Introduction
Dive more, have more fun and teach about your favorite subjects. Specialty instructor courses provide valuable teaching tips for meeting the requirements of the course. You can choose from any of the 27 standard specialty courses that PADI offers along with many distinctive specialty courses our Course Director offers. Having five specialty instructor ratings is a prerequisite for the Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) rating.
The Fun Part
Whether it’s Kelp, Deep, Digital UW Photography, Enriched Air Nitrox, PADI Specialty Instructors are out there scuba diving and training. Join the fun. As a PADI Specialty Instructor, challenge your students to become Master Scuba Divers. Increase your marketability as a PADI Professional
What You Learn
You’re on your way to becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer with only five PADI Specialty Instructor ratings. Become a PADI Specialty Instructor with our Course Director. By doing so, you will only need to show proof of only ten dives in each particular specialty and do not need any certification number to start certifying your students in that specialty. You also do not pay PADI as much to register, an added bonus!
Our Specialty Instructor Training course is highly recommended. Our courses provide valuable hands-on training, technique demonstrations, course marketing information, current PADI Standards information and, when applicable, instructor-level open water training.
What You Can Teach
Teach the PADI Specialties you like most! At a glance, compare what you can teach when you continue your professional diver education.
The Scuba Gear You Use
You will need to equip yourself with all the basic scuba gear, some scuba accessories depending on which specialties you want to teach. You’ll need other specialty diving gear such as dive lights or underwater digital photography equipment. You can find most everything at Dive N Trips.
Learning Materials You Need
PADI’s Specialty Instructor Manual includes the specialty instructor guides for all of PADI’s standardized specialties. The outlines are also available digitally on the Specialty Instructor Manual CD-ROM. Once registered, the digital specialty manual can be updated for a discounted price.
Prerequisites
You must be a renewed PADI Assistant Instructor, PADI Instructor or have completed an IDC or Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program within the past 12 month.
What Will I Do?
During your course, you will be attending and giving presentations, both knowledge development, as well as confined or open water dives.
How Long Will It Take?
Your personal program will be designed especially for you. We may accomplish this ina single weekend, or it might take a few. Call us for more information.
