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Requirements:PADI Divemaster or equivalent, EFR course and 100 dives
Live the dream, work of what you love!
If you like teaching, scuba diving is your passion and you want live of what you like, become a PADI Instructor! Teaching scuba diving allows you to share your love of the underwater world with others while doing what you love.
The Instructor Development Course (IDC) consists in two parts:
- Assistant Instructor course (AI)
- Open Water Scuba Instructor program (OWSI)
Most of the dive professionals complete the entire IDC and go straight to the Instructor Examination (IE), which is the final step to earn a PADI Instructor certification.
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The IDC will teach you how to conduct all the PADI courses. You’ll be able to organize and present information, conduct skill development sessions and control open water dives. You will become a teacher with the ability to demonstrate underwater skills in an excellent way while ensuring the safety and fun of your students. Definitely, a model to follow.
Structure of the IDC:
9 theory sessions through the PADI eLearning platform or during the IDC:
- Learning, Instruction and the PADI System
- PADI Standards and Procedures for courses
- Risk Management and Diver Safety
- Marketing Diving and Sales Counseling
- Start Diving
- Teaching PADI Diving Specialty Courses
- The Business of Diving and your role as an Instructor
- Continue Diving
- Teaching the Recreational Dive Planner (PIR)
10 training sessions during the IDC:
- Course Orientation and Presentation
- Knowledge Development Presentations
- Confined Water Skills Demonstration Training
- Conducting Open Water Dives
- General Standards and Procedures for courses
- PADI Open Water Diver Course
- PADI Adventures in Diving Program
- PADI Rescue Diver Course
- PADI Divemaster Course
- Risk Management and Diver Safety
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- PADI Divemaster certification or equivalent since 6 months or more
- 18 years old or more
- 60 logged dives at the beginning of the course and 100 to attend the IE
- Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care (CPR and First Aid) training within the past 24 months (can be completed during the IDC)
- Absence of diseases or medical restrictions (medical questionnaire)
You also need to be an Emergency First Response Instructor, but you can earn this certification during the IDC.
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Each candidate will need to have all the basic diving equipment for the all the training sessions and the IE: fins, mask and snorkel, wetsuit, knife, BCD, regulator, pressure gauge, depth gauge, compass, waterproof watch, 2 thin ropes and a Surface Marker Buoy.