AAI Professional Level Training Courses

Your journey into dive leadership starts with the PADI Divemaster course and progresses to the PADI Assistant Instructor course. If you are interested in turning your dive adventures into a career, Aquatic Adventures can help you make your dream a reality. Check out the class descriptions below to find out more.

Professional Level Courses

Divemaster
Assistant Instructor

Dive leadership often involves assisting other divers. Here a PADI divemaster assists a diver with setting up her equipment.

PADI Divemaster

The PADI Divemaster course prepares students for a professional career in recreational scuba. Students learn how to plan professionally led dives, manage other divers in the water, and serve as certified assistants to PADI instructors during training activities. Students are required to demonstrate mastery of scuba skills, swimming proficiency, and a thorough knowledge of dive physics, physiology, equipment, and the use of both versions of the RDP. Students who complete this certification become PADI members.

Course start dates: January 24 at 6:00 p.m.. Email us for details or independent study..
Prerequisites: 18 years of age, PADI Rescue Diver, PADI Medic First Aid (within the last 2 years), 20 logged dives
Location: Aquatic Adventures, Inc.
Course cost: $275 (books, PADI application fee, and equipment rental not included)

PADI Assistant Instructor

The PADI Assistant Instructor course is designed to train PADI Divemasters in how to teach PADI scuba courses. Students are asked to conduct academic, confined water, and open water presentations. They are evaluated on their ability to follow the PADI microteaching approach to instruction. Once certified, PADI Assistant Instructors are allowed to teach the academic portion of the Open Water Diver course under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor and conduct the surface skills portion of open water training dives. In addition, Assistant Instructors may certify students in non-diving specialties such as Medic First Aid, Equipment Maintenance, and Oxygen Administration after they have completed specialty instructor training in these areas. The Assistant Instructor course is an excellent way for Instructor candidates to prepare for an IDC.

Course date: August 12-17, 2008
Prerequisites: PADI Divemaster or equivalent
Location: Aquatic Adventures, Inc.
Course cost: $275 (books, PADI application fee, and equipment rental not included)