Course overview

Cross from leading dives to teaching them with the PADI Instructor Development Course, set against the UNESCO-listed reefs of Baa Atoll in the Maldives. Candidates rehearse classroom, confined-water and open-water teaching presentations in the warm, clear lagoons around Dharavandhoo before sitting the independent Instructor Examination. You finish ready to certify your own students and join the worldwide network of PADI professionals.

What you’ll learn

• Deliver knowledge-development, confined-water and open-water teaching presentations
• Apply the PADI system of education, standards and curriculum
• Demonstrate, evaluate and correct student diving skills to instructor level
• Manage diver risk and run training to dive-centre standards in atoll conditions
• Brief, supervise and debrief students confidently on current-fed reefs
• Prepare fully for the independent PADI Instructor Examination

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 18
• PADI Divemaster or a qualifying leadership rating from another recognised agency
• Certified diver for at least 6 months
• 60 logged dives to begin the IDC and 100 to sit the Instructor Examination
• Emergency First Response Instructor rating (can be completed alongside)
• Diver medical clearance signed by a physician

What's included · What's not

Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Teaching foundations

   Orientation to the PADI system of education and your first knowledge-development presentations.
2. Day2
   Confined-water workshops

   Practise demonstrating and teaching core skills in calm, shallow lagoon water.
3. Day3
   Open-water teaching

   Deliver open-water teaching circuits on the house reefs around Dharavandhoo under evaluation.
4. Day4
   Standards & risk management

   Work through dive standards, risk management and the business of diving.
5. Day5
   Theory & rescue assessment

   Sit dive-theory exams and complete the rescue assessment to IDC standard.
6. Day6
   IE preparation

   Mock exams, presentation polishing and a full briefing for the independent Instructor Examination.

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