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SDI Assistant instructor

The SDI Assistant instructor course is designed for you to gain practical teaching experience with an active SDI Instructor or Instructor Trainer. You will help an Instructor teach an Open Water Scuba Diver course, Advanced Diver Course, and Rescue Diver Course.

Your SDI Instructor will also teach you to:
• Prepare lesson plans
• Give academic presentations
• General dive management techniques.

Upon completion of the course you may teach and certify Skin Divers, conduct the Inactive Diver Program, and conduct the knowledge Quest review in the Open Water Diver Course.

With some additional training, you could go on to teach the following SDI courses:
• Altitude Diver
• Boat Diver
• Computer Diver
• Equipment Specialist
• Marine Ecosystems Awareness Diver
• Shore/Beach Diver
• Underwater Photographer Diver
• Underwater Video Diver
• Visual Inspection Procedures
• CPROX Administrator
• CPR1st Administrator

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NAUI Instructor course

NAUI Instructor is a person dedicated to the motto of "Dive Safety Through Education"; a person whom others look to for leadership and knowledge. NAUI has always been and remains today the most prestigious agency focusing on diving instruction. You can share the adventure - and help create it! If you believe your work should be enjoyable and exciting, if you are eager to share your knowledge with others, if you believe that to train the best you must be among the best trained, join the finest. Join the adventure!

• Certified NAUI Instructor course graduates (ITC or ICC) are qualified to apply for Instructor membership in NAUI in any status provided for in the bylaws of the association.


o An active-status NAUI Instructor may independently teach NAUI sanctioned courses and authorize NAUI certifications for graduates.
o An active-status NAUI Instructor may independently conduct NAUI recognition and experience programs and authorize formal recognition for graduates.
o An active- or sustaining-status NAUI Instructor is a voting member of NAUI.


• A NAUI member Instructor may renew such membership annually (in any one status) by meeting the requirements set by the NAUI Training Department and Membership Committee.

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