Acquiring PADI Specialty Instructor certificates will allow you to offer additional courses and more specialties of primary interest to your students. Professionally, it is a qualification in demand by PADI centres and resorts.
The training of a Specialty instructor is done with a Course Director that teaches you how to organize, promote, and lead PADI Specializations courses. This course strongly emphasizes the importance of specializations in the training of divers.
Under the direction of a Course Director, you will learn how to present and promote the relevant specialization course, apply the main standards to the local conditions, explain and train people in a natural environment, while demonstrating the mastery of all of the objectives of the course and performing as required in open water. All of the specializations that are taught to diving students have their corresponding instructor specialization.
The acquisition of specialties allows you to advance your professional career, especially towards the PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer qualification.
Prerequisites: - To be a PADI Assistant Instructor, PADI Instructor, or having taken a complete IDC or Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) course during the previous 12 months - To provide proof of 10 logged dives in open water (20 for semi-closed rebreather) in the chosen specialization Note: For the Nitrox Instuctor course, it is also mandatory to use all of the teaching material of the PADI enriched air Nitrox specialty. Specific conditions apply to the Nitrox and Semiclosed rebreather specializations.
