Become a PADI Pro

Freediver Instructor Training Course (FITC)

Price  per person

1.500 $

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About the Course

If you’re an avid freediver, you likely spend a lot of time thinking about freediving, talking about freediving and sharing the details your latest freediving adventures. Becoming a PADI Freediver Instructor lets you take your passion for freediving to the next level and allows you to do what you enjoy as a profession. You must earn the PADI Freediver Instructor rating, but you gain a job that lets you share incredible underwater achievements with others – transforming their lives for the better while enriching yours.

There are two paths to earning the PADI Freediver Instructor rating. The first is for experienced freedivers who gain instructional skills by attending a PADI Freediver Instructor Training Course. The second path is for freediver instructors who want to join the PADI organization by attending a PADI Freediver Instructor Orientation.

To enroll in a PADI Freediver Instructor Training Course, you must be:

Candidate #1:

  • at least 18 years old
  • have a PADI Master Freediver certification (or have a qualifying certification)
  • have completed EFR Primary and Secondary Care training within 24 months
  • present a medical statement signed by a physician within 12 months.

Candidate #2:

  • PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors (or higher rating)
  • have a PADI Advanced Freediver certification
  • current Emergency First Response Instructor (or qualifying CPR/first aid instructor)
  • present a medical statement signed by a physician within 12 months

Academic

The PADI Freediver Instructor Training Course during both classroom and inwater sessions cover these key topics:

  • PADI Freediver course standards and procedures
  • Learning and Instruction
  • Teaching Skills and Supervising Freedivers
  • Safety and Risk Management
  • Freediving Physiology and Psychology
  • Organizing and Marketing Freediving
  • Care for environment

Passing the PADI Instructor Exam (75%)

Candidates need to prepare the following items:

  • PADI Freediver Instructor Cue Cards (*)
  • PADI Freediver eLearning
  • Freediver set: mask, snorkel, bi-fins, wetsuit, weight belt, safety lanyard, freediving computer

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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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