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Minimum Required Materials: The PADI Dive Center, Resort, and/or Instructor conducting a course must ensure that student divers have, in their possession, a personal set of materials (as defined in the list of required materials for the course), for study and use during the course and for reference afterward; unless the materials are not available in a language understood by the student diver.

Student divers must have a current version of the required materials.

(Effective 1 January, 2006 (Rev 3/10)

PADI Instructor Development Course (Assistant Instructor, Open Water Scuba Instructor)

Required Materials

Recommended Materials
PADI Instructor ManualPADI’s Guide to Teaching OR PADI Instructor Candidate Workbook*
PADI Specialty Instructor Manual (or these specialty course instructor guides:

  • Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty Instructor Outline
  • Project AWARE Specialty Instructor Outline
  • AWARE – Coral Reef Conservation Specialty Instructor Outline

PADI Open Water Diver Manual

RDP – both versions (Table and eRDPML including associated Instructions for Use booklets)

How to Use and Choose Dive Computers book

Open Water Diver Quizzes & Exam booklet

PADI Adventures in Diving Manual
PADI Rescue Diver Manual
Rescue Diver Final Exams booklet
PADI Divemaster Manual
Divemaster Final Exams booklet
Aquatic Cue Cards – for Open Water Diver, Adventures in Diving, Rescue Diver, Divemaster and Discover Scuba Diving
Confined Water Lesson Preparation Slate
Open Water Training Dive Lesson Planning Slate

Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving

Diving Knowledge Workbook (or eRecord for Dive Theory Online)

*(depending on which IDC/OWSI/AI course version CD/IDCS is conducting)

 All PADI professional videos
All PADI diver videos
PADI Specialty Diver ManualsRescue Diver Course Lesson Guides (standard and prescriptive)
Divemaster Course Lesson Guides
Discover Scuba Diving Flip Chart

Discover Scuba Diving Brochure
Scuba Tune-Up guidebook

Skill Evaluation Slate

Open Water Diver Course Lesson Guides (standard and prescriptive)
The Law and the Diving Professional
The Best of the Undersea Journal
The Business of Diving
Children and Scuba Diving: A Resource Guide for Instructors and Parents
A.W.A.R.E. – Our World, Our Water manual – downloadable digital version
Ten Ways a Diver Can Help to Protect the
Aquatic Realm brochure
Discover the Underwater World video and
The Snorkeler’s Field Guide
PADI Pro Log Book


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