Go PADI PRO and become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) or a PADI Assistant Instructor (AI) with an Instructor Development Course (IDC).
As a PADI Divemaster, you have already experienced the incredible joys of showing divers the fascinating underwater world. As a PADI OWSI, you will go a step further and take people for their very first dive adventures during their Open Water or Scuba Diver cert or during a DSD experience. You get to introduce the beginners to a whole new world and change their lives!
You don’t only get to introduce them to the great unknown, but you also get to set the bar for their behaviour underwater. It is a responsibility and great honour. Show them your enthusiasm for the big blue and help them to keep it safe. You will also be able to teach new and experienced divers, when they embark on their continuing education courses, where they learn more about the aquatic realm and their dive skills in the Advanced Open Water and Rescue Diver courses, for example. Teaching Divemaster courses will be your ultimate challenge, to convey all your knowledge and transform experienced divers into the dive guides and leaders of tomorrow.
Demonstrate dive skills to students easily, while never leaving them out of sight. You will learn how to teach the courses both in theory and practice. The course contains sections on PADI standards and procedures, the PADI system, risk management and diver safety, the business of diving, as well as marketing diving and sales counselling.
All IDC packs now come with (digital) PADI eLearning.
The 2025/2026 Digital PADI Instructor Development Course Crew Pack (60234) includes all the following digital products:
- IDC eLearning (Digital)
- Guide to Teaching (Digital)
- Open Water Prescriptive Lesson Guides (Digital)
- Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty Instructor Guide
- Project AWARE Specialty Instructor Guide
- Coral Reef Conservation Specialty Instructor Guide (TBR in 2020)
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OW Quizzes and Final Exam
- Rescue Diver Exams
- Divemaster Exams
- Diving Knowledge Workbook
- PADI Pro Bag
+ Slates:
- Open Water Cue Card
- Confined Water Cue Cards
- AOW Cue Cards
- Rescue Cue Cards
- DM Cue Cards
- PADI Skill Practice and Dive Planning Slate - Plastic
- Skill Development Preparation Slate - Plastic
The 2025/2026 Paper PADI Instructor Development Course Crew Pack (60249) includes:
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Guide to Teaching Manual
- Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty Instructor Guide
- Project AWARE Specialty Instructor Guide
- Coral Reef Conservation Specialty Instructor Guide (TBR in 2020)
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OW Quizzes and Final Exam
- Rescue Dive Exams
- Divemaster Exams
- Brochures
- Diving Knowledge Workbook (Digital)
- Card with Code includes 3 digital products below, IDC eLearning, OW PLG & GTT
- IDC eLearning (Digital)
- Open Water Prescriptive Lesson Guides (Digital)
- Guide to Teaching (Digital)
- PADI Pro Bag
+ Slates:
- Open Water Cue Card
- Confined Water Cue Cards
- AOW Cue Cards
- Rescue Cue Cards
- DM Cue Cards
- PADI Skill Practice and Dive Planning Slate - Plastic
- Skill Development Preparation Slate - Plastic
Get started by learning the theory with the 9 knowledge development sections with the PADI Instructor Development Crew Pack. Study independently at your own pace before starting your classes. Get in contact with a PADI Five Star Instructor Development Centre or Resort, to inform yourself about any upcoming IDCs.
Course requirements:
- Certified diver for at least 6 months
- PADI Divemaster (or equivalent)
- Emergency First Response (Primary and Secondary Care)
- Emergency First Response Instructor
- Minimum of 60 logged dives to begin the course and 100 dives to attend an IE
- Minimum age: 18 years
- A medical statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months
- Good swimming skills
This product price only covers your PADI Crew Pack. Additional fees apply for practical training, including dives, dive equipment, and certification.
