PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer (prep) - Specialty Instructor

$1,499.00

PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer Specialty Prep Package at Squalo Divers

If you want to train your student divers to the highest non-professional recreational level in the PADI system—accomplishing the respected Master Scuba Diver rating—you will want to elevate your skill set to 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.

After the completion of the Instructor Development Course, you have an opportunity to achieve the Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) rating, through an additional three-day Specialty Instructor Program.

The MSDT rating prerequisites include five specialties and certifications of 25 students within any level of the PADI system of diver education.

The Program

Enrolling in the MSDT Prep 3-day program, you can choose to become instructor in five of the specialties posted below. Similar to the IDC, these are conducted personally by the Squalo Divers Course Director.

PADI Self-Reliant Specialty Instructor
PADI Enriched Air Specialty Instructor
PADI Oxygen Provider Instructor
PADI Deep Diver Specialty Instructor
PADI Night Diver Specialty Instructor
PADI Wreck Diver Specialty Instructor
PADI Drift Diver Specialty Instructor
PADI Fish Identification Specialty Instructor
PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty Instructor
PADI Underwater Navigator Specialty Instructor
DSAT Gas Blender Specialty Instructor
PADI Digital Underwater Photography Specialty Instructor

PADI Adaptive Techniques Specialty Instructor
PADI Search and Recovery Specialty Instructor
PADI Equipment Specialist Instructor
PADI Boat Diver Instructor
PADI Drift Diver Instructor
PADI Dry Suit Instructor
PADI Dive Against Debris Instructor
PADI Delayed Surface Marker Buoy Instructor
PADI Whale Shark Awareness Instructor
PADI Sea Turtle Awareness Instructor
PADI AWARE Shark Conservation Diver Instructor

MSDT Certification Requirements

Prerequisites

Proof of 10 logged dives in each specialty rating.

PADI Self-Reliant Specialty Instructor
PADI Assistant Instructor or PADI Instructor certification; or completed an IDC/OWSI Program within the past 12 months.
Assistant Instructors may become Specialty Instructors in only those specialty courses that do not include open water dives. IDC/OWSI candidates may apply for Specialty Instructor certification only after passing an IE.
Exception: Both Divemasters and Assistant Instructors may attend Digital Underwater Photographer and Emergency Oxygen Provider specialty instructor training courses. Divemasters also complete the Learning and Instruction Presentation for Divemasters.

Additional prerequisites for certain specialty instructor training courses:
Cavern – Full cave diver certification by a recognized cave diving certification organization.
Enriched Air – PADI Enriched Air Diver (or qualifying rating: trained in the procedures and use of enriched air nitrox for no-decompression diving with blends of up to 40 percent oxygen).
Semiclosed Rebreather – PADI Enriched Air Diver Specialty Instructor rating, a PADI Semiclosed Rebreather Diver certification (or qualifying rating) and documented experience specific to the particular Semiclosed rebreather unit.