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Become an expert diver while earning the coveted Divemaster rating. Like most divers, you've probably thought of the lifestyle of the dive instructors you've known -- great diving, traveling, meeting new people, and, best of all, working in a job they love. The reality is that diving also offers a serious career opportunity.

As a blossoming, dynamic recreation, diving supports a growing industry, and opportunities for trained professionals abound -- from instructor/sales positions with retail dive centers to divemaster/instructor roles in the world's most exotic dive destinations and charter operators.

No matter what dive industry career you choose, the PADI Instructor credential is your best ticket to success. The overwhelming majority of dive operations throughout the world teach PADI courses, so it's only natural that PADI Instructors enjoy the most demand. As a professional dive educator, you'll want the highest level of training and support, and the widest array of educational materials -- these only PADI can provide.

PADI Divemaster

To begin reaching for a career in diving, either full or part-time, attaining the PADI Divemaster rating is your first step along the professional pathway. After you have become a certified Advanced Open Water Diver and Rescue Diver, you've reached a skill level that makes PADI Divemaster training available.

Working closely with a PADI Instructor, you'll expand your diving theory and knowledge to the professional level. Then, in an especially fulfilling aspect of the course, you'll learn PADI's carefully designed techniques for supervising diving activities and assisting divers with training.

The first step on the professional career path.

If your love of diving interests you in making it a career, the PADI Divemaster course gets you started. Designed to develop your leadership abilities and expand your diving knowledge to a professional level.

Whether or not you're on a career path, the Divemaster course can expand your capabilities and make you a better diver. The PADI Divemaster Manual covers the Role of the Divemaster, Dive Planning, Dive Management and Control, and the procedures you'll use when supervising divers in a variety of activities and environments.

The Divemaster Slates cue you with important guidelines for effective supervision. After training, you'll complete the Divemaster Application Package and send it to PADI.

Program Description

• A comprehensive program in three main phases: Watermanship, Knowledge Development and Practical Application
• Develops knowledge and watermanship skills to instructor level
• Qualifies you to assist PADI Instructors with students in training, and to conduct the Skin Diver, Discover Local Diving and Scuba Review programs.

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Assistant Instructor
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Your next step toward a dive career is the highly rewarding PADI Assistant Instructor course. In an internship relationship with your PADI Instructor, you'll gain hands-on teaching experience with students.

Program Description

• Hands-on teaching of actual students (under supervision).
• Experience with Open Water Diver, Advanced Open Water, Advanced Plus programs and Rescue Diver classes.
• The best internship for up-and-coming instructors.

If there is a course you'd like to see and don't see it listed above, just send an inquiry via e-mail .

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