PADI Professional Training  

PADI Divemaster Course

Your adventure into the professional levels of recreational diving begins with the PADI Divemaster program. Working closely with a PADI Instructor, in this program you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. PADI Divemaster training develops your leadership abilities, qualifying you to supervise dive activities and assist instructors with student divers. 

During the PADI Divemaster program, you learn dive leadership skills through both classroom and independent study. You complete water skills and stamina exercises, as well as training exercises that stretch your ability to organize and solve problems. You put this knowledge into action through an internship or series of practical training exercises.

Course Structure : 15+ days (various)

PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor - Assistant Instructor (IDC)

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.

Be part of the magic and adventure of scuba diving.
Start today to become part of the way the world learns to dive.
Become a PADI Instructor.

Course Structure :
AI      - 3 days (2 dives + academics + CWD)
OWSI - 4 days (4 dives + academics + CWD)

PADI Status Update Program

If you are already a qualified PADI Scuba Diving Instructor....Do you feel rusty because it is a while since you taught any courses? Are you up to speed with the latest PADI Standards? Are you confident using the latest PADI media and materials? Do you need to complete a PADI Status Update Program to regain your teaching status? If you have answered yes to any of the above questions, this is the program you will need. It includes: Teaching Review, New Guidelines, New PADI Materials Orientation, PADI General Standards and Procedures Update, etc.

Course Structure : various (please check with your PADI Office first: the duration and the contents of the program are stated according to the period of inactivity of the PADI member)

PADI Specialty Instructor Course

A PADI Specialty Instructor dives more, has more fun and teaches about favorite subjects. Whether it’s Ice, Deep, Photography, Enriched Air Nitrox or one of your own, PADI Specialty Instructors are out there diving and training. Join the fun. Check below all the different PADI specialties.

Course Structure : 1 to 2 days (various)

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PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer prep Course

You tell your students to aim for PADI Master Scuba Diver. You also want to tell them that you can take them all the way there because you’re a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer. The Master Scuba Diver Trainer rating sets you apart from other dive instructors by showing your commitment to continuing your dive training and being prepared to help others continue their training as well.

You’re a new instructor? Just finished the IE? No problem. Seek PADI Specialty Instructor Training and the Master Scuba Diver Trainer Prep Course.

To qualify as a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, you must be a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor with five PADI Specialty Instructor certifications, and you must have certified at least 25 PADI Divers.

Course Structure : 2 to 3 days (5 to 12 dives + academics)

PADI IDC Staff Instructor Course

As a seasoned PADI Instructor, you have wisdom and experience to share with up-and-coming PADI leaders. And, you know that continuing your education never ends. As an Instructor Development Course (IDC) Staff Instructor, you help bring up the next generation of PADI Instructors while gaining in-depth instructor-trainer knowledge. Because IDC Staff Instructors are an integral part of the PADI IDC, you set the stage for moving on to PADI Course Director as you present topics in the IDC and help shape PADI Divemasters and Assistant Instructors into PADI Open Water Instructors.

In addition to all the courses you can teach as a PADI Instructor, you can also:

• Teach PADI Assistant Instructor courses
• Assist PADI Course Directors in conducting the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC)
• Assist PADI Course Directors in conducting instructor-level continuing education

Course Structure :
Option A: 10+ days (2 to 6 dives + academics + CWD)
Option B: 3 days (2 to 6 dives + academics + CWD)

PADI IDC Staff Instructor Update

For PADI IDC Staff Instructors who need to be updated, here's the step to take. This update covers many of the new PADI training materials available, which include new lesson guides, new training videos, and new teaching presentation videos, including academic, confined water and open water portions. It gives also an overview of the curriculum changes, which largely affect Instructor Development, and of the new PADI's e-Learning initiative. Most notably, an emphasis on awareness is included and the control and delivery evaluations have been split. The new curriculum changes are effective now since March 2007. 

Course Structure : 1 day (academics + CWD)

PADI Master Instructor Rating prep Course

Be recognized as one of the elite dive educators – PADI Master Instructor. PADI Master Instructors embody the essence of a true dive professional having demonstrated a thorough understanding of the PADI system of diver education, and put it into practice by training 150 or more PADI Divers. They are dive industry leaders who help to shape the development of future dive courses.

The PADI Master Instructor rating is unique in the PADI System – it is the one rating that you do not earn through training. You earn it by exemplifying what it means to be a PADI Instructor in what you do.

Join the elite. Become a PADI Master Instructor today.

