Become a PADI Pro

Specialty Instructor

Price  per person

100 $

course features

Length

7-10 Days
Location

Ho Chi Minh, Nha Trang, Phu Quoc
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Teach Specialty Courses
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Why Become a Specialty Instructor?

  • Deeper Dives: Expand your knowledge and expertise in a specific diving area.
  • Teaching Expertise: Gain valuable tips and hands-on experience to make your courses engaging and unforgettable.
  • Variety & Fun: Choose from over 25 standard PADI specialties and numerous distinctive options – there’s something for everyone!

Benefits for All PADI Professionals:

  • Enhanced Skills: All instructors benefit from specialty training, especially those aiming for the Master Scuba Diver™ Trainer (MSDT) rating (requires 5+ Specialty Instructor certifications).
  • Open Doors: PADI Assistant Instructors, instructor candidates, and Divemasters can qualify for certain specialties, expanding their career options.
  • Stay Ahead: Learn cutting-edge teaching methods and marketing strategies to attract more students.

The Learning Experience:

Specialty Instructor courses combine insightful theory with practical application. You’ll:

  • Deepen Your Knowledge: Enhance your expertise in your chosen specialty.
  • Refine Your Skills: Perfect your diving techniques and teaching methods.
  • Become a Master Trainer: Discover innovative ways to engage and inspire your students.
  • Market Like a Pro: Learn effective marketing strategies to promote your specialty courses.

Ready to take the plunge?

Contact your local PADI Course Director today! Explore the exciting world of specialty instructor training and share your passion for diving with the next generation of underwater explorers!

Note: Some specialties may have additional requirements. Ask your PADI Course Director for details.

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PADI Professional Levels Explained

PADI Professional Levels In Order of Achievement

  • Divemaster
  • Assistant Instructor
  • Open Water Scuba Instructor
  • Master Scuba Diver Trainer
  • IDC Staff Instructor
  • Master Instructor
  • Course Director

PADI Professionals are in demand around the world. If you’re interested in a full-time or part-time job that allows you to meet new people, travel and help our ocean planet, talk to your PADI Dive Shop or Instructor about next steps. Or, click the button below for more information.

Want to Live in Paradise?

When diving is your work, the ocean is your office; additionally, becoming a PADI Pro opens the doors to wherever you want to live and work.

We caught up with PADI Pros who have allowed their certifications and zests for life to take them on wild adventures. Each lives in their own slice of paradise and, like me, can credit diving, the ocean and becoming a PADI Pro with facilitating a fabulous life.

Ready to Become a PADI Pro?
As our PADI Pros know, becoming a dive professional opens many doors and allows you to create a life you love – in and on the water. So, do you think you have what it takes to go PADI Pro? We think you do, too! 

So what’re you waiting for?

PADI Professional FAQs

PADI is the world’s largest scuba diving training organization and the most widely recognized dive certification in the world, with 30,000,000 PADI certified divers and counting. PADI sets the standard for the highest quality dive training, underwater safety and conservation initiatives while promoting the benefits of underwater connection. With PADI eLearning you can study at your own pace to achieve the dive knowledge and fundamentals required to confidently advance to your in-water training. With over 6,600 PADI Dive Centers and resorts across the globe and 128,000 PADI Professionals worldwide it’s easy to complete your dive training.
PADI offers both recreational and professional dive certifications, with over 30,000,000 divers and counting. With a PADI professional scuba certification you can travel the world and do what you love or share your dive knowledge locally. As a PADI Divemaster or PADI Instructor, you’ll learn how to lead scuba dives and help others with their dive education.
One of the main reasons why the majority of dive instructors are PADI Instructors is the high-quality instructional curriculum designed to accommodate students at various levels with different learning styles. PADI Instructor Trainers (Course Directors) are some of the dive industry’s most experienced and elite scuba instructors.

Parts of the PADI Instructor Development Courses (IDC) will be easy for some and challenging for others. PADI Divemaster course is the first step to becoming a PADI professional. After 6 months with this certification and 60 logged dives you can enroll in PADI IDC. 100 logged dives are needed for the Instructor Examination. Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care (CPR and First Aid) training is also required within the past 24 months.

PADI Divemasters typically assist dive instructors with classes and lead certified divers on underwater adventures. If they work at a dive shop, Divemasters often fill scuba tanks, load scuba gear, check-in divers and help with other essential tasks. Divemasters may also:

  • Assist PADI Instructors with training and non-training diving activities
  • Lead Discover Local Diving programs
  • Accompany certified PADI Scuba Divers and Open Water Divers on dives
  • Assist PADI Instructors with Discover Scuba Diving® (DSD) programs
  • Help scuba divers refresh their skills with the PADI ReActivate® program
  • Teach Discover Snorkeling and PADI Advanced Snorkeler

PADI professional scuba instructors work all over the world in a variety of jobs. How much you earn as a PADI dive instructor depends on where and what you are teaching.

For example:

  • You might live and work on a liveaboard boat (where meals are included, and you also have a place to live).
  • At a local dive shop, you might get paid extra for selling scuba gear or repairing scuba equipment.
  • Experienced scuba instructors with a boat captain’s license can make very good money working on a superyacht and teaching private scuba lessons.
  • It’s also important to consider the personal benefits of completing Divemaster or dive instructor training. One of the most common comments from PADI Pros is how their training helped them succeed in the “real world”.

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