PADI Assistant Instructor with Invicta Divers SCUBA School

The next step up from Divemaster is to become an Assistant Instructor.

If you thought that to progress from Rescue Diver to Divemaster was a large step, going for an Instructor Rating is a big leap by comparison.

As an Assistant Instructor, you will be able to evaluate surface skills for Open Water Students courses.   This is hugely responsible in itself - you must be totally sure that the candidates can master the skills you are evaluating, so that they can dive safely and competently without you when they are certified  - but it is also good practice prior to your step up to full Instructor rating.

There is a large amount of theory to master, more exams (!), and a crucial change in your thinking: you are preparing to take on the overall responsibility for students in the water, not just supporting others to pass on skills to aspiring divers, but beginning to teach them yourself; not just helping with safety, but actually being ultimately responsible for the safety and wellbeing of your students, and for progressing their learning.
You have to make sure that they not just do, but master, all of the skills and knowledge required for a given course, give encouragement but not stress, and complete the course in a reasonable time, but without pressure.  

Not everyone is cut out for this.   It takes a special kind of person who can sacrifice the personal pleasure derived from their own diving, in exchange for giving other people pleasure and satisfaction out of achieving their goals - and maybe changing their lives and helping them to realise their lifetime's dreams.


If you think you have what it takes to be an Assistant Instructor, please ask for details.

The next step up the PADI Pro ladder from Assistant Instructor is to become an Open Water SCUBA Instructor (OWSI) .....