Specialty instructor courses provide valuable teaching tips for meeting the requirements of the course. You can choose from any of the 27 standard specialty courses that PADI offers along with distinctive specialty courses your Course Director may offer. Having five specialty instructor ratings is a prerequisite for the Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) rating.
Don’t see a specialty on a subject that interests you? Write your own specialty! It’s easy and it gets you teaching scuba divers about things you like.
You’re on your way to becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer with only five PADI Specialty Instructor ratings. You have three ways to become a PADI Specialty Instructor:
| COURSE DIRECTOR TRAINED | DIRECTLY APPLICATION |
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Specialty Instructor Training course attendance is highly recommended. These courses provide valuable hands-on training, technique demonstrations, course marketing information, current PADI Standards information and, when applicable, instructor-level open water training.
You will need to equip yourself with all the basic scuba gear, some scuba accessories and depending on which specialties you teach, you’ll need other specialty diving gear such as dive lights or underwater photography equipment.
These outlines are also available digitally on the CD-ROM included in the PADI IDC Crewpack.
| Prerequisites: | PADI OWSI | None | |
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| Dive Gear: | Basic Package | Basic Package | |
| Next Step: | MSDT | IDCS Instructor | |
| Date: | Every Month | ||
| Price: | 95 | ||
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