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How to Use the ‘Register a Professional’ Page

Article by Viviana Marcy

You’ve just completed your Divemaster candidate’s course, they’re excited and ready to become certified in the system. You’re preparing to send an email with all the documentation for the leadership team at Headquarters to process, but are you forgetting anything? Is there an easier way to submit these applications and ensure that nothing is overlooked?

Our ‘Register a Professional’ page is designed to make this process easier for our professional members. Instead of manually compiling and emailing paperwork, this step-by-step online tool ensures all required documents are submitted correctly, minimizing errors and reducing delays.

Why Use the ‘Register a Professional’ Page?

Instead of submitting applications via email, this online tool provides a step-by-step process, minimizing potential errors and missing documents. It also ensures that applications go directly to our headquarters’ training department, preventing potential issues like lost or filtered emails. While the training department does their best to process emailed applications, using this online tool helps to streamline the process while ensuring applications go directly to our headquarters’ training department for swift review. Submitting professional registrations through the portal typically reduces processing time by 1-2 business days. In this guide, we’ll walk you through the three main functions of the page and provide video tutorials to make the process even smoother.

The Three Main Functions of the ‘Register a Professional’ Page

This article is designed to help with three main processes:

Registering a Professional Candidate
Submitting a Specialty Instructor Upgrade
Processing a Crossover Application

By the end of this guide, you’ll have a clear understanding of how to register new professional candidates, submit your own specialty instructor upgrades, or cross a candidate over from another agency. Video tutorials are also available and will be linked within the article for ease of reference.

1. Registering a Professional Candidate

This area is for instructors, CDs and ITs to register candidates for professional-level certifications like Divemaster, Assistant Instructor, or Open Water Instructor. Something to note, the Assistant Instructor rating and Open Water Instructor rating may only be entered by a Course Director or Instructor Trainer.

Steps:

Log into your account at tdisdi.com. Make sure you’re logged in as a professional member, not under a facility account.
Click ‘Register a Professional’, then choose ‘Register a Professional Candidate’.
Select a facility or location If using a location, you will want to enter ‘City, State’
Search for the candidate using their name, date of birth, email, user ID, or member number.
Select the course you are registering the candidate for and enter the date of completion
Upload all required documents, these will be clearly listed on the page and are also located on the Dive Leader Record Folder for SDI ratings.
Complete payment, and the application will be sent for review and approval.

📺 Video Tutorial: Watch here

2. Submitting a Specialty Instructor Upgrade

This section allows you to upgrade to teach core SDI Specialties and certain other courses under TDI, ERDI, or PFI (additional requirements may apply).

Steps:

Log into your account at tdisdi.com. Make sure you’re logged in as a professional member, not under a facility account.
Click ‘Register a Professional’, then choose ‘Submit a Specialty Instructor Upgrade’
Select the SDI Specialty Instructor rating or other rating you are applying for.
Provide details about your experience in the specialty.
Add additional ratings if applying for multiple specialties.
Upload any required documents (e.g., proof of diver-level certification for certain specialties like Ice Diver, Sidemount, Computer Nitrox, and Dry Suit Diver).

For Solo Diver Instructor ratings, you must submit:

- Proof of Solo Diver eLearning completion (within the last 24 months) or proof of SDI Solo Diver certification within the last 24 months.
- Evidence of at least one year as an instructor and 50 certified students.
- If you need Solo Diver eLearning, contact Membership Services for a free code.
Complete payment, and the application is sent for review and approval.

📺 Video Tutorial: Watch here

3. Processing a Crossover Application

This section is for members crossing over a professional candidate from another agency.

Steps:

Log into your account at tdisdi.com. Make sure you’re logged in as a professional member, not under a facility account.
Click ‘Register a Professional’, then choose ‘Crossover Application’
Select the facility or location where the crossover took place.
Enter the candidate’s professional ratings from their current agency.
If crossing over an Open Water Instructor – the system will automatically add default SDI ratings including:
- Snorkeler Instructor
- Computer Diver Instructor
- Assistant Instructor
- Dive Experience Leader
Add equivalent ratings from their previous agency and any additional SDI Specialties that the candidate qualifies to administratively upgrade for.
Upload supporting documents, including:
- Crossover checklist – completed fully and including the payment reference
- Crossover Application
- Proof of active teaching status
- Student counts from the previous agency
- Current ratings list from their agency
- SDI Specialty upgrade form with a narrative of relevant dive experience in the specialty(ies) being upgraded to administratively
Submit Application
- You will then be directed to an area where you can submit the application. You may see the website show an incurred fee; however, you can disregard this and submit the application under ‘Terms’
- Your Crossover Checklist should have a payment reference so that our leadership team knows the correct amount to charge, if at all
- If you need any assistance tracking down your payment reference, feel free to reach out to Training and Membership Services so they can assist you with this.

📺 Video Tutorial: Watch here

Final Notes

While applications can still be sent via email to training@tdisdi.com, we highly recommend using the online leadership application for a smoother and more reliable process.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the membership services team so that we can assist!

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