Course overview

Make the move from leading dives to teaching them with the PADI Instructor Development Course in Djibouti, on the Gulf of Tadjoura where the Red Sea opens toward the Indian Ocean. The region's calm, reef-fringed bays and quiet sites give instructor candidates a controlled, unhurried place to rehearse teaching presentations and learn the PADI standards before sitting the Instructor Examination. You finish ready to certify your own divers and join the 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 professional level
• Manage diver risk and run training sessions to dive-centre standards
• Brief, supervise and debrief students with confidence
• Prepare thoroughly 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

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Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Teaching foundations

   Orientation to the PADI system of education, followed by your first knowledge-development classroom presentations.
2. Day2
   Confined-water workshops

   Practise demonstrating and teaching core skills in the calm, shallow reef shallows of the gulf.
3. Day3
   Open-water teaching

   Deliver open-water teaching presentations and skill circuits under evaluation at nearby reef sites.
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 dive-theory exams and complete the rescue assessment to IDC standard.
6. Day6
   IE preparation

   Mock exams, presentation polishing and a full briefing ahead of the independent Instructor Examination.

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