Requirements include:

• Be a renewed, teaching status IDC Staff Instructor
• PADI Instructor for at least two years
• Current Emergency First Response Instructor
• Certified at least 150 PADI divers
• Possess a complete understanding of the PADI System of diver education

Course Structure : 3 to 4 days (academics) 

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DISTINCTIVE SPECIALTY INSTRUCTOR COURSES

Full Face Mask Diver

This course is designed to introduce divers to the Ocean Reef Neptune II Full Face Mask and develop the knowledge, skills and techniques necessary to use this type of FFM. This course reviews the planning, organization, procedures, potential problems and hazards associated with full face mask diving and teaches the use of an underwater communication system.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

Azimuth Rebreather Diver

The purpose of the Azimuth Rebreather Diver specialty course is to familiarize divers with the pleasure of diving with semiclosed rebreathers in general and of diving wih the Azimuth rebreather in particular. This course is intended to provide the necessary training to acquire and develop the skills needed to be able to enjoy in total safety semiclosed rebreather diving.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 2 OWD)

Delayed SMB Diver

This course covers the knowledge and techniques required for the safe use of Surface Marker Buoys and delayed Surface Marker Buoys. They are used to allow shore cover / boat support to identify an ascending diver, alert boat traffic to the presence of a diver, provide a visual reference for ascending divers.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

Recompression Chamber Awareness

The purpose of the Recompression Chamber Awareness distinctive specialty is to provide a safe and well supervised introduction to a hyperbaric or recompression chamber facility and the possible treatment therein. The goals of the training here are to introduce divers to the recompression chamber and to enable divers to safely take part in a recompression chamber dive to a maximum of 18 metres.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 in-chamber dive)

DAN Oxygen Provider

This distinctive specialty was written upon the DAN Oxygen Provider course. Please see the standardized PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider.

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PADI SPECIALTY INSTRUCTOR COURSES

PADI Altitude Diver

Any time you’re diving at 300 to 3000 metres/1000 to 10,000 feet above sea level, you're altitude diving. If you want to explore the hidden world of a mountain lake, the PADI Altitude Diver Specialty course is for you. The PADI Altitude Diver Specialty course familiarizes you with the rules and procedures necessary for altitude diving, including how to use the Recreational Dive Planner at altitude.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

AWARE Fish ID

Have you ever asked yourself, "What was that?”

The PADI Project AWARE Fish Identification Specialty course provides you with the fish identification basics so that next time, you know the answer.

During two dives you gain hands-on experience in looking for and identifying the fascinating fish you see underwater. You can learn more about Project AWARE by going to www.projectaware.org.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

PADI Boat Diver

Whether you’ve never made a boat dive or you’ve logged dozens, the PADI Boat Diver Specialty course can benefit almost every diver because different boats in different parts of the world do things differently. The PADI Boat Diver Specialty course familiarizes you with the various ways you stow gear, enter and exit the water, use surface lines and more, depending upon the type boat and the location.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

PADI Cavern Diver

If you dive within the light zone of a cave, the area near the cave entrance where natural light is always visible, you're cavern diving. If you want to explore secrets hidden in caverns around the world you'll want your PADI Cavern Diver certification. During this course you will learn to use the equipment and procedures that allow you to explore such areas safely. This is a challenging and very exciting course that includes four training dives over at least two days.

Course Structure : 2 days  (academics + 2 OWD)

PADI Coral Reef Conservation

The AWARE - Coral Reef Conservation Specialty course teaches divers, snorkelers and nondivers about the vital role of coral reefs in the marine environment. The course also familiarizes participants with the current state of the world's coral reefs and how they can help.

There are no dives or age limits. Divers and nondivers alike enjoy learning about the aquatic environment.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics)

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PADI Deep Diver

The Deep Diver Specialty course offers you the opportunity of a lifetime - going deep to see things others can only dream about.

In this course you will experience what it’s like to dive beyond 60 feet.

Down there, it’s different. It takes additional training. Here’s where you get it.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 2 OWD)

PADI Digital Underwater Photographer

Digital has taken the underwater photography world by storm. Get in on the action with the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course. You can quickly and easily capture the underwater world with your camera and on your computer.

During the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course, you learn to use the PADI SEA (Shoot, Examine and Adjust) method, which takes full advantage of digital technology. The result is good underwater photos faster than you may imagine. You not only learn how to take good photos, but how to share them with your friends via email or printing, optimizing your work with your computer, storage and more.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 2 OWD)

PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle 

These things are a blast to ride!

