PADI ELearning: IDC (Instructor Development Course) PADI ELearning & Manuals

It is an indescribable feeling to see people take their very first breath underwater. As a PADI Scuba Diving Instructor, you get to introduce people to a whole new world. You get to share your passion for the big blue, transforming people’s lives for the better. Go PRO^SM and become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) or a PADI Assistant Instructor (AI) with an Instructor Development Course (IDC).

As an OWSI, you will be able to teach beginner courses, such as the Discover Scuba Diving Experience, the Suba Diver Course and the Open Water Diver Course. In all these courses, you set the bar for a new generation of divers and get to shape how they perceive this great unknown. In the continuing education courses, the Advanced Open Water and Rescue Diver, you help people become better divers and teach them how to care of themselves, their buddies and the aquatic realm. You will also be licenced to teach the Divemaster course and help exceptional individuals with a passion for diving to take the next step.

During the IDC, you become a better public speaker and get exceptional experience at demonstrating skills, all the while watching out for your student diver’s safety. The course includes PADI standards and procedures, the PADI system, risk management and diver safety, the business of diving, as well as marketing diving and sales counselling.

Get started with the theory and the 9 knowledge development sections today with PADI’s eLearning package (50016-3). Study independently at your own pace before starting your classes. Get in contact with a PADI Five Star Instructor Development Centre or Resort, to inform yourself about any upcoming IDCs and to get your Crew Pak.

Course requirements:

• Certified diver for at least 6 months
• PADI Divemaster (or equivalent)
• Emergency First Response (Primary and Secondary Care)
• Emergency First Response Instructor
• Minimum of 60 logged dives to begin the course and 100 dives to attend an IE
• Minimum age: 18 years
• A medical statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months
• Good swimming skills

This course fee only covers your online training and assessments. Additional fees apply for practical training, including dives, dive equipment, crew pak and certification.