PADI MSDT and Specialty Instructor

PADI Specialty Instructor courses, and the PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer (PADI MSDT) course, give you the opportunity to increase the number of PADI programs that you can offer your student divers. This provides the advantages of being more employable, having greater income potential, keeping your students coming back to you, and more diversity in your work as a PADI professional, all considered it’s a great move.

You can choose to take one instructor course at a time, or you can create an MSDT prep course package. As soon as you have completed the courses, and passed your PADI Instructor Exam, you will be able to start teaching them.

PADI MSDTs are able to teach at least five PADI specialties, the primary difference between Master Scuba Diver Trainers and Specialty instructors is MSDT’s can certify their students as Master Scuba Divers, which is an excellent diver retention tool, and enables you to offer recognition to your students who take diver training seriously. The MSDT rating is also a requirement for your development as a PADI professional as a PADI IDC Staff Instructor, or a PADI Tec Instructor.

Choosing which specialties to teach is an important step, they should be right for you. Firstly these should be topics that you are interested in, your enthusiasm is what will attract most of your students. Secondly there should be an opportunity for you to teach, if you will be working in an area where there are shipwrecks, then wreck diver is likely a good idea, without the wrecks it might not be the best investment of your time and money. There are some specialties which seem to have universal appeal, talk to us about your goals, we can help you pick a great training package.