As you already know, PADI Worldwide offers the finest Instructor training programs available in today’s market. Dive-In’s 5* CDC Facility provides you with a professional learning experience in which you will understand how to teach diving using the full PADI system of diver education. Not only will you learn how to teach in the classroom, pool, and open water environments, you will also learn how to effectively use the PADI teaching aids and instructional support materials.
Once you have completed the PADI IDC with us, you will be trained and prepared to attend a PADI
Instructor Examination which is the final step toward your PADI Open Water Instructor Certification. You will be equipped with an excellent understanding of the diving industry, progressive instructional methods and state-of-the-art diving information. Earning your Open Water Instructor credentials you will be respected as one of the Diving Industry’s finest Professionals and able to take advantage of the many exciting opportunities available to you around the world today.
As a PADI 5* CDC Facility it is understood within the diving community that our Instructional applications are higher than standard IDC outlets. Because of this there exists a waiver from PADI that allows you to attend the Instructor Examination, (IE), without the need for the 100 logged dives required if you attended your course through a normal IDC location. Please contact us for clarification.
For any of you that enroll in our 6-week graduate programs, you will be pleased to know that on certification you be issued a Gold PADI Open Water Instructor Card signifying that you stand out from the crowd as you have had a significantly higher training format by conducting your Development Training through an establishment such as Dive-In’s 5* CDC Facility.
We can now offer you our latest ‘Guaranteed Pass’ Package which includes unlimited Speciality dives (excluding all materials) from only £699.
Join us today and become the Instructor that you always wanted to be!
IDC Requirements
The PADI Instructor Development Program prepares you to function as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor. In addition, it further develops your leadership and teaching abilities to the instructor level and prepares you to teach PADI programs.
To qualify for the PADI Instructor Development program, you must:
- Be certified as a PADI Assistant Instructor or a PADI Divemaster, or as an instructor with another recreational diver training organization.
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Be fit for diving and submit a medical form signed by a physician.
- Have been a certified diver for at least six months and logged at least 60 open water dives with experience in night, deep and navigation prior to beginning the Instructor Development Program, and have been a certified diver for at least 6 months and logged at least 100 dives prior to entering the Instructor Examination.
- Submit proof of CPR training within 24 months.
During the PADI Instructor Development program, you'll learn the PADI system of diver education, standards and procedures, effective academic teaching presentations, teaching in confined water, conducting open water training dives and additional related topics. You'll learn these topics one of two ways; through the PADI Instructor Development program (IDC) or the PADI Instructor Orientation program (IOC).
(Note: the IOC is an option available only if you're an instructor that is current with another certification org
anization and wish to become a PADI Instructor.)
After successful completion of the IDC or IOC, you must successfully complete the PADI Instructor Examination (IE). You will be evaluated on: dive theory, academic teaching, confined-water (pool) teaching, open-water teaching and general diving skills and professionalism.
As a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor you can conduct the entire range of PADI experience programs and PADI diver programs, from Open Water Diver through Divemaster (except for specialties and PADI Emergency First Response (EFR), which require specific Specialty Diver Instructor and EFR Instructor ratings).
After successfully completing your PADI IDC/IOC and IE, you receive a certification card and certificate denoting this rating. You'll also become a member of PADI and receive benefits, including the ability to purchase professional liability insurance (which may be required to conduct some activities).
