Course overview

Move from leading dives to teaching them with the PADI Instructor Development Course in Zanzibar, and finish ready to certify your own students once you pass the independent Instructor Examination. Candidates rehearse teaching presentations in the calm, protected coral gardens off Stone Town, then apply them on the reefs and walls around Mnemba Atoll and Tumbatu, where reliable July-to-February conditions make a forgiving classroom.

What you’ll learn

• Deliver knowledge-development, confined-water and open-water teaching presentations
• Apply the PADI system of education, standards and the dive-centre risk-management framework
• Demonstrate, evaluate and correct the 20+ core skills to instructor standard
• Brief, supervise and debrief student divers on Zanzibar's reef sites confidently
• Run dive operations to professional safety and environmental standards
• 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
• Current EFR (primary and secondary care) instructor rating, completable alongside
• Diver medical clearance signed by a physician within the last 12 months

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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 shallows off Stone Town.
3. Day3
   Open-water teaching

   Lead open-water teaching presentations and skill circuits on Mnemba and Tumbatu reefs under evaluation.
4. Day4
   Standards & risk management

   Work through dive standards, risk management, the business of diving and dive-centre 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 ahead of the independent Instructor Examination.

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