Instructor Development Course (IDC)

If you have a passion for scuba diving and want to travel the world seeking adventure and exciting experiences, then you have found the right place. Teaching people to scuba dive allows you to share your love of the aquatic world while doing what you enjoy – being in, around and under water.

PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors are the most in demand dive professionals in the world. This is because they’ve completed the world’s most progressive and popular scuba diving instructor course, The PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC).PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) is made up of two parts – 1- PADI Assistant Instructor course (AI) and 2- PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor Course (OWSI).
Most dive professionals complete the entire IDC and go on to attend PADI Instructor Examination (IE), which is the final step to becoming a PADI Instructor.

Dive professionals with a professional rating from another organization may be eligible to enroll in the PADI IDC .

Who Can Enroll on the PADI IDC?

A PADI Divemaster who has been a certified diver for six months, may enroll in the PADI Instructor Development Course.

You also need:

• At least 60 logged dives to start the IDC 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 will also need to become an Emergency First Response Instructor.

What does the Instructor Development Course teach you?

Our 10-day program will teach you how to conduct all PADI core courses. You’ll be able to organize and present information as well as conduct skill development sessions and open water training dives.

You will become a better public speaker, develop first-class underwater demonstration skills and learn how to supervise and control student divers whilst ensuring diver safety.

You will learn how to anticipate and solve common problems that occur when training divers, as well as correct positioning, so you are always close to respond.

Our PADI Instructor Development Course will give you plenty of practice in a role-playing environment.

The revised PADI Instructor Development Course has two parts; the online portion and the Course Director-led portion.

The online section includes the following subjects within the IDC e-learning part of your digital IDC Crew Pack.

You will need to complete this section prior to starting the IDC.

The e-learning curriculum includes the following subjects that are all completed online.

1. Getting started
2. Dive Theory for dive leaders
3. PADI System overview
4. Learning, Instruction & the PADI system
5. Discover Scuba Diving & Experience programs
6. The PADI Open Water Course
7. Risk Management & Legal Consideration
8. Managing Risk
9. PADI Quality Management & Licensing
10. Introduction to Teaching Presentations
11. Conducting & Evaluating knowledge development
12. Confined Water training
13. Open Water training
14. Continuing Education & Leadership Courses
15. The Business of Diving

The rest of the IDC curriculum is Course Director-led and consists of the following subjects:

• Orientation
  
• Dive Theory Workshop
• PADI System Workshop
• Learning and Teaching Workshop
• Discover Scuba Diving Workshop
• Open Water Dive Course Scheduling and Set Up Workshop
• Risk Management and Licensing Workshop
• Knowledge Development Presentation Workshop and Candidate Knowledge Development Presentations
• Skill Development Workshop
• Confined Water Training Workshop and Candidate Confined Water Teaching Presentations
• Open Water Training Workshop and Candidate Open Water Teaching Presentations
• Continuing Education Workshop
• Advanced Open Water Diver Course Workshop
• Rescue Diver Course Workshop
• Sales Techniques Workshop
• Course Close
   

Additional IDC Training Workshops

These are workshops we conduct above and beyond what is required by PADI

• CESA – How to conduct the Controlled Emergency Swimming Ascent in confined and open water
• Ascents & Descents (Open Water)
• Ascents & Descent Lines – how to set up at an open water dive site
• Adventures in Diving – Search & Recovery Knots & Lift bags – PPB – Navigation & compass handling
• Rescue Diver – exercises 1–8 (in confined water)
• Social Media and online marketing
• Developing your dive resume
• Dive Center Management and Operation 

What can I teach as PADI Instructor?

• PADI Scuba Diver/Open Water Diver
• Adventure Diver/Advanced Open Water Diver
• Rescue Diver
• Divemaster
• Advanced Snorkeler (Skin Diver) and Discover Snorkeling
• Discover Scuba Diving
• PADI Seal Team and Bubblemaker
• PADI ReActivate and Discover Local Diving
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• PADI AWARE Specialty
• Coral Reef Conservation
   

Are you ready to begin your journey to PADI Instructor?

Contact us  for private counseling and to help plan your next steps as a dive professional. 

Your dream of becoming a PADI Instructor starts today. Let us show you how!