Candidates must hold CMAS One-Star Instructor, held for at least one year.
Experience as an instructor in a minimum of 25 training sessions, across classroom, confined-water and open-water teaching.
Yes. The current standard requires evidence that you have assisted a CMAS Three-Star Instructor on at least one CMAS One-Star Instructor training program.
Yes. Candidates must successfully complete the required theoretical assessment.
Yes. The certification process includes confined-water, open-water and teaching-skills assessments.
Yes. Candidates must successfully complete the applicable emergency-procedure skills assessment.
Depending on current standards and federation authorization, entry-level, advanced and specialty diver programs, rescue training and entry-level leadership programs.
The next main instructor level is CMAS Three-Star Instructor.
Send us your full name, your age, your nationality, your CMAS membership and federation details, your current instructor qualification and the date you completed One-Star Instructor, your number of logged dives, your number of training sessions taught across theory, confined water and open water, your instructor-training experience, your first aid/CPR and oxygen-administration qualifications, your preferred dates and the number of candidates. Then we review your qualifications and confirm the appropriate training options and price in writing. For liveaboard diving in Egypt see also redsealiveaboard.net, and read the current fitness guidance from Divers Alert Network.
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