Course overview

Cross the line from leading dives to teaching them with the PADI Instructor Development Course on the west coast of Mauritius. Working out of Flic-en-Flac, with its sheltered lagoon for confined-water teaching and forgiving reef sites like Aquarium and the dramatic walls of Cathedral for open-water workshops, instructor candidates rehearse every teaching presentation in calm 23-28C water before sitting the independent 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, dive standards and risk management
• Demonstrate, evaluate and correct student diving skills to professional standard
• Brief, supervise and debrief students in real open-water conditions
• Run dive theory and physics segments for students preparing exams
• Prepare fully for the independent two-day 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 classroom knowledge-development presentations.
2. Day2
   Confined-water workshops

   Demonstrate and teach core skills in the calm Flic-en-Flac lagoon under evaluation.
3. Day3
   Open-water teaching

   Deliver open-water teaching circuits at sheltered reef sites like Aquarium.
4. Day4
   Standards and risk management

   Work through dive standards, business of diving and risk-management modules.
5. Day5
   Theory and 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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