Course overview

Cross from leading dives to teaching them with the PADI Instructor Development Course based out of Ambon on the Banda Sea, one of Indonesia's most respected critter-diving regions. Candidates rehearse teaching presentations in the calm, life-rich shallows of Ambon Bay beside the famed Twilight Zone before sitting the independent PADI Instructor Examination. You finish ready to certify your own students and join the worldwide community 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 professional standard
• Manage diver risk and run training to dive-centre safety procedures
• Brief, supervise and debrief students with confidence
• Prepare fully for the independent PADI Instructor Examination

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 18
• PADI Divemaster or qualifying leadership rating from another recognised agency
• Certified diver for at least 6 months
• 60 logged dives to begin the IDC; 100 logged dives 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 first classroom knowledge-development presentations.
2. Day2
   Confined-water workshops

   Practise demonstrating and teaching core skills in the calm shallows of Ambon Bay.
3. Day3
   Open-water teaching

   Deliver open-water teaching circuits at local reef sites under instructor evaluation.
4. Day4
   Standards & risk management

   Work through PADI standards, risk management, marketing 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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