PADI Assistant Instructor
If you like people and have a passion for scuba diving. And, want an extraordinary life? Then, become a PADI Assistant Instructor. Teaching scuba diving allows you to share your love of the aquatic world with others. Whilst doing what you enjoy. Being in, around and, underwater. PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors and PADI Assistant Instructors are the most sought-after dive professionals around the world. That's because they’ve completed the program that sets the standard for training dive professionals. You earn a PADI Instructor rating through hard work and commitment. However, you’re rewarded with a job that lets you share incredible underwater adventures with others. You'll help them in transforming their lives for the better whilst enriching your own.
Are you ready to join the ranks of the dedicated professionals who teach the world’s most progressive and popular scuba diver education programs?
Then Go PROSM with an Instructor Development Course.

PADI Assistant Instructor Course
- Be a PADI Divemaster or qualifying certification from another certification organization
- Be at least 18 years old
- Have 60 logged dives, including night, deep, and navigation dives
- Have been a certified diver for at least 6 months
- Have CPR and first aid training within the last 24 months
- Be fit for diving and submit a Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months.
The PADI Assistant Instructor course is the first portion of the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC).
And, when followed by the PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor course (OWSI) and successful performance at the PADI Instructor Examination (IE), leads to certification as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI). You build upon your abilities to organize and supervise scuba diving activities. Whilst concentrating on developing your own teaching skills.
You learn through:
- Knowledge development through self-study, quizzes, lectures and presentations
- Confined water skill review and assessment, workshops and presentations
- Open water workshops, rescue assessment and candidate presentations
In addition to the responsibilities and duties you already have as a PADI Divemaster, as a PADI Assistant Instructor you can:
- Teach academic presentations under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor
- During confined water dives, present initial skills training under the direct supervision of a PADI Instructor
- Evaluate Open Water Diver surface skills under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor
- Teach PADI Specialty courses under the direction of a PADI Instructor.
PADI IDC Crew Pack required for the IDC includes:
- Confined Water and Open Water cue cards
- Adventures in Diving cue cards
- Rescue Diver cue cards
- Divemaster cue cards
- Confined and Open Water lesson planning slate
- Open Water Course prescriptive lesson guides
- Open Water Course final exam
- Rescue Diver Course final exam
- Divemaster Course final exam
- PADI Guide to teaching
- Dive planning and Skill practice slate
- Specialty Instructor Outlines CD-ROM
- A positive approach to selling DVD
- Diving knowledge workbook
- PADI Backpack
- PADI Instructor Decal
- EFR Instructor Manual (if required)
Contact us for current pricing of PADI materials
PADI Assistant Instructor Application €75 (2019) paid directly to PADI at the time of application
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