PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor

WHY YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE:

Teaching scuba diving allows you to share your love of the aquatic world with others while doing what you enjoy - being in, around and under water. Join Bruce Weitzenhoffer, our Gold Course Director, for your PADI Instructor Development Course! Bruce has extensive cold-water experience, more than 15,000 dives, and vast experience teaching and diving all over the world. Interested in living, diving and working in often challenging conditions? Become an instructor in the environment where you’ll teach. Even if you are planning to spend time in the tropics, the skills you learn here, in cold water, will serve you well anywhere in the world!  You will complete the PADI program that sets the standard for training dive professionals.​

• Key Prerequisite: Qualifying CPR & First Aid Instructor Credential

COURSE SCHEDULE:

WHAT YOU LEARN:

This is a two-part program – the Assistant Instructor (AI) Course, and the Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) Course. We also offer a one-day IDC Prep program to help set you up for success at the IDC.

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Here at Best SCUBA, we schedule our IDC to be both efficient and thorough to seamlessly synch with the two-day PADI Instructor Exam (IE) administered by PADI Staff typically scheduled for the weekend immediately following the completion of our Course. This timeline reinforces mastery retention of knowledge and skills to best prepare you for success at the IE and when teaching. We also offer a one-day IDC Prep Program that demystifies how to navigate through the PADI materials and includes a Skill Circuit Confined Water Session.

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IMPORTANT INFO & LINKS:

COURSE PRICING: $5,750

• Materials & Administrative Fees*: $3,000

  • *Includes: IDC Crew-Pak, Skill Development Prep Slate, Dive Theory eLearning

• Tuition: $2,750 (payable at first in-person session)

• Plus: $1,060 Examination, Certification & Processing Fees (payable to PADI)