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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.

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Divemaster

Assistant Instructor

Open Water Instructor

EFR Instructor

Specialty Instructor

Master Scuba Diver Trainer

IDC Staff Instructor

Instructor Examination

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

PADI Specialty Instructor
Join the fun!

Teach courses that interest you! A PADI Specialty Instructor dives more, has more fun and teaches about favourite subjects. It’s easy and it gets you teaching divers about things you like. Whether it’s Deep, Wreck, Photography or Enriched Air Nitrox, just to name few, PADI Specialty Instructors are out there diving and training.

• You're on your way to becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer with only five PADI Specialty Instructor ratings
• As a PADI Specialty Instructor, challenge your students to become Master Scuba Divers
• Increase your marketability as a PADI Professional

Master Scuba Diver Trainer
Teach what you love to teach!

You’re a new instructor? Just finished the IE? No problem. You tell your students to aim for PADI Master Scuba Diver. You also want to tell them that you can take them all the way there because you’re a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer. The Master Scuba Diver Trainer rating sets you apart from other dive instructors by showing your commitment to continuing your dive training and being prepared to help others continue their training as well.

To qualify as a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, you must be a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor with five PADI Specialty Instructor certifications, and you must have certified at least 25 PADI Divers. As a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, you

• Enjoy watching your student divers excel as you lead them from PADI Open Water Diver to PADI Master Scuba Diver.
• Increase your income with multiple level training.
• Meet one of the requirements to qualify as a PADI Master Instructor.

IDC Staff Instructor
Teach what you love to teach!

As a seasoned PADI Instructor, you have wisdom and experience to share with up-and-coming PADI leaders. And, you know that continuing your education never ends. As an Instructor Development Course (IDC) Staff Instructor, you help bring up the next generation of PADI Instructors while gaining in-depth instructor-trainer knowledge. Because IDC Staff Instructors are an integral part of the PADI IDC, you set the stage for moving on to PADI Course Director as you present topics in the IDC and help shape PADI Divemasters and Assistant Instructors into PADI Open Water Instructors.

In addition to all the courses you can teach as a PADI Instructor, you can also:

• Teach PADI Assistant Instructor courses.
• Assist PADI Course Directors in conducting the PADI Instructor Development Course.
• Assist PADI Course Directors in conducting instructor-level continuing education.