Course overview

Cross the line from leading dives to teaching them with the PADI Instructor Development Course in Port Blair, the gateway to the Andamans. The calm, warm waters around Chidiyatapu and the wider Andaman Sea give instructor candidates a forgiving, high-visibility classroom in which to rehearse teaching presentations and master PADI standards before sitting the independent Instructor Examination. You finish the IDC ready to certify divers of your own and step into the worldwide PADI professional community.

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 instructor level
• Manage diver risk and run training 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 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

   Practise demonstrating and teaching the core skills in calm, shallow Andaman water.
3. Day3
   Open-water teaching

   Run open-water teaching presentations and skill circuits at sheltered Chidiyatapu sites under evaluation.
4. Day4
   Standards & dive business

   Work through dive standards, risk management, marketing and the business of running dive operations.
5. Day5
   Theory & 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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