A PADI Specialty Instructor dives more, has more fun and teaches about favorite subjects. Don’t see a specialty on a subject that interests you? Write your own specialty! It’s easy and it gets you teaching divers about things you like. Whether it’s Boat, Deep, DUP, Photography, Enriched Air Nitrox , Navigation, Naturalist, Wreck or one of your own, Specialty Instructors are out there diving and training. Join the fun.

After becoming an Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) you'll want to teach divers specific types of diving dependant to what your local area offers. To do this you need to be able to teach PADI Specialties. By doing so you can heighten your students' comfort level and strengthening their underwater skills, ultimately leading to their enjoyment of diving more than ever before.

Specialty Instructors:

• Teach Specialty courses to divers in a variety of areas from wreck diving to underwater videography.

Prerequisites: *

• PADI Assistant Instructor or Open Water Scuba Instructor

* For more detailed information please refer to the Course Director Manual.

As a PADI Specialty Instructor:

• You're on your way to becoming a Master Scuba Diver Trainer with only five Specialty Instructor ratings

• You challenge your students to become Master Scuba Divers

• You increase your marketability as a PADI Professional

• There are three ways to become a Specialty Instructor – with a Course Director, use your experience to apply directly to PADI or write your own outline.

• You can teach courses that interest you!

• You can offer more, do more