After becoming a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) you'll want to teach divers specific types of diving dependant to what your local area offers and other interesting adventure courses. 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.
You can teach PADI Specialty courses to divers in a variety of exciting and fascinating areas from wreck diving, enriched air to underwater photography. The choices are endless - you can even develop your very own Specialty program!
To become a Specialty Instructor you have to be a PADI Assistant Instructor or Open Water Scuba Instructor depending on which Specialty you would like to teach!
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer
If you want to train your dive students to the highest purely recreational dive level in the PADI System of diver education, you'll want to be a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer. By attaining this level, your dive students will know where to come when they want to learn from an expert.
To be able to become a Master Scuba Diver Trainer you have to hold five PADI Specialty Instructor ratings and at least 25 certifications.