PADI Professional Scuba Pathway
Ready to become a dive pro? Ocean Enterprises is a 5-Star PADI Dive Center in San Diego with professional training designed to help you become a PADI Divemaster, earn professional instructor credentials, and progress into elite instructor ranks. If you’re searching for PADI pro courses in San Diego, Divemaster training, or IDC / instructor development, this pathway shows your next best step.
Your Professional Pathway
Click a level to see what you’ll learn — then choose your next step based on how you want to work in diving.
Core Pro Certifications
What You’ll Learn
Divemaster
Build professional-level leadership skills and learn how to supervise diving activities, assist instructors, and guide certified divers in real conditions.
- Leadership + supervision skills for guiding certified divers
- Stronger dive theory, watermanship, and problem-solving
- Real-world experience assisting with training and classes
Assistant Instructor
Start building the teaching foundations behind great instruction — stronger demonstrations, better briefings, and more confidence coaching students.
- Teaching fundamentals: briefings, demos, and student coaching
- A practical bridge between Divemaster and Instructor
- More confidence assisting with training and student development
Open Water Scuba Instructor
Become the instructor who can teach and certify new divers. This is the “go pro” milestone most divers mean when they say they want to teach scuba.
- Teach confined + open water with confidence
- Better presentations, standards mastery, and in-water demos
- Prep for the PADI Instructor Exam pathway
Specialty Instructor
Expand what you can teach. Specialty Instructor training helps you grow your course offerings and become a more versatile pro.
- Teach more continuing education based on what divers actually want
- Build your value as an instructor with additional course options
- A key step many pros take before moving into IDC Staff roles
IDC Staff Instructor
Move from teaching divers to helping shape instructors. Staff Instructors support Course Directors during IDC programs and elevate training standards.
- Assist with training and evaluating IDC candidates
- Sharpen coaching, standards knowledge, and leadership
- A major step toward higher professional development
Master Instructor
Earn recognition as an elite scuba educator through proven teaching efforts and consistent professional conduct — a rating for instructors who lead by example.
- Recognition as a top-tier instructor with a strong teaching track record
- Demonstrates commitment to training quality and professional leadership
- A respected milestone for experienced instructors
