A highly desirable and rewarding internship, the PADI Assistant Instructor is your next step towards instructor. Becoming a PADI Assistant Instructor provides valuable hands-on teaching experience with students, all under the direct supervision of a PADI Instructor.

Course Prerequisites

• Be a certified PADI Divemaster or leadership level with another recreational diver training organisation
• Be at least 18 years old
• Submit a medical clearance for diving signed by a physician, attesting to fitness to dive
• Have completed and logged at least 60 dives.

The PADI Assistant Instructor teaching opportunities

• Certifying students as PADI peak Performance Buoyancy Divers
• Conduct the Complete Discover Scuba experience
• Conducting the Emergency First Response  Course
• Certifying students in non-diving specialities such as Equipment Specialist

The course consists of 3 modules

• Academic Training
• Independent Study
• Practical Application

Academic Study

• Assistant Instructor Course Orientation
• The PADI System of Diver Education
• Effective Academic Teaching Presentations
• How to Organise and Conduct PADI Experience Programs
• How to Organise and Conduct the Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality Diver Course
• Teaching in Confined Water
• Conducting Open Water Training Dives

Independent Study

• Individual and programmed instruction
• Experience program standards
• Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality Dive Course Standards
• Confined Water Standards and Management
• Open Water Training Dive Standards
• The Dive Industry and PADI
• General Standards and Procedures
• The Business of Diving
• Legal Responsibility and Risk Management
• The Recreational Dive Planner Background and Use

Practical Application

• Presentation from the Open Water Course
• Presentation from the Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality Course
• Presentation from a continuing education course
• One module/class session from the Open Water, Adventure, Rescue or Divemaster course
• One water teaching presentation from the Open Water Course
• One water teaching presentation from the Skin Diver Course
• One open water teaching presentation from the Open Water Diver Course
• One open water teaching presentation from the Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality Diver Course