PADI IDC COURSE 

PADI Instructor Development Course

@ Asia #1 Island - Boracay Island Philippines

Do you have a passion for the underwater world and diving? Do you want to live the dream and help people transform their lives? Then do your PADI IDC at Boracay Island Paradise Philippines! As a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor you can!

The PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) at Calypso’s 5 Star IDC Center, Boracay, Philippines prepares you to be a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor. It further develops your leadership and teaching abilities to the instructor level and prepares you to teach PADI programs. The IDC is intense, enjoyable, demanding and exciting all at the same time. When you complete the IDC, you will have been trained and prepared to successfully attend the PADI Instructor Examination (IE). Candidates have fun, make new friends, and share rewarding life experiences while earning some of the most desirable credentials in the dive industry.

What Are The Prerequisites To Join?

1. 18 years old.
2. Certified diver for at least 6 months.
3. Dive Leader certification — PADI Divemaster or Leadership Level Certification with a recognised Recreational Diver Training Organisation (if not a PADI Divemaster, complete the PADI Divemaster Course Rescue Diver Skills Assessment).
4. EFR Primary and Secondary Care Course Completion (or qualifying training) within the last 24 months.
5. Submit documentation of qualifying Certifications for Entry Level, Advanced, Rescue and Leadership Level, as necessary.
6. Medical Clearance Attesting To Dive Fitness signed by a Physician within the previous 12 months.

Additionally, to be put forward for the Instructor Examination you will first need to:

1. Have successfully completed Instructor Development (IDC)
2. Have completed the PADI Emergency First Response Instructor Training Course
3. Have at least 100 logged dives.
4. You should bring with you all of your Certification Cards, your Log Books.

What are the performance requirements?

1. Complete the following independent eLearning of the revised PADI Instructor Development Course:

• How To Use PADI eLearning
• Getting Started
• Dive Theory For Dive Leaders
• PADI System Overview
• Learning Instructions & The PADI System
• Discover Scuba Diving & Experience Program
• PADI Open Water Diver Course
• Risk Management & Legal Consideration
• Managing Risk
• PADI Quality Management & Licensing
• Introduction To Teaching Presentations
• Conducting & Evaluating Knowledge Development
• Confined Water Training
• Open Water Training
• Continue Education & Leadership Courses
• Business of Diving
• How To Teach The Recreational Dive Planner (RDP)

2. Participate in the following curriculum components with a PADI Course Director & Staffs:

• Orientation
• Dive Theory Workshop
• PADI System Workshop
• Learning & Teaching Workshop
• Discover Scuba Diving Workshop
• Open Water Diver Course Set Up & Scheduling Workshop
• Risk Management & Licensing Workshop
• Knowledge Development Presentation Workshop
• Confined Water Training Workshop
• Open Water Training Workshop
• Continue Education Workshop
• Sales Techniques Workshop
• Course Close

3. Present three Knowledge Development Teaching Presentations, scoring a minimum of 3.5 on at least two.

4. Present four Confined Water Teaching Presentations, scoring a minimum of 3.4 on at least two.

5. Present two Integrated (Two Skills) Open Water Teaching Presentations, scoring a minimum of 3.4 on at least one integrated presentation.

• At least one set of skills from the PADI Open Water Diver Course.
• At least one set of skills from a Continuing Education Course requiring a demonstration.
• At least one set of skills without a certified assistant.

6. Perform all 24 dive and skin dive skills in the Skill Evaluation, scoring a minimum of 82 total points, with no individual score below 3 and with at least one underwater skill to a 5.

7. Score 75 percent on the PADI Systems, Standards and Procedures Exam and have any missed questions reviewed until mastery is achieved. Retest candidates scoring less than 75 percent.

8. Score 75 percent on all sections of the Dive Theory Exam and have any missed questions reviewed until mastery is achieved. Retest candidates scoring less than 75 percent.

9. Perform a 400 metre/yard continuous swim, without swimming aids and using any stroke or combination of strokes.

10. Perform a 10-minute tread, drown-proof, bob or float using no aids and wearing only a swimsuit.

11. In confined or open water, demonstrate with role-model quality the rescue of a simulated panicked diver at the surface.

12. In open water, demonstrate with role-model quality the rescue of a simulated unresponsive, non-breathing diver at the surface.

13. In open water, participate in a scenario including:

• Surfacing a simulated unresponsive non-breating diver
• Providing aid at the surface
• Exiting
• First aid on boat/shore including rescue breathing for and administering oxygen to the victim using a rescue breathing mask.

How long does it take?

The standard IDC course takes about 8days but to better equipped candidates with better learning environment and prepare them for the PADI Instructor Examination, there will be 2days of IDC Preparation Program before the start of the IDC Course and 10days of Instructor Development. After successfully met the Performance Requirements of the IDC Program, candidates will be eligible to attend a 2days PADI Instructor Examination conducted by PADI Instructor Examiner before certification as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.

What you can do as a PADI Instructor?

Teaching Status Open Water Scuba Instructors are authorized to teach the following PADI Courses:

• PADI Scuba Diver/Open Water Diver
• Adventure Diver/Advanced Open Water Diver
• Rescue Diver
• Divemaster
• Skin Diver and Discover Snorkeling
• Discover Scuba Diving
• PADI Seal Team and Bubblemaker
• ReActivate and Discover Local Diving
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Project AWARE Specialty
• Coral Reef Conservation