CLASSES: Professional Courses - 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 that assistant instructors develop during their training allow them to independently conduct several PADI programs, and with further training they may also teach non-diving specialty courses, as well as the Emergency First Response program. 

Prerequisites
To enroll in a PADI Assistant Instructor course, you must:

• Be certified as a PADI Divemaster or leadership level with another diver training organization.
• Be at least 18 years old.
• 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.
• 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.)
• Submit proof of CPR and first aid training within the last 24 months.
• 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.)
• If not a PADI Divemaster, successfully complete the PADI Divemaster course dive rescue assessment.

Course Costs
The PADI Assistant Instructor course offered at Wet N Rugged Sports includes:

• 24 hours of classroom lecture and practical application experience.
• Pool experience and practice working with actual beginning students.
• PADI Instructor Candidate Workbook, PADI Instructors Manual (paper version) and Instructor Development Crew Pack.

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