Course overview

Cross from leading dives to teaching them with the PADI Instructor Development Course on the Kerala coast at Kovalam. The calm, warm waters of the Arabian Sea and the school's controlled training quarry near Ernakulam give instructor candidates a forgiving environment to rehearse teaching presentations before sitting the independent Instructor Examination. You finish ready to certify your own students and join the global 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 dive theory
• Demonstrate, evaluate and correct student diving skills to instructor level
• Manage diver risk and run training sessions safely
• 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 and 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

   Demonstrate and teach core skills in the calm training shallows near Ernakulam.
3. Day3
   Open-water teaching

   Deliver open-water teaching presentations and skill circuits on the Kovalam reef under evaluation.
4. Day4
   Standards and risk management

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

   Sit the 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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