PADI Assistant Instructor
Price on request
- Duration
- 4 to 5 days of academic presentations, confined water training and open water teaching practice.
- Needs
- PADI Divemaster (or equivalent from another agency). At least 60 logged dives. Minimum age 18.
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About the course
The PADI Assistant Instructor course is the first step into professional scuba instruction and the first part of the Instructor Development Course (IDC). It builds your teaching and dive theory and prepares you to work under the supervision of certified PADI Instructors.
At Lak Scuba, a PADI 5 Star Dive Center, you train with experienced instructors and work directly with student divers. You can stop at Assistant Instructor or go on to the full IDC.
Course prerequisites
- Be a certified PADI Divemaster (or equivalent from another agency)
- Be at least 18 years old
- Have logged at least 60 dives (including night, deep and navigation)
- Hold a current EFR certification (within the last 24 months)
- Have a medical clearance stating you’re fit to dive, dated within the last 12 months
What you’ll learn
The course blends classroom sessions, confined water practice and open water experience. You learn to:
- Present knowledge development elaboration, under an instructor’s indirect supervision
- Present initial skills training in confined water, under an instructor’s direct supervision
- Conduct open water surface skill evaluations, under indirect supervision
- Teach and certify the Peak Performance Buoyancy and AWARE Dive Against Debris specialties, under the direction of an instructor
- On your own, teach the AWARE and Coral Reef Conservation (non-diving) specialties, run Discover Scuba Diving in a pool or confined water for people not doing the optional open water dive, and run Bubblemaker and Seal Team AquaMissions
- Understand the PADI system of education, including its standards, structure and methodology
- Improve your public speaking, demonstrations and feedback to students