Looking for the first step in working with scuba as a career? Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational scuba 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. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers. PADI Divemaster is the prerequisite certification for both the PADI Assistant Instructor and PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor certifications.

As a PADI Assistant Instructor, you not only gain additional experience as a PADI Professional scuba diver, but you also start learning the PADI System of diver education. You can act as an instructional scuba assistant and assume limited teaching responsibilities. It’s a great way to gain experience in order to become a scuba instructor!

The Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program is one of two distinct components of PADI’s Instructor Development Course (IDC)—the core of PADI Instructor training. The first portion is the Assistant Instructor course followed by the Open Water Scuba Instructor program.

The OWSI program is a minimum of four days. It introduces you to the entire PADI System of diver education and concentrates on further developing your abilities as a professional dive educator.

The PADI Instructor Development Course (PADI IDC) is the leading instructor training program in the recreational dive industry. Our programs are generally scheduled over 10 days to allow ample time to become fully comfortable with all the material. Candidates undertaking the PADI IDC have the choice of completing the full program in one course, or taking the program in two parts - the PADI Assistant Instructor Course and the PADI OWSI Program.

Upon successful completion of the complete PADI IDC (or PADI AI Course and PADI OWSI Program), a candidate will be eligible to attend a PADI Instructor Exam. Once this step is successfully completed, you'll be ready to be certified as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.

Once divers have the basics under control, they might want to take photos, dive on shipwrecks, or just know a little more about the fish that they are seeing.

As a dive instructor you have the opportunity to introduce people to these specialty pursuits. To be able to do this really well, you'll want to be a specialty instructor in a number of areas that you are passionate about, so you can share that passion.

The Master Scuba Diver rating for recreational divers is the highest level of diving certification you can achieve as a non professional certification and is a very popular one within the industry. It shows the divers commitment to the sport of diving by learning more and experiencing more. As a Master Scuba Diver Trainer – you will be able to take the keen student diver to the highest level.

Be recognized as one of the elite dive educators – PADI Master Instructor. PADI Master Instructors embody the essence of a true dive professional having demonstrated a thorough understanding of the PADI System of diver education, and put it into practice by training 150 or more PADI Divers.

PADI Course Directors are instructor trainers who conduct PADI Instructor Development Courses (IDC) and other instructor-level training. PADI Course Directors hold the highest and most respected professional rating in recreational scuba diving.  They are among the dive industry’s most influential opinion leaders and role models.