The PADI Specialty Instructor Course

Overview

Dive more, have more fun and teach your favorite subjects.

Specialty instructor courses supply important teaching tips for meeting the requirements of the course.  You can choose from any of the 14 standard specialty courses that Davy Jones Locker has. Having five specialty instructor ratings is a prerequisite for the Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) rating.

Don’t see a dive specialty on a subject that really interests you? The why dont you write your own diving specialty! It’s easy and it gets you teaching scuba divers about things you like and realy interests you. After all if you find it intersting someone else is bound to.

What you Learn

You’re on your way to becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer with five PADI Specialty Instructor ratings. Completing the Specialty Instructor Training course is highly suggested as these courses provide invaluable hands-on training, technique demonstrations, course promoting information, up to date PADI Standards information and, when applicable, instructor-level open water training.

What you can Teach

You will be able to teach the PADI Specialties you like the most. Thereby making your already fun job even more enjoyable! Our current list of Specialty Instructor options are these:

Project Aware
Coral Reef
Peak Performance Buoyancy
Deep
Enriched Air
Night
Digital Underwater Photographer
Multi Level
Fish Identification
Diver Propulsion Vehicle
Search and Recovery
Wreck
Navigator
Emergency Oxygen Provider

The Fun Part

Whether it’s Deep, Photography, Enriched Air Nitrox or one of your own, PADI Specialty Instructors are out there scuba diving and training. Come join in the fun! As a PADI Specialty Instructor, challenge your students to become Master Scuba Diver Increase your marketability as a PADI Professional.

Our current list of Specialties is: