Our program offers a flexible, structured and rewarding educational experience, providing you ample opportunity to master the many parts of organizing and conducting specialty diving courses.
You will also learn the importance of good time management, self discipline, gain valuable hands-on teaching experience, pick up useful teaching tips and get to organize a wide choice of PADI dive courses.
Take the next step as a Dive Instructor, become a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer and make yourself highly employable on Koh Tao.
MSDT Prep course that includes 5 Instructor Specialty courses
Team-teaching Internship that includes a minimum of 25 PADI certifications
Lots of real-life teaching experience
Flexible schedule
Rental of all scuba equipment
FREE use of Dive Computer
Log book
Black Turtle Dive Customer (and environmental) promise
Our MSDT program consists of two sections; the MSDT Prep course and the MSDT team teaching Internship.
MSDT Prep
The MSDT Prep course is scheduled over 4- 6 days and you choose 5 Instructor Specialty ratings you would like to teach to your students.
Each PADI Specialty course has a knowledge development section and associated Open Water training sessions.
MSDT – Knowledge Development
A series of discussions, presentations and workshops that cover the following
Understand the purpose and goals for each specialty diver course
Review the course standards and procedures from each PADI Specialty Course Instructor Guide
Demonstrate mastery of all knowledge development performance requirements for each Specialty course
Present a knowledge development presentation from each specialty diver course
PADI Specialty diver training costing and marketing workshop
Each Instructor Specialty course includes 1-2 Open Water training dives and during each of those dives there are a number of tasks and skills you must complete.
MSDT – Open Water training
List student diver and instructor equipment requirements
Explain the specialty diver course Open Water training considerations
Describe how to conduct all course segments in a manner that enables divers to meet course performance requirements
Demonstrate mastery of all Open Water skill performance requirements for each specialty diver course
Conduct an Open Water teaching assignment for the specialty diver course.
