Become a PADI Professional

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.

To become a PADI Pro, you must first complete the PADI Divemaster course, which will prepare you to assist scuba instructors and supervise diving activities. Next, you can go on to become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI). This will build on your Divemaster knowledge and develop your teaching skills

You tell your students to aim for PADI Master Scuba Diver. As a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) You can take them all the way!

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.