About the Course

Start here to become a PADI dive Instructor. Share your passion with others and help them experience the same joy you have for scuba diving.

If you like people, have a passion for scuba diving and want an extraordinary life – become a PADI Instructor. Teaching scuba diving allows you to share your love of the aquatic world with others while doing what you enjoy – being in, around and under water. PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors and PADI Assistant Instructors are the most sought-after dive professionals around the world 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, but you’re rewarded with a job that lets you share incredible underwater adventures with others – transforming their lives for the better and enriching yours.

Prerequisites:

• Dive Leader certification — PADI Divemaster or leadership-level certification with a recognized recreational diver training organization* who is either:
  • An instructor member in good standing, or
  • A diver with proof of certification in diver supervision and management including proof of rescue diving certification; 60 logged dives; documented experience in night diving, deep diving and underwater navigation.
• 18 years old
• Medical clearance attesting to dive fitness signed by a physician within the previous 12 months.
• Certified diver for six months.
• EFR Primary and Secondary Care course completion (or qualifying training) within the last 24 months.
• If not a PADI Divemaster, complete the PADI Divemaster course diver rescue skills assessment.
• Submit documentation of qualifying certifications for entry level, advanced, rescue and leadership level, as necessary.