Course overview

Move from leading dives to teaching them with the PADI Instructor Development Course on Thailand's Phi Phi Islands, finishing ready to sit the PADI Instructor Examination and certify your own divers. The sheltered, warm-water bays of the Phi Phi marine park have limestone walls and reefs that drop to around 30 metres, so candidates get calm, varied conditions to rehearse confined- and open-water teaching presentations. You finish as a teaching member of the world's largest dive organisation.

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, 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 and your first knowledge-development presentations in the classroom.
2. Day2
   Confined-water workshops

   Practise demonstrating and teaching core skills in the calm, sheltered shallows near the islands.
3. Day3
   Open-water teaching

   Deliver open-water teaching presentations and skill circuits on Phi Phi's reefs under evaluation.
4. Day4
   Standards & risk management

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