1. Get certified as a PADI Open Water Diver

You must be certified as a PADI Open Water diver for six months before becoming a PADI Scuba Diving Instructor. The PADI Open Water Course is an entry-level scuba diving course. In this course, you will learn how to dive and learn the basic dive theory and the skills you will need to be able to scuba dive safely to a depth of 18 meters.

2. Get Your Advanced Open Water Certification

The PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course is the next in your journey to becoming a PADI Scuba Diving Instructor. In the PADI Advanced Open Water Course, You build upon the skills you learnt in the Open Water course over five separate dives. These include Deep diving to a maximum of 30 meters in-depth, you're underwater navigation skills and other skills such as buoyancy and night diving.

3. Become a Rescue Diver and EFR Trained

The PADI Rescue Diver Course is the last recreational diver course you need to take before becoming a dive professional. You will also need CPR and First Aid training through EFR to get certified as a recuse diver. In the PADI Rescue Diver Course, you learn how to deal with and save divers from various scenarios, from missing divers to panicking on the surface. You will learn how to perform a safe rescue.

4. Become A PADI Divemaster

Once You have 40 Dives and are a certified rescue diver, you can start the PADI Divemaster course, which is the first professional-level scuba diving course, before becoming an instructor. On the PADI Divemaster course, you will learn how to become a dive professional. You will know how to do role model skill demonstrations, how to lead divers on fun dives and how to give a briefing to be able to guide divers in a safe and fun manner.

5. The PADI Instructor Development Course or IDC

Once you complete your PADI Divemaster course and have logged 100 scuba dives, you can start the IDC. In the IDC, you will learn how to become a PADI Open Water Scuba Diving Instructor and learn how to teach students how to dive. You will learn more in-depth dive theory, How to brief, conduct and assess students' skills in confined and open water and how to correct student knowledge reviews by giving a classroom presentation. You will also learn how to safely teach and run a course to the PADI standards.

6. The Instructor Exam or IE After completing your IDC, you will participate in the 2-day instructor exam in which PADI Examiners examine you on your dive theory, your PADI Standards and Procedures, your skill teaching presentations in confined and open water and a classroom presentation. Once you pass all this, you will be a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.