Koh Tao Diving Information

Scuba Diving Courses on Koh Tao Thailand

The Role of a PADI Assistant Instructor

The Role of an Assistant Instructor:

Conduct all academic portions or any PADI course under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor.
During confined water dives, conduct the initial demonstration, under the direct supervision of a PADI Instructor.
Evaluate surface skills in open water for the dives in the open water course, under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor.
Train and brief divers taking the Peak Performance Buoyancy Speciality, under the direction of a PADI Instructor.
Independently teach the project AWARE speciality.
Independently teach the AWARE Coral Reef Conservation Speciality.
Independently conduct the Discover Scuba Diving program in a pool or in another confined water environment.
Independently lead the Aqua missions from the PADI Seal Team Program.
Train and brief student divers on non-diving specialities after having taken the corresponding speciality instructor training.

Prerequisites:

Be a certified PADI Divemaster or hold an equivalent certification from another training agency.
Be at least 18 years old
Submit as medical report signed by a doctor, confirming your suitability to dive. The medical certificate must be dated within the past year.
Have been a certified diver for at least 6 months and have 60 logged dives, demonstrating experience of night diving, deep diving and navigation diving.
Hold proof of first aid and CPR training dated within the last 24 months.
Supply relevant documentation including entry level and advanced certifications, rescue and leadership certified by another recreational diving training agency.

Materials:

Before starting your training you must have access to the following materials:

Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving.

Diving Knowledge Workbook.

RDP & eRDP ML.

Instructor manual and candidate workbook.

Peak performance buoyancy and AWARE specialty instructor outlines.

PADI Open water manual and exam booklet

PADI Adventures in diving manual.

PADI Rescue diver manual and exam booklet.

PADI Divemaster Manual and Final Exams booklet.

Slates: OW, AOW, Rescue, DM & DSD.

Scuba Diving Lesson preparation slates – confined and open water.