DPV’s offer a thrilling way to see a lot of underwater territory in a brief amount of time. They scoot you through the water without kicking. Want to visit that offshore reef from the beach? A DPV may be the way to go.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

PADI Drift Diver

The PADI Drift Diver Specialty Course introduces you to the coolest magic carpet ride you’ll ever experience. This course shows you how to enjoy rivers and ocean currents by “going with the flow,” staying with your dive partner, communicating with the dive boat and knowing where you are the whole time.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

PADI Dry Suit Diver

Wanna stay warm and toasty on a dive? Then stay out of the water. What? Stay out of the water? Yes! Unlike a wetsuit, a dry suit seals you off from the outside water. In the PADI Dry Suit Diver Specialty course, you’ll learn how to use a dry suit. And that keeps you warm! Even in very cold water.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

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PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider

Be the one ready to help a fellow diver should the need arise by becoming a PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider. The PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider Specialty course is an entry-level emergency oxygen course that also teaches you how to recognize dive illnesses treatable by emergency oxygen. Though suited for divers, this course has no prerequisites and doesn’t include dives, which means it is equally applicable to those who are around divers – boat crew, nondiving buddies, lifeguards, and shore staff. You don’t need any previous CPR or first aid training to take the course.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + workshop)

PADI Enriched Air Diver

Welcome to one of PADI’s most popular specialties – the PADI Enriched Air Diver course. Diving with enriched air nitrox lets you safely extend your no stop time beyond the no decompression limits for air. Diving with enriched air means more time underwater – but you need to be certified as an Enriched Air Diver to get enriched air fills.

Whether you’re into underwater photography or wreck diving, on vacation in some tropical paradise or just out for a leisurely day of diving at your local dive site, the PADI Enriched Air Diver course helps you get more out of diving by giving you more time underwater.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics)

PADI Equipment Specialist

Want to know about how your dive gear works? Then the PADI Equipment Specialist course is for you. This course familiarizes you with the operation and maintenance of your dive equipment. The more you know about how your gear works, the more comfortable you are with it, the more performance you get from it and the better you can care for it.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + workshop)

PADI Ice Diver

If the spirit of adventure and unusual, challenging diving appeals to you, try diving under the ice. Ice diving opens a new and different view of familiar dive sites. During the PADI Ice Diver course, you dive with a PADI Professional in one of the most extreme adventure specialities recreational diving offers. If you like fun, people and a challenge, you’ll love the PADI Ice Diver Specialty course.

Course Structure : 2 days  (academics + 2 OWD)

PADI Multilevel Diver

Do you want to maximize your dive times? (Of course). Want to get the most out of your dive computer and The Wheel^TM? (Naturally). Then the PADI Multilevel Diver Specialty course is for you.

In this course, you learn how to plan dives that extend your bottom time by crediting you for slower nitrogen absorption when you ascend to a shallower depth. That’s the way you really dive, after all. You’ll learn to use The Wheel^TM version of the RDP for planning multilevel dives, making it a great companion for your dive computer (as well as a way to make multilevel dives if you forget to bring your computer).

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

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PADI National Geographic Diver

Continue the adventure with the PADI National Geographic Diver Specialty course. During the course, you join an elite group of divers who are more than tourists, but explorers, adventurers and conservationists.

As part of the National Geographic Diver Specialty course, you fine-tune your buoyancy, then set off on your exploration project. Whether it’s a survey of plant life or a study of water temperature variation, this project is your chance to think, observe and document like those who dive for science and discovery. On your next dive you’ll hone your navigation skills, then you’ll dive into an aquatic life exercise – which may also be part of your exploration project.

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PADI Night Diver

As the sun sets, you don your dive gear, slip on your mask and bite down on your regulator. A deep breath and you step off the boat – into the underwater night. Although you’ve seen this reef many times before, this time you drop into a whole new world and watch it come to life under the glow of your dive light.

The adventure, thrill and excitement of night diving can be yours when you complete your PADI Night Diver Specialty course. You learn about night dive planning, equipment and navigation. You practice these on three night dives, plus introduce yourself to the whole new cast of critters that comes out after the sun goes down.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy

Float effortlessly, drifting over reefs. Be the diver you want to be, with ultimate buoyancy control, able to hover close to the bottom and examine underwater organisms without touching them.

