Course overview

Cross the line from leading dives to teaching them with the PADI Instructor Development Course on Maafushi, a budget-friendly local island in the Maldives' South Malé Atoll. With warm 27-30°C water year-round and a calm house reef beside the island, instructor candidates get a forgiving, easily-accessed classroom to rehearse teaching presentations and master PADI standards before the Instructor Examination. You finish ready to certify divers of your own 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 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 student divers 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 your first knowledge-development classroom presentations.
2. Day2
   Confined-water workshops

   Practise demonstrating and teaching core skills in the calm shallows of the island house reef.
3. Day3
   Open-water teaching

   Deliver open-water teaching circuits and skill workshops on atoll sites under instructor evaluation.
4. Day4
   Standards & dive business

   Work through dive standards, risk management, marketing and the business of running 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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