PADI Assistant Instructor

PADI Assistant Instructors are dive educators who assist with, organize and supervise knowledge development, confined water and open water activities. Assistant Instructors work in partnership with PADI Instructors to provide student divers with quality knowledge and skill development during PADI programs. The teaching skills Assistant Instructors develop during their training allows them to independently conduct several PADI programs, and with further training they may also teach nondiving specialty courses, as well as the Emergency First Response program.


Prerequisites:

This is a professional study programme, so obviously you must already be a competent diver before starting this course - more specifically, you must fulfil these minimum requirements:

  1. Be certified as a PADI Divemaster or leadership level with another diver
    training organization.
  2. Be at least 18 years old.
  3. Submit a Medical Statement for a diving medical examination conducted within
    the past 12 months. A licensed physician must sign the form and state that the
    candidate is fit for diving. The physician signing the medical clearance cannot
    be the applicant.
  4. Have been a certified diver for at least six months and have completed and
    logged at least 60 dives showing experience in night diving, deep diving and
    underwater navigation. (as documented in the individual’s log book)
  5. Submit proof of CPR and first aid training within the last 24 months.
  6. Submit documentation of any qualifying certifications for entry-level, advanced, rescue and leadership-level issued by another recreational diver training organization. (PADI Members who have these records on file at their PADI Office do not need to resubmit.)
  7. If not a PADI Divemaster, successfully complete the PADI Divemaster course dive rescue assessment.

You need not have taken PADI courses to meet these requirements - the equivalents from some other organizations are perfectly acceptable, such as BSAC, SSI, etc. If in doubt, contact us

If you would like to do this course and do not yet meet the minimum requirement, no problem. We can teach you everything you need.


Schedule:

The Assistant Instructor course is taught over one week with some theory, knowledge presentations, confined water and open water sessions.


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Where to from here?

The next logical step is PADI Instructor

If your intention is to be certified as both a PADI and SSI Instructor, it's quick and easy to convert from being a PADI Instructor to an SSI Instructor. The same is NOT true in reverse. If you should qualify as an SSI Instructor first, you will still have to go through the complete PADI professional programme from scratch if you wish to then qualify as a PADI Instructor.


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A typical Mae Haad sunset. Mae Haad is Koh Tao's main village where Master Divers is situated, and this is part of the scene from our sunset view bar.
Sairee beach, about ten minutes walk from Mae Haad, is the largest beach on Koh Tao. Despite the tranquility of this beach during the day, at night it becomes Koh Tao's party capital. The beach is lined with bars and clubs which keep bumping till the early hours.
Accommodation options on Koh Tao vary from basic but clean rooms through to luxury suites. Most common is the beach bungalow: usually equipped only with a fan and a cold shower (but sometimes television, DVD player, fridge, hotshower and air conditioning), they are set right on the beach or in beautiful gardens with a balcony to chill out and soak up the vibe.
Nudibranch means 'external lung'. These critters are found in various shapes, sizes and disguises all around Koh Tao, but without the benefit of your Divemaster's local knowledge, you'll probably never find one.
Whale Sharks are what we're famous for. Koh Tao is a normal stopping off point for Whale Sharks on their annual trips around the world so they're relatively common here. They're completely harmless plankton feeders and the ones we see here range in size from 2.5 metres to 7 metres long.
Scorpion fish are very difficult to spot - their excellent camouflage helps them blend almost perfectly with the reef on which they resolutely sit.

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