Are you ready to transform your life?
You’ve been a scuba diver for over six months, you may have already attained the Master Scuba Diver rating, and treated yourself to several fun-filled scuba diving vacations —but something’s missing. Then one day you realize that you not only want to participate in scuba diving, but you want to teach the sport you have come to love.
PADI Divemaster
PADI Assistant Instructor
PADI Open Water Instructor
PADI Specialty Instructor
PADI Staff Instructor
PADI Divemaster
Take charge of your adventure...
Are you a PADI Rescue Diver? After you’ve completed the PADI Rescue Diver course, you’re ready for PADI Divemaster. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities by teaching you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers. Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. During the program, you learn leadership skills through classroom and independent study. You complete water skills, stamina exercises and training exercises that stretch your ability to organize and solve problems. You put this knowledge into action through an internship or series of practical training exercises
What would I do?
Knowledge Development: 12 topics ranging from dive theory to assisting student divers in training
Learn dive leadership skills through classroom sessions and by using the PADI Divemaster Manual and Video.
Complete a series of waterskills and stamina exercises in confined and open water environments.
Three required training exercises that test organizational and problem solving abilities.
Mapping a dive site, including underwater and surface features
Equipment exchange: demonstrate the ability to solve unanticipated problems underwater
Conduct a simulated or actual class, under the supervision of a PADI Instructor
Internship or Practical Training Exercises (choose one)
Internship: hands-on experience supervising and assisting divers in actual PADI programs, under the guidance of a PADI Instructor
Practical Training Exercises: simulated scenarios in supervising and assisting divers, under the supervision of a PADI Instructor
Prerequisites:
PADI Rescue Diver (or qualifying certification from another training organization)
20 logged dives to enroll. Minimum number of logged dives of 60 for certification as PADI Divemaster
Logged experience in night diving
Medical clearance signed by a physician
Valid Medic First Aid certificate
18 years old
Materials You’ll Need:
PADI Divemaster Manual & Divemaster Slates (provided)
Recreational Dive Planner (RDP) – all three versions (Table, Wheel and eRDP including associated Instructions for Use booklets)
The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
Diving Knowledge Workbook
Instructor Guides for the programs that may be conducted by PADI Divemasters: Discover Scuba Diving, Discover Snorkeling/Skin Diver Course, Scuba Review/Discover Local Diving.
What can You do after your course?
Work with local dive centers, on live-aboard dive boats, yachts and at exotic resort locations
Assist PADI Instructors with scuba classes
Lead PADI Scuba Divers on guided dive tours
Teach and certify PADI Skin Divers
Conduct PADI Scuba Review programs for certified divers
Conduct Discover Local Diving orientations
Teach The Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty Course after successfully completing a Digital Underwater Specialty Instructor Training Course.
Teach Emergency First Response CPR and First Aid programs after completing the Emergency First Response instructor training program.
Enroll on PADI Assistant Instructor or Instructor Course
Are you a PADI Divemaster?
You’re getting close...
Now it’s time to start your PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC). The IDC consists of two sections, the Assistant Instructor (AI) course and the Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program. This structure lets you divide the course into two blocks for schedule convenience if you need to. However, you may prefer to complete the two portions together, going through the entire IDC in as few as seven days. The first part of the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) is the PADI Assistant Instructor course. This course provides you additional experience as a PADI Professional and teaches you the PADI System of diver education.
PADI Assistant Instructor
Be part of the magic and adventure of scuba diving...
Are you looking for something extraordinary? To do something others can only dream of? To open doors you didn’t even know existed? All of this, and more, awaits you as a PADI Assistant Instructor. Start today to become part of the way the world learns to dive.
The PADI Assistant Instructor rating qualifies you to:
Teach knowledge development (classroom) presentations (under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor)
Evaluate Open Water Diver surface skills (under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor)
Teach the Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course
Teach the Project AWARE Specialty course
Conduct PADI Discover Scuba experiences
Teach Emergency First Response courses after successfully completing the Emergency First Response Instructor Course
Prerequisites:
PADI Divemaster rating or qualifying certification from another organization
Be at least 18 years old
60 logged dives (with experience in night, deep and navigation)
Proof of CPR and first aid training within the last 24 months
Medical clearance signed by a physician
What it takes?
Three days
Self-study – Knowledge reviews, quizzes, lectures and presentations
Confined water – Skills review and assessment, workshops and presentations
Open Water – Workshops, rescue assessment and candidate presentations
PADI Instructor
Want a fun and exciting career?
The Open Water Scuba Instructor program portion of the PADI IDC further hones your leadership and teaching skills to prepare you for life as a PADI Instructor. After a successful completion of the programme you would qualify to take part in the PADI Instructor Examination for final qualification.
Prerequisites:
PADI Assistant Instructor certification or be an instructor in good standing with another training organization for at least six months
Certified diver for at least six months
60 logged dives (with experience in night, deep, and navigation)
Proof of CPR and first aid training within the last 24 months
Medical clearance signed by a physician
What it takes?
Four days
Self-study – Knowledge reviews, quizzes, lectures, presentations
Confined Water – Skills review and assessment, workshops and presentations
Open Water – Workshops, rescue assessment and presentations
You must have a minimum of 100 logged dives to become a PADI Instructor (though you can begin training as one with 60 logged dives).
PADI Instructor Examination
The final step!
After you complete your IDC, you demonstrate what you’ve learned in the Instructor Examination (IE). Here a PADI Instructor Examiner independently and objectively assesses your knowledge and skills, testing everything from dive theory to PADI training standards. PADI is the only certification organization that requires an objective, independent examination to qualify as a professional instructor. This balanced and consistent evaluation process is one of the hallmarks that makes PADI professionals the most demanded and respected instructors in the dive industry.
Prerequisites:
Successful completion of PADI IDC
What it takes?
Two days
Dive theory and standards and procedures exams
Waterskills and diver rescue assessment
Teaching presentations in classroom, confined and open water