DIVE INSTRUCTOR
Start your journey to become a certified PADI Instructor
The PADI IDC is a 10-day course that filled with serious fun! The program will prepare you to attend an Instructor Examination (IE), the final step to earn a PADI Instructor certification.
Our IDC is designed for you not only to pass the IE with ease but also to give you the best training possible to become a skillful PADI dive instructor, confident to start teaching your first courses.
What makes us truely unique is our unmatched level of support, before, during and long after the IDC, including unique online tools to prepare for the exam and ensuring that you will find a job after the IDC.
MORE THAN A CAREER
PADI OWSIs can teach all of PADI’s core courses from Open Water to Divemaster. Even some specialty courses like ‘Peak performance buoyancy’ and PADI AWARE programs.
They are also qualified to conduct programs for children, like the Bubble Maker and Seal Team programs and teach first aid and CPR courses.
PADI OWSI instructors are in high demand and you’ll have job opportunities worldwide.
You will teach students from various cultural backgrounds, learn to take responsibility for their safety, and become an effective team-player.
All these skills and experiences will enable you to advance your career in- and outside the diving industry.
Being a PADI instructor you is about much more than teaching scuba diving. PADI instructors can ‘change fear into courage’ and ‘anticipation into excitement’. You can really transform people’s lives and have a positive impact on their future.
Becoming a PADI instructor offers you a career that is as rewarding as it is exciting. You’ll have a unique opportunity to make a positive difference in the world, one dive at a time.
PADI IDC
To become a PADI OWSI you’ll need to complete the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC)
The IDC is made up of two parts – the Assistant Instructor (AI) course and the Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program. Most dive professionals complete the entire IDC and go on to attend an Instructor Examination (IE), which is the final step to earn a PADI Instructor certification. Successfully completing just the AI course results in a PADI Assistant Instructor qualification.
Most important prerequisites to enroll in the IDC are:
- A PADI Divemaster who has been a certified diver for six months.
- At least 60 logged dives and 100 dives to attend an IE.
- Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care (CPR and First Aid) training within the past 24 months.
- A medical statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months.
- You also need to be an Emergency First Response Instructor, but you can earn this rating during your IDC.
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WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
Start at home
You can start your PADI IDC online from your home. With the IDC Digital eLearning you can optimally prepare yourself for the PADI Instructor course!
In addition to that, Asia Scuba Instructors offer unique online learning tools to study dive theory and make practice exams.
Classroom sessions
- You will see presentations about Marketing, Risk Management, PADI Standards and more.
- You will learn how to organize and conduct PADI Programs including Discover Scuba Diving, Open Water Course, Advanced Course, Rescue Diver Course and Divemaster Course.
- You will learn how to do a classroom presentation “PADI style”
Pool sessions
- You will practice all skills from the PADI Open Water Course, Advanced Course and Rescue Course. “Demonstration quality”.
- You’ll learn how to teach PADI courses in the ‘pool or confined water’ in practical workshops. How to do briefing and debriefing, correct your students mistakes, how to position your students and much more.
Open water sessions
- You will learn how to teach PADI courses in the ‘open water’. How to do a briefing , controlling your students in open water, taking care of the environment, using your Divemaster etc.
- You will do a workshop on how to conduct Discover Scuba Diving in open water.
- You will do a workshop on teaching skills from the Advanced Open Water course.
- You will take part in a Rescue Scenario to practice your rescue skills.
Instructor Exam
During two days and in a very relaxed atmosphere you can show the PADI Examiners what you’ve learned in the IDC! There are four segments in the exam.
- Dive theory and PADI Standards
- Classroom presentation
- Confined water teaching presentation and Skill demonstration circuit
- Open water teaching presentation and Rescue skill demonstration
