Assistant Instructor
The Associate Instructor is able to teach lecture and pool classes without supervision, assist with open water training, and is qualified to become an Open Water Instructor.
Certified and active Associate Instructors (AI) are even allowed to conduct limited Specialty Course training for the following programs and issue certification independently:
- Equipment Techniques
- Digital Underwater Photography
- Navigation
- Shark Diver
- Underwater Photography
- Boat Diving
With additional training an Associate Instructor can also become a SCUBA RANGERS Instructor.
Are you looking for something extraordinary? To do something others can only dream of? To open doors you didn’t even know existed? All of this, and more, awaits you as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.
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Become a PADI Instructor.
To qualify for training as a PADI Open Water Instructor, you must:
- PADI Assistant Instructor certification or be an instructor in good standing with another training organization for at least six months (check with a PADI Course Director or PADI Office for qualifying credentials.)
- Hold a dive certification for at least six months
- Have 60 logged dives that include night, deep and navigation dives
- Proof of CPR training within the last 24 months
- Medical clearance signed by a physician
- Want a fun and exciting career!