Buoyancy skills separate the good divers from the great divers. In the Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course, you will learn to how to precisely weight yourself for optimum control, poise and balance. You learn to ascend and descend so effortlessly, it seems like you only think about it and it happens. By mastering streamlining, you move through the water cleanly, efficiently and gracefully. You swim near fragile environments without harm to them or yourself.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

Project AWARE

The underwater world needs heroes. You can be one of them by championing the causes of the world’s most fragile and important aquatic ecosystems. Sign up for the Project AWARE Specialty course to learn about some of the most pressing problems facing these vulnerable environments and everyday actions you can take to help conserve them. It’s informative, interesting and most importantly, you learn how to make a difference.

Project AWARE Foundation is the dive industry’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving the aquatic environment through education, advocacy and action. Besides completing the Project AWARE Specialty course, you can become a partner in the efforts to preserve the underwater environment. Click here to find out how.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics)

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PADI Search and Recovery

Spend time around water (as a diver, how can you avoid it?) and sooner or later, you come across someone who lost something underwater. If you’re looking for the challenge and excitement – along with doing your good deed for the day – the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course is for you. It gives you the skills you need to find what’s been lost, and how to get it to the surface.

In the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course, you learn search and recovery dive planning, organization, procedures, techniques and how to deal with potential problems. You learn how to locate large and small objects using search patterns, and various ways for lifting them to the surface. Not only do these skills make you more capable and confident in the water, but most Search and Recovery Divers eventually end up searching for and recovering something they lost themselves.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 2 OWD)

PADI Semiclosed Rebreather (Draeger Dolphin/Draeger Ray/Draeger Atlantis I)

Imagine sliding through the water, accompanied not by the roar of bubbles, but by silence. Imagine getting close and personal with aquatic life – getting closer than ever before. When you dive with a semiclosed rebreather, you’re nearly bubble free – reducing the noise and disturbance that can scare away shy creatures.

Through either the Semiclosed Rebreather Draeger Dolphin/Atlantis Specialty course or the Semiclosed Rebreather Draeger Ray Specialty course you learn the special procedures for semiclosed rebreather diving. This includes special dive planning, organization, procedures and potential hazards, many of which differ significantly from conventional (open circuit) scuba.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 2 OWD)

PADI Underwater Naturalist

Are you fascinated with aquatic life? Always wondering what that fish is and why it always dances under a coral head whenever you get close? If you’re engrossed with life under the surface, the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course is especially for you.

In your journey to underwater naturalist, the course teaches you about the different major aquatic life groupings and how they interact so that you understand what you observe in the underwater environment. With the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course under your belt, you see the aquatic world differently. You don’t see “fish,” but individual species with distinct strategies for surviving in a complex, interactive ecosystem.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

PADI Underwater Navigator

Be the diver everyone wants to follow and make your sense of direction legendary with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course. When everyone’s buzzing about a reef or checking out a wreck, they’re having a great time – until it’s time to go. Then they turn to you, because as a PADI Underwater Navigator, you know the way back to the boat.

Underwater navigation can be challenging, but in the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course, you master the challenge.You learn the tools of the trade, including navigation via natural clues and by compass. You learn to estimate distance underwater, follow navigation patterns and know where you are while following an arbitrary, irregular course using the Nav-Finder.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

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PADI Underwater Photographer

Freeze time with an underwater camera and you tell a story that even nondivers can understand. Not only that, but you have a record and log of your adventures – more than the memories. Reliving a dive is as simple as looking at a photograph.

Whether you’re a casual holiday snapper or a consummate photo pro, the PADI Underwater Photographer course teaches you the basics as they apply to taking photos underwater, with a special emphasis on practical techniques.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

PADI Underwater Videographer

Other than taking someone diving, there’s only one way to show someone the sounds, motion and dynamics of the underwater world. It’s underwater videography –motion imaging that allows you to share and document your underwater adventures. The PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course shows you how to create videos that are interesting, entertaining and worth watching again and again.

The PADI Underwater Videographer Specialty course introduces you to underwater video equipment and videography fundamentals, such as exposure, focus, shot types, moves, story line and shot sequencing. It takes you through the post-dive editing process where you take your raw footage and create an underwater masterpiece. By the time you complete the course, you’ll have gone through the entire basic video production process.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 1 OWD)

PADI Wreck Diver

You drift down and pass through a window into the past. As you near the bottom, a recognizable shape begins to form. First, you see a straight line, then a round window. Next, a ship materializes in front of you. As you look at the wreck, past and the present meet.

Whether sunk intentionally or tragically, whether a sunken ship, a plane or an automobile, the call of wrecks is nearly irresistible to divers. Through the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course, you get the skills, knowledge and procedures you need to answer the call of wreck diving.

Course Structure : 1 day  (academics + 2 OWD)

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