In the PADI Instructor
Development course we prepare you to function as a PADI Open Water Scuba
Instructor.
It further develops your leadership and teaching abilities to the instructor
level and prepares you to teach PADI programmes.
Before We Start
1. You need to be a PADI Assistant Instructor or a PADI Divemaster,
or an instructor with another recreational diver training organisation.
2. Be at least 18 years old.
3. Be fit for diving and submit a medical form signed by a physician.
4. You need to 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 before we can start the Instructor Development course. You
also need to have been a certified diver for at least 6 months having
logged at least 100 dives before you can do the Instructor Examination.
5. Have proof of CPR training within 24 months
Course
Overview
During the PADI Instructor Development course we teach you the PADI
System of diver education, standards and procedures, 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). The IOC is only available
if you are an instructor with another organisation and wish to become
a PADI instructor.
After the 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 programmes and PADI diver programmes, from Open Water
Diver through to Divemaster (except for specialties and PADI Medic First
Aid, which require specific Speciality Diver Instructors and
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