PADI Advanced Underwater Dance Instructor Course
Take your underwater dance teaching to the next level with the PADI Advanced Underwater Dance Instructor Course in Malaysia. This three-day professional course is for qualified instructors who want to teach the PADI Advanced Underwater Dance Specialty.
You’ll build on your Underwater Dance Instructor training and advanced student-level skills, preparing to guide students through advanced techniques, choreography and performance requirements.
What to Expect
The PADI Advanced Underwater Dance Instructor Course focuses on preparing you to teach the advanced specialty. You’ll practise instructor-level demonstrations and confined-water teaching presentations, and develop your ability to explain and assess advanced breath-hold and dance techniques.
Training also focuses on teaching choreography concepts, helping students develop a finished dance sequence, problem-solving, class control and ensuring students meet the course performance requirements. You’ll practise guiding students through the advanced program while maintaining appropriate supervision and control.
PADI Advanced Underwater Dance Instructor Course Schedule
The course takes place over three days, with pool training and classroom sessions each day.
| Each course day | Training |
|---|---|
| 9:00 am–approximately 12:30–2:00 pm | Pool training and instructor practice |
| 2:00–4:00 pm | Classroom training |
Pool sessions may finish earlier or later depending on student progress. Your instructor will confirm the detailed schedule before the course.
Where Can You Take the Course?
The PADI Advanced Underwater Dance Instructor Course can be taught in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Johor and Pahang. Contact Malaysia Mermaid Club to check available dates and arrangements in your preferred location.
Instructor Prerequisites
To qualify for the PADI Advanced Underwater Dance Specialty Instructor rating, you must:
- Hold active teaching status as a PADI Mermaid Instructor or PADI Freediver Instructor.
- Be a PADI Underwater Dance Instructor.
- Have completed the PADI Advanced Underwater Dance course at student level.
The course outline allows an optional open-water dive for students who also hold a PADI Advanced Mermaid or PADI Freediver certification, or a qualifying equivalent. Ask us whether this option is available for your course.
What’s Included
The course price includes:
- PADI Advanced Underwater Dance Instructor program, as scheduled
- PADI Advanced Underwater Dance Instructor eCard
- PADI Advanced Underwater Dance Instructor wall certificate
- Instructor course fees
- PADI Advanced Underwater Dance Instructor Guide
- Swimming pool entrance fees
- Equipment rental: mask, nose clip and weight
- Lunch
- Malaysia Mermaid Club membership
The PADI instructor application fee is not included in the course price and is paid directly to PADI.
PADI Advanced Underwater Dance Instructor Course Price
RM3,800 per person
Contact Malaysia Mermaid Club to check eligibility, upcoming dates and course arrangements.

Become a PADI Advanced Underwater Dance Instructor in Malaysia
Ready to progress your professional training? Contact Malaysia Mermaid Club to ask about the PADI Advanced Underwater Dance Instructor Course in Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Johor or Pahang.
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