Required and Recommended Student Diver Materials
for PADI Courses
Effective 1 January, 2006
Minimum Required Materials: The PADI Dive Center, Resort, and/or Instructor conducting a course must ensure that student divers have, in their possession, a personal set of materials (as defined in the list of required materials for the course), for study and use during the course and for reference afterward; unless the materials are not available in a language understood by the student diver.
Student divers must have a current version of the required materials.
| PADI Scuba Diver/Open Water Diver |
| Required Materials |
Recommended Materials |
PADI Open Water Diver Manual* or Multimedia
RDP – Wheel, table or eRDP (including associated Instructions for Use booklets)
*Note: For those purchasing the manual, the PADI Open Water Diver video must also be viewed. |
PADI Open Water Diver Video*
PADI Log Book |
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| PADI Adventures in Diving (Adventure Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver) |
| Required Materials |
Recommended Materials |
| PADI Adventures in Diving manual or Multimedia
Deluxe Data Carrier
RDP – Wheel, table or eRDP including associated Instructions for Use booklets (Wheel is required if conducting Multilevel Dive) |
PADI Adventures in Diving video
PADI Specialty Diver manuals and videos
PADI Log Book |
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| PADI Rescue Diver |
| Required Materials |
Recommended Materials |
| PADI Rescue Diver Manual*
Diving Accident Management Work Slate
*The PADI Rescue Diver video must also be viewed. |
Emergency First Response Participant Manual
RDP – Wheel, table or eRDP
The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
PADI Rescue Diver Video*
PADI Log Book |
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| PADI Divemaster |
| Required Materials |
Recommended Materials |
| PADI Divemaster Manual*
RDP – all three versions (Wheel, table and eRDP including associated Instructions for Use booklets)
The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
Diving Knowledge Workbook
Divemaster Slates
Instructor Guides for programs Divemasters may conduct:
1. Discover Scuba Diving
2. Discover Snorkeling/Skin Diver Course
3. Scuba Review/Discover Local Diving
*The PADI Divemaster video must also be viewed. |
PADI Instructor Manual
PADI Underwater Navigator Manual
PADI Underwater Navigation Video
PADI Deep Diver Manual
PADI Deep Diving Video
PADI Rescue Diver Manual
PADI Rescue Diver Video
PADI Divemaster Video*
PADI Discover the Underwater World video
Scuba Tune-up guidebook
The Business of Diving
Dive Roster Slate
The Law and the Diving Professional
The Best of the Undersea Journal
Peak Performance Buoyancy video
PADI Open Water Diver Multimedia
Skill Evaluation Slate
PADI Log Book
All training materials for courses leading up to PADI Divemaster level including manuals, videos, and multimedia products for the PADI Open Water Diver course, Adventures in Diving program and Rescue Diver course |
Comments:
The Recreational Dive Planner (Wheel, table or eRDP) is required for the PADI Scuba Diver/Open Water Diver and Adventures in Diving program. If the diver does not already have an RDP, the PADI Dive Center, Resort or Instructor conducting the course must ensure the diver has one for planning course dives and for use after the course. The PADI Divemaster course requires the candidate to personally have and know how to use all three versions of the RDP.
The PADI Divemaster course now requires both the Diving Knowledge Workbook and The Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving for candidates to use when studying for the theory exams. While it’s strongly recommended that divemaster candidates have a PADI Instructor Manual, the three instructor guides relevant for divemaster-conducted programs are required. |
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| Digital Underwater Photographer |
| Required Materials |
Recommended Materials |
Digital Underwater Photographer Manual
Digital Underwater Photographer White Balance Slate
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| Enriched Air Diver |
| Required Materials |
Recommended Materials |
PADI Enriched Air Diver Manual (metric or imperial)
DSAT Equivalent Air Depth Table (metric or imperial)
DSAT Oxygen Exposure Table
Recreational Dive Planner for air
Enriched Air Recreational Dive Planners for
EANx32 and EANx36.
*The PADI Enriched Air Diving Video must be viewed. |
PADI Enriched Air Diving Video * |
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