PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI)

If you have a passion for scuba diving and want an extraordinary life - If you want to become a PADI Instructor. Teaching scuba diving allows you to share your love of the aquatic world with others while doing what you enjoy - being in, around and under water.

PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors and PADI Assistant Instructors are the most sought-after dive professionals around the world because they've completed the program that sets the standard for training dive professionals.

You earn a PADI Instructor rating through hard work and commitment, but you're rewarded with a job that lets you share incredible underwater adventures with others - transforming their lives for the better and enriching yours.

Are you ready to join the ranks of the dedicated professionals who teach the world's most progressive and popular scuba diver education programs? Then Go PRO with an Instructor Development Course.

The Instructor Development Course (IDC) 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.

Successfully completing PADI Open Water Instructor Course results in qualifying you to attaend 2 days Instructor Examination (IE). once passing your IE, you earn PADI Instructor rating.

Who Can Enroll on the PADI OWSI?

PADI Assistant Instructor or Instructor member with a recognized recreational diver training organization for at least six months.

You also need:

• At least 60 logged dives to start the OWSI Course and 100 dives to attend IE.
• Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care (CPR and First Aid) training within the past 24 months.
• You also need to be an Emergency First Response Instructor, but you can earn this rating during your instructor training.
• A medical statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months.

What Will You Learn?

Building on skills and abilities to organize and supervise scuba diving activities, during the OWSI course we will focus on developing teaching skills.

Over a minimum of five days, but usually more like seven, the AI teaches you to conduct some of PADI core courses. You'll be able to organize and present information, conduct skill development sessions and control open water dives. Basically, you become a better public speaker and get really good at demonstrating skills while watching out for student diver safety.

PADI Assistant Instructor Course has two parts; the online section and the Course Director or Staff Instructor led portion.

The online section includes the following subjects within the e-learning part of your digital Crew Pack.

1. Getting Started
2. Dive Theory for Dive Leaders
3. PADI System Overview
4. Learning, Instruction and the PADI System
5. Discover Scuba Diving and Experience Programs
6. The PADI Open Water Diver Course
7. Risk Management and Legal Considerations
8. Managing Risk
9. PADI Quality Management and Licensing
10. Open Water Training
11. Continuing Education and Leadership Courses
12. Business of Diving

The rest of the AI curriculum is Course Director led and consists of the following subjects:

• Orientation
• Dive Theory Workshop
• PADI System Workshop
• Discover Scuba Diving Workshop
• Open Water Dive Course Scheduling and Set Up Workshop
• Knowledge Development Presentation Workshop and Candidate Knowledge Development Presentations
• Skill Development Workshop
• Confined Water Training Workshop and Candidate Confined Water Teaching Presentations
• Open Water Training Workshop and Candidate Open Water Teaching Presentations
• Continuing Education Workshop
• Advanced Open Water Diver Course Workshop
• Rescue Diver Course Workshop
• Sales Techniques Workshop
• Course Close

What can I teach as PADI OWSI?

After passing your IE and earning the instructor rating you will be able to teach, 

• PADI Scuba Diver/Open Water Diver
• Adventure Diver/Advanced Open Water Diver
• Rescue Diver
• Divemaster
• Advanced Snorkeler (Skin Diver) and Discover Snorkeling
• Discover Scuba Diving
• PADI Seal Team and Bubblemaker
• PADI ReActivate and Discover Local Diving
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• PADI AWARE Specialty
• Coral Reef Conservation

Are you ready to begin your journey?

Contact us  for private counseling and to help plan your next steps as a dive professional. 

Your dream of becoming a PADI Pro starts today. Let us show you how!