The Underwater Connection is the only facility in central Ohio to offer PADI diving instructor courses. Not only is our dive shop is a PADI 5 Star Dive Center, but it is also rated as a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Center. If your desire is to become a diving professional, the Underwater Connection is able to help you realize your career goals.

Assistant Instructor

Your next step towards a diving career after becoming a divemaster is the highly rewarding PADI Assistant Instructor course. In an internship relationship with your PADI Instructor, you'll gain hands-on teaching experience with students (Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Advanced Plus, and Rescue Diver classes). The best internship for up-and-coming instructors. Contact us about arranging a class for you that best meets your schedule.

In the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC), you receive the intensive education that gives you the skills, knowledge, and tools necessary for teaching other divers. You practice these in classroom, pool, and open water settings. Instructor candidates attend more than 18 sessions on topics ranging from educational theory to practical techniques to teach PADI courses. Candidates perform no less than 9 teaching presentations in the classroom, the pool, and in open water. After completion, you'll be personally evaluated by professionals directly from PADI at an Instructor Examination.