PADI Master Instructor Rating Details

Be recognized as one of the elite dive educators – PADI Master Instructor. PADI Master Instructors embody the essence of a true dive professional having demonstrated a thorough understanding of the PADI system of diver education, and put it into practice by training 150 or more PADI Divers. They are dive industry leaders who help to shape the development of future dive courses.

The PADI Master Instructor rating is unique in the PADI System – it is the one rating that you do not earn through training. You earn it by exemplifying what it means to be a PADI Instructor in what you do.

Join the elite. Become a PADI Master Instructor today. Requirements include:

  • Be a renewed, teaching status IDC Staff Instructor.
  • PADI Instructor for at least two years.
  • Current Emergency First Response Instructor.
  • Certified at least 150 PADI divers
  • Possess a complete understanding of the PADI System of diver education
Master Instructor Course

For more information on becoming a PADI Master Instructor, please contact your local PADI Dive Center or Resort or explore more course options below.


PADI Open Water Diver CoursePADI Advanced Open Water Diver CoursePADI Rescue Diver couse and Emergency First Respopnse programWant it. Live it. Dive it. Master Scuba Diver.Take charge of your adventure. Become a PADI Divemaster.Be part of the way the world learns to dive.Teach the dive activities you love to do.Become a Master Scuba Diver Trainer. Click here to learn more.Pass on your experience as part of the IDC teamJoin the elite in diver education – become a PADI Master Instructor.Join the instructors who instruct the instructors: PADI Course Director.Click here for youngsters who want to blow bubbles underwaterGreat fun for children eight and aboveDiscover Scuba DivingThe underwater world needs heros. Be one. Learn how to conserve the aquatic environment.Find what you’ve lost with the PADI Search and Recovery Diver Specialty course.Dive nearly bubble free.Explore life in the underwater world.Find your way with the PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty course.Capture the moment with the PADI Underwater Photographer Specialty course.Set the underwater world in motion.Explore the past in the present with the PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course..Stay dry (and warm) while you dive. Click here to learn how.Be the one ready to help a fellow diver should the need arise by taking the PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider course.Increase your bottom time with the PADI Enriched Air Diver course.Learn more about your dive gear. No dives are required.Check out some really cool diving with the PADI Ice Diver Specialty.Get more dive time and more out of your computer with the PADI Multilevel Diver course.Continue the adventure with the PADI National Geographic Diver Specialty course.Go night diving and see the underwater world in a whole new light.Get the buoyancy control great divers have with PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy.Dive high with PADI’s Altitude Diver CourseWhat kind of fish was that? Click here.Click to giant stride into the PADI Boat Diver Specialty!Enter the PADI Cavern Diver Specialty here.Be part of the solution. Click to learn more about coral reef conservation.Click here to go deep with PADI.Take only pictures and leave only bubbles with the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty course.Scoot through the water. Click to learn more.Watch the world go by as you drift through your dive.  

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