 PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor Course
Go Pro - Change Your Life Today! The PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor program is your final step in the quest to become a PADI Instructor. During the OWSI program, you'll learn to use and adapt the PADI System of diver education to individual student needs. Comprehensive training, supported by a wide variety of PADI educational materials, earns PADI Instructors respect from both students and peers. PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors may conduct a broad range of PADI programs from Discover Scuba to Divemaster. If you are an instructor with a training agency other than PADI, the OWSI program is your entry into the PADI system. The OWSI programs provides you with an orientation to the system and helps establish your comfort with everything PADI has to offer. The PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor rating sets you apart from the crowd. PADI Instructors may conduct the entire range of PADI programs - from Discover Scuba through Divemaster. PADI Instructors do things others can only daydream about. If you want to live an extraordinary life, you're in the right place. 2008 Schedule All class & pool sessions at TGADC
Open Water Dives at Mermet Springs, IL | | May 3, 4, 10 & 11 | Branson IE - May 17 & 18 | | July 12, 13, 19 & 20 | Chicago IE - August 23 & 24 | | September 12, 13, 14, 26 & 27 | Chicago IE - October 4 & 5
St. Louis IE - October 11 & 12 | | November 1, 2, 15 & 16 | Ft. Lauderdale IE - December 6 & 7
Key Largo IE - December 13 & 14 |
Prerequisite - PADI Assistant Instructor certification or be an instructor in good standing with another training organization for at least six months (check with a PADI Course Director or PADI Office for qualifying credentials.)
- Hold a dive certification for at least six months
- Have 60 logged dives that include night, deep and navigation dives
- Proof of CPR training within the last 24 months
- Medical clearance signed by a physician
Post-requisite - Have at least 100 logged dives prior to entering a PADI Instructor Exam
Price $690.00 Includes - all of your classroom instruction (typically 28 hours)
- all your confined water sessions (typically 6 hours)
- all your open water training dives (typically 2 - 3 dives)
You are responsible for your own equipment, lodging, fills, admissions, books and materials, certification fees, etc. Required Materials - PADI Instructor Manual
- Instructor Candidate Workbook
- Open Water Lesson Planning Slate
- Confined Water Lesson Preparation Slate
- Open Water Aquatic Cue Cards
- Confined Water Aquatic Cue Cards
- The Law and the Diving Professional
- The Business of Diving
- Children and Scuba Diving
- The Best of The Undersea Journal
- Log Book
- Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty Instructor Specialty Instructor Outline
- Project AWARE Specialty Program Instructor Outline
- Aware Coral Reef Conservation Specialty Instructor Outline
- Open Water Diver Manual
- Recreational Dive Planner, eRDP, The Wheel and table, and Instructions for Use Booklets
- Open Water Diver Quizzes and Exam booklet
- Adventures in Diving Manual
- Rescue Diver Manual
- Rescue Diver Final Exams Booklet
- Divemaster Manual
- Divemaster Final Exams Booklet
These are the same materials used in the PADI Assistant Instructor course. |