PADI Assistant Instructor (AI)

PADI Assistant Instructor

What can you do once your qualified?

Teach PADI Specialties such as Peak Performance Buoyancy and Project Aware.
Conduct lessons in Discover Scuba Diving, Bubble Maker programmes and PADI Seal Team Aqua Missions independently.
Present initial skills training under the instructor’s direct supervision during confined water training.
Conduct open water surface skill evaluation during open water diver course under the instructor’s indirect supervision.

What do you need to start the course?

Be a PADI Divemaster or leadership level with another diver training organisation.
Be 18 years old.
Have 60 logged dives with documented experience in night, deep and navigation diving.
Be a certified diver for at least six (6) months.
Medical clearance attesting to dive fitness signed by a physician with the previous 12 months.
Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary care course completion (or qualifying training) within the last 24 months.

You will also need a full set of diving equipment which includes exposure suit (7mm or higher), boots, hood, fins, mask, snorkel, BCD, Regs and dive computer. We can rent to you a full set of equipment. Contact us for special deals on gear.

Required Materials

You will need a full PADI IDC Crew pack which is included in the price of the course, an RDP and ERDP, PADI latest edition of students materials: Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Rescue and Divemaster. All of which can be purchased with us.

What will the course entail?

Academic Training

Developing and refining knowledge development presentations.
Teaching Snorkelling and PADI Discover Scuba programmes.
Teaching in Confined and Open Water Presentations.
Dive theory examination.
Teaching PADI Specialties such as Project Aware and Peak Performance Buoyancy.

Practical Training

In water confined and open water teaching.
Knowledge development presentations.
Skill quality demonstration.
Dive rescue scenario.

Practical Application

Rescue skills assessment.
Evaluation of skills.
Confined and open water teaching presentations.

Price

£849.00

This Includes:

PADI IDC Crew Pack.
Transport to and from dive site.
Cylinders, air and weights
All tuition.

Does not include:

PADI Assistant Instructor registration fees

Back To Go PRO

Your first fin kick to becoming an Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI).

Right, so you are a PADI DM or equivalent from another training organisation? And want to take your diving career to the next level? But you don’t want to become a full PADI Instructor, then the PADI Assistant Instructor is the course you want.

From this course you will gain invaluable experience as a PADI Professional and the PADI system of education, providing you with the confidence to teach knowledge development presentations as well as open water and confined water classes.

£849.00