PADI Assistant Instructor

The PADI Assistant Instructor Course builds upon your leadership skills and focuses on developing your abilities as a dive educator. The course is an ideal way to prepare for the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) and Instructor Exam (IE).

Prerequisites

• Be certified as a PADI Divemaster or leadership level with another recreational diver training organisation.
• Be at least 18 years old.
• Submit a medical statement for a diving medical examination, which states you are fit for diving, conducted within the past 12 months.
• Have completed and logged at least 60 dives.
• Successfully complete a knowledge and skill preassessment.
• CPR and First Aid Training within the last 24 months.

Course Requirements

• Complete all independent learning sections online through PADI eLearning.  Subject include General Standards and Procedures, Risk Management, Teaching PADI Specialty Diver Courses and others.
• Knowledge Development Teaching Presentation 1 and 2
• 4 Es Counseling Workshop 1
• Teaching in Confined Water
• Skills Demonstrations Workshop
• Confined Water Teaching Presentation 1 and 2
• Conducting Open Water Dives
• Open Water Teaching Presentation 1
• Rescue Exercise Workshop
• Present two knowledge development teaching presentations, scoring a minimum of 3.5 on at least one.
• Present two confined water teaching presentations, scoring a minimum of 3.4 on at least one.
• Present one integrated (two skills) open water teaching presentation, scoring a minimum of 3.4 on each skill.
• Perform all 20 dive skills in the Skill Evaluation, scoring a minimum of 68 total points, with no individual score below 3.
• Score 75 percent on the PADI Systems, Standards and Procedures Exam

Cost

The cost of the PADI Assistant Instructor Course is £300.  This doesnt include the PADI Instructor Crewpack - £350.  Also there is a £200 fee paid directly to PADI for the eLearning part of the program.