• PADI Instructor Manual
• Instructor Candidate Workbook
• The Law and the Diving Professional
• The Best of the Undersea Journal
• The Business of Diving
• Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty Instructor Outline
• Project AWARE Secialty Instructor Program Instructor Outline
• PADI Open Water Diver Manual
• Recreational Dive Planner, The Wheel and table, and Instructions for Use booklets
• Open Water Diver Quizzes and Exams booklet
• Adventures in Diving Manual
• PADI Rescue Diver Manual
• Rescue Diver Final Exams booklet
• PADI Divemaster Manual
• Divemaster Final Exams booklet
• Aquatic Cue Cards - Confined Water and Open Water
• Confined Water Lesson Preparation slate
• Open Water Training Dive Lesson Planning slate
• Log Book (Adventure Log - Pro Modules recommended)

• All PADI professional videos
• All PADI diver videos (OW Diver Video, etc.)
• Diving Knowledge Workbook
• Encyclopedia of Recreational Diving
• Adventures in Diving Cue Cards
• PADI Specialty manuals
• Nav-Finder
• Rescue Diver Course Lesson Guides
• Rescue Diver Course Instructor Cue Cards
• Divemaster slates
• Divemaster Course Lesson Guides
• Discover Scuba Flip Chart
• Discover Scuba Diving Instructor Slate
• Scuba Tune-up Multimedia or guidebook
• Skill Evaluation Slate
• Open Water Diver Course Lesson Guide
• PADI Career Advancement Series materials

*Items in bold are recommended for study while preparing for the IDC or AI Course.

• Fins
• Mask
  
• Snorkel
  
• Cylinder
  
• Regulator
  
• Alternate air source
  
• Buoyancy control device (BCD) with low pressure inflator
  
• Backpack (if not integrated into the BCD)
  
• Weight system
  
• Appropriate exposure suit for the environment
  
• Timing device and depth gauge (or dive computer)
  
• Compass
  
• Knife/dive tool (unless prohibited by local laws or regulations)
  
• Emergency signaling device (whistle, inflatable signal tube)