Open Water Diver & Dive Against Debris eLearning Bundle
Advanced Open Water & Enriched Air eLearning Bundle
Emergency First Response
FREE – Introduction to Scuba Diving Online
Marine Debris
Shark & Ray Protection
Adopt The Blue
Recycled Plastic Unisex Yellowtail Rash Guard
Recycled Plastic Unisex Wahoo Rash Guard
Great White Dive Flag Unisex Tee – Updated Fit!
Become a PADI Professional
Learn how to lead dives, assist with classes and be the diver everyone looks up to. Start your scuba career with Divemaster eLearning.
Become a PADI Pro and Start Living Your Dream
There are many reasons to become a PADI Divemaster or Scuba Instructor: to work and travel, to share your love of the underwater world with others, or simply for the personal challenge. Along the way, you’ll hone your scuba diving skills and emerge as a leader in the world’s largest community of divers bound together by a shared passion for adventure and ocean conservation.
This is Life-Changing
PADI Professionals live a life like no other, transforming lives while also leading the way in ocean conservation. Enter your details to download the Become a PADI Pro brochure and learn more.
Become a PADI Instructor
If you're a Divemaster and want to take your love of scuba diving to the next level, you're ready for the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC), which is made up of two parts - the Assistant Instructor (AI) course and the Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program. Most dive professionals complete the entire IDC and go on to attend an Instructor Examination (IE), which is the final step to earn a PADI Instructor certification. You'll build on your dive theory knowledge, role-model watermanship rescue skills and leadership abilities. After earning your PADI Instructor rating, you'll also join the ranks of the most sought-after dive instructors worldwide.
Now Hiring
As the leaders of the world's most requested diver certification, PADI Pros are in demand. Check out the latest dive jobs posted by PADI's vast network of dive shops and resorts.
Jumpstart Your Scuba Career With Tips From The Pros
PADI Professional FAQs
To become a PADI Pro, you must first complete the PADI Divemaster course which will hone your scuba diving skills and prepare you to assist scuba instructors and supervise diving activities. Next, you can go on to become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI), to build on your Divemaster knowledge and develop your teaching skills.
PADI offers both recreational and professional dive certifications, with over 30,000,000 divers and counting. With a PADI professional scuba certification you can travel the world and do what you love or share your dive knowledge locally. As a PADI Divemaster or PADI Instructor, you’ll learn how to lead scuba dives and help others with their dive education.
PADI professional scuba instructors work all over the world in a variety of jobs. How much you earn as a PADI dive instructor depends on where and what you are teaching.
- You might live and work on a liveaboard boat (where meals are included, and you also have a place to live).
- At a local dive shop, you might get paid extra for selling scuba gear or repairing scuba equipment.
- Experienced scuba instructors with a boat captain’s license can make very good money working on a superyacht and teaching private scuba lessons.
- It’s also important to consider the personal benefits of completing divemaster or dive instructor training. One of the most common comments from PADI Pros is how their training helped them succeed in the “real world”.
One of the main reasons why the majority of dive instructors are PADI Instructors is the high-quality instructional curriculum designed to accommodate students at various levels with different learning styles. PADI Instructor Trainers (Course Directors) are some of the dive industry’s most experienced and elite scuba instructors.
Parts of the PADI Instructor Development Courses (IDC) will be easy for some and challenging for others. PADI Divemaster course is the first step to becoming a PADI professional. After 6 months with this certification and 60 logged dives you can enroll in PADI IDC. 100 logged dives are needed for the Instructor Examination. Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care (CPR and First Aid) training is also required within the past 24 months.
Scuba diving jobs offer fantastic travel opportunities and a great way of life. They can also pay well. If making money doing what you love sounds like a dream job to you, it’s time to become a professional diver. Here are some high paying jobs for scuba divers.
- Military Diving & Police Diving
- Oil Rig Diving
- HAZMAT Diving
- Inland Commercial Diving
- Scientific Diving
- Underwater Construction
- Aquatic Performing Arts
- Safety Diver for Film & Television
PADI Divemasters typically assist dive instructors with classes and lead certified divers on underwater adventures. If they work at a dive shop, divemasters often fill scuba tanks, load scuba gear, check-in divers and help with other essential tasks. Divemasters may also:
- Assist PADI Instructors with training and non-training diving activities
- Lead Discover Local Diving programs
- Accompany certified PADI Scuba Divers and Open Water Divers on dives
- Assist PADI Instructors with Discover Scuba Diving® (DSD) programs
- Help scuba divers refresh their skills with the PADI ReActivate® program
- Teach Discover Snorkeling and PADI Advanced Snorkeler