Professional Classes

PADI Divemaster

Are you looking for something extraordinary? To do something others can only dream of? To help people transform their lives? To open doors you didn’t even know existed? All of this, and more, awaits you as a PADI Dive Master. The course expands your dive theory knowledge, enhances your watermanship skills, allows you to work with students in the confined and open water environments, teaches you how entertain future divers during experience programs and refresh skills of divers who haven’t been diving in a while. We meet weekly on a rotational schedule that doesn’t conflict with personal commitments but gives you the time to grow and progress at a pace that fits your lifestyle. As a PADI DM you will get to teach Discover Scuba, Scuba Tune-up, Skin Diver, Discover Local Diving and perhaps Digital Photo if you are interested.

Minimum Requirement: 18 years old, Rescue Diver and 40 dives

PADI Assistant Instructor

As a PADI Assistant Instructor, you not only gain additional experience as a PADI Pro but you also start learning the PADI system of diver education. You can act as an instructional assistant and assume limited teaching responsibilities. it’s a great way to gain experience in order to become an OWSI. This 5 session program includes learning to teach in the classroom, confined water, and open water environments along with familiarizing yourself with standards and procedures. As a PADI AI you will get to teach fun courses such as Peak Performance Bouyancy, Coral Reef Conservation, Project Aware, and maybe even Digital Photo.

Minimum Requirement: 18 years old and Dive Master or Dive Con Rating

PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor

The OWSI program is one of two distinct components of the Instructor Development Course – the core of PADI Instructor training. The program is a minimum of 5 days where we introduce you to the entire PADI System of diver education and concentrate on further developing your abilities as a professional dive educator. It’s about life transformations – both yours and those around you. You may be able to earn college credit and or Veteran benefits. The fun part of instructor training is interacting with others while creating friendships that continue long after the course concludes. Just ask Scuba Jim.

Minimum Requirement: 18 years old and PADI Assistant Instructor or Instructor from qualifying agency

PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC)

Ready for a new career or just to extend your passion locally, we can take you to the next level. The 10 day course: helps you expand your knowledge of dive theory, teaches to apply the PADI system to confined water skills, knowledge development presentations, and open water training, provides new career opportunities, expands your knowledge of scuba gear, enables you to meet and network with other dive professionals worldwide, provides you with professional continuing education options, and Let’s you do what you love! ARE YOU READY?
As a PADI professional, you’ll be part of the largest most widely recognized scuba training organization in the world with over 5900 dive centers and resorts on the planet, the world is your office – and your playground.
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Minimum Requirement: 18 years old and Dive Master or Dive Con Rating

Emergency First Response Instructor

CPR and First Aid are important skills that are in high demand. As and EFR Instructor you can teach ANYONE these valuable skills and earn a reasonable income. You will gain experience in how to structure learning, the requirements of performance-based training and your role as the facilitator in the learning environment for teaching CPR/First Aid. You will also learn how to motivate students, evaluate student knowledge, present course content effectively, become proficient in developing student’s hands-on skills practice sessions, and are taught how to present an effective scenario-based learning experience.

Minimum Requirement: 18 years old

PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer with extras

When you leave the IE as an Open Water Scuba Instructor, you will want to have all of the tools in your tool box to take students to their goals. You are eligible to teach the PADI system but specialties take a little more time to obtain. Let us load your toolbox and give you more teaching/earning opportunities when you start teaching. We have a MSDT prep for $550 that includes 6 specialties and handcrafted power points or you can for the gusto and choose 9 specialties for $850 and power points. Time required is based on specialties chosen.

Minimum Requirement: 18 years old and OWSI or registered in OWSI or IDC

PADI IDC Staff Instructor

So you are ready to assist the course director in creating assistant instructors and working on your Master Instructor. You will learn how to evaluate candidates, provide positive coaching, work hand-in-hand with the course director, present portions of the IDC, and independently teach the AI program. You will prepare classroom, confined water, and open water presentations and perform a skill circuit to get you ready to work a full IDC. A Staff Instructor is to a course director what a DM is to an instructor. We can do without them but why would we as they make our life easy. You will spend one extra day before attending a complete IDC.

Minimum Requirement: Master Scuba Diver Trainer

DAN Instructor

Are you interested in teaching some behind the scenes valuable information to your students, then DAN courses such as Oxygen Provider, Hazardous Marine Life, On-site Neurological Assessment, and DEMP/DES courses are for you. These we are all important courses to blend into your rescue classes.

Minimum Requirement: 18 years old and Dive Master or Dive Con Rating