We offer a full range of recreational, professional, and technical diving courses all year long!
PADI Master SCUBA Diver Trainer
PADI Master SCUBA Diver Trainer (MSDT)
The Master SCUBA Diver Trainer prep course consists of 5 PADI Specialty Instructor courses. Specialties must be standardized PADI specialties but can be either diving or non-diving specialties. Specialties include Underwater Navigation, Deep Diver, Night Diver, Enriched Air Diver, Wreck Diver, and Boat Diver. Dives are conducted at Lake Travis Windy Point and/or at Spring Lake.
The goal of the course is to help a PADI Open Water SCUBA Instructor build an arsenal of specialty classes to offer their students both during and immediately following an open water course. Popular specialties that integrate well with open water courses include Peak Performance Buoyancy, Enriched Air Nitrox Diver, and Digital Underwater Photography.
To obtain the Master SCUBA Diver Trainer rating an Open Water SCUBA Instructor must complete the 5 Specialty Instructor ratings of their choice and issue 25 PADI certifications. The 25 certifications may be a combination of Open Water, Advanced, Rescue, Divemaster, and any of the standardized specialties that the instructor is certified to teach.
Master SCUBA Diver Trainer prep courses are often completed in conjunction with a PADI IDC or immediately following the IDC so that the Instructor Candidate has the opportunity to promote and teach specialties with their first Open Water Diver course.
Not sure about your schedule but you want to sign up for a class? Scroll to the bottom of the course listing and select the course marked "UNSCHEDULED." We will enroll you in an unscheduled class and you can contact us when you're ready to choose your dates. We'll then move you into the class you chose. You can ignore the dates that appear on the unscheduled class listing.
PADI Specialty Instructor Courses (SI)
PADI Specialty Instructor ratings allow instructors to teach additional specialty classes and are required to become a Master SCUBA Diver Trainer. Specialty instructor classes are scheduled on demand and will cover the course(s) that the instructor wishes to be able to teach.
Not sure about your schedule but you want to sign up for a class? Scroll to the bottom of the course listing and select the course marked "UNSCHEDULED." We will enroll you in an unscheduled class and you can contact us when you're ready to choose your dates. We'll then move you into the class you chose. You can ignore the dates that appear on the unscheduled class listing.
Robert Aschermann
Master Instructor, Course Director
Owner, Scubaland Adventures
Robie Lewis
Master Instructor, IDC Staff Instructor
Professional Training Coordinator
PADI Professional Training with Scubaland Adventures
Welcome to the start of something special. The choice to become a PADI professional is a committment to facing many challenges over many hours of hard work. It is also one of the most rewarding committments you will ever make! The journey ahead will involve self-study using PADI's new eLearning tools, in-class seminars and work sessions, confined water skills development, open water skills development, and finally an objective assessment of your abilities by a PADI Instructor Examiner. Holding a PADI Open Water SCUBA Instructor card means something!
Now that you have made the hard decision to make the commitment, now you get to make an easier decision about where to do your training. You will be looking for either a PADI 5-Star Instructor Development Center or a PADI 5-Star Career Development Center. What's the difference? Career Development Centers tend to be organizations where a significant portion of their income is derived through instructor development. They tend to be located in popular diving destinations like Florida, Thailand, Bonaire, Mexico, and others. They turn out a lot of PADI Instructors very quickly. If your goal is to obtain a PADI Open Water Diver Instructor card as quickly as possible, the Career Development Center may be the best option. Be aware, many CDCs offer "internships" or "work for training" programs. Many of these programs are simply a way for the dive operation to obtain free labor.
Scubaland and other PADI 5-Star Instructor Development Centers offer an alternative to the Career Development Center. Our goal is not to generate as many PADI professionals as we can. Our goal is to generate as many Scubaland instructors as we need. Our classes are small and we don't do "zero to hero" programs or "bootcamp" IDCs. We take the time to do it right and we take the time to show you how to do all of the other things a good Open Water SCUBA Instructor needs to know. This includes retail and dive store management, compressor fill station operations, local diving standards and techniques, and many more. We also offer our Instructors reduced rates on PADI Specialty Instructor courses, IDC Staff Instructor courses, and just about anything else we have to offer in order to encourage professional growth over time. We follow a team concept for SCUBA education so our Instructors learn to team teach from the very beginning.
All you need to do is look at the number of IDC Staff Instructors and Master Instructors, and the number of Instructors we have on staff that have been teaching for 10 or more years, to see that our program works. If you think you are ready for the challenge of becoming a PADI Instructor with Scubaland then we encourage you to start today!