Course overview

Cross the line from leading dives to teaching them with the PADI Instructor Development Course on Kadmat Island. The long, glass-calm lagoon that runs the length of this Lakshadweep coral atoll gives instructor candidates a controlled, forgiving classroom to rehearse teaching presentations, while the reef slopes facing the Arabian Sea provide open-water practice in 24-metre visibility. You finish the IDC ready to sit the Instructor Examination and certify divers of your own.

What you’ll learn

• Deliver knowledge-development, confined-water and open-water teaching presentations
• Apply the PADI system of education and current dive standards
• Demonstrate, evaluate and correct student diving skills to professional level
• Manage diver risk and conduct sessions to dive-centre standards
• Brief, supervise and debrief students with confidence
• 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, 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 classroom knowledge-development presentations.
2. Day3
   Confined-water workshops

   Rehearse demonstrating and teaching core skills in the calm shallows of the Kadmat lagoon.
3. Day6
   Open-water teaching

   Deliver open-water teaching presentations and skill circuits on the atoll's reef slopes under evaluation.
4. Day9
   Standards & dive business

   Work through dive standards, risk management, marketing and the business of running courses.
5. Day12
   Theory & rescue assessment

   Sit dive-theory exams and complete the rescue assessment to IDC standard.
6. Day14
   IE preparation

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

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