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Miss Scuba PADI Instructor Course (not only for female instructor candidates)
The PADI Instructor Development Program prepares you to function as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor. In addition, it further develops your leadership and teaching abilities to the instructor level and prepares you to teach PADI programs.
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Complete your PADI Instructor Course in Sunny Los Angeles, California Instructor Courses starting in 2013 : Jan 10, April 1, June 1, Aug 1, Oct 6, Dec 1 Southern California has a climate that not too many places have in the World, making diving a year-around activity for the enthusiasts. Although diving conditions are more challenging in California than in tropical waters, the reward of swimming trough giant kelp forests will compensate any diver for the cool water temperature. $1600* |
*Inclusions: IDC Course, Air Fills, Tank & Weight Belt Use, Pool Fees, Airport Transfers,
Professional Tuition, Counseling and Career Advice.
The PADI Instructor Development Program prepares you to function as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor. In addition, it further develops your leadership and teaching abilities to the instructor level and prepares you to teach PADI programs.
To qualify for the PADI Instructor Development program, you must:
- Be certified as a PADI Assistant Instructor or a PADI Divemaster, or as an instructor with another recreational diver training organization.
- Be at least 18 years old.
- Be fit for diving and submit a medical form signed by a physician.
- Have been a certified diver for at least six months and logged at least 60 open water dives with experience in night, deep and navigation prior to beginning the Instructor Development Program, and have been a certified diver for at least 6 months and logged at least 100 dives prior to entering the Instructor Examination.
- Submit proof of CPR training within 24 months.
During the PADI Instructor Development program, you’ll learn the PADI System of diver education, standards and procedures, effective academic teaching presentations, teaching in confined water, conducting open water training dives and additional related topics.
After successful completion of the IDC, candidates must successfully complete the PADI Instructor Examination (IE). Candidates will be evaluated on dive theory, academic teaching, confined-water (pool) teaching, open-water teaching and general diving skills and professionalism.
As a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor you can conduct the entire range of PADI experience programs and PADI diver programs, from Open Water Diver through Divemaster (except for specialties and PADI Emergency First Responder, which require specific Specialty Diver Instructor and Emergency First Responder® Instructor ratings).
After successfully completing your PADI IDC and IE, you receive a certification card and certificate denoting this rating. You’ll also become a member of PADI and receive benefits, including the ability to purchase professional liability insurance (which may be required to conduct some activities).
Inclusions: Air Fills, Tank & Weight Belt use, Pool Fees, Airport Transfers,
Professional Tuition, Counseling and Career Advice.
Exclusions: Courses do not include equipment rental, PADI course materials or PADI fees.
Topics Covered during the IDC:
Orientation
Diving Industry Overview
Learning, Instruction and the PADI System
Developing Knowledge Development Presentations - Parts 1,2,3.
The Role of Media and Prescriptive Teaching
Standards Exam/Dive Theory Exam
Legal Responsibility and Risk Management
Teaching in Confined Water - Parts 1,2,3,4,5,6
Business Principles for the Dive Professional
How to Organize and Conduct PADI Experience Programs
PADI Scuba Diver and Open Water Diver Course
Teaching Children
PADI Discover Scuba and Snorkeling Programs
General Standards and Procedures
Teaching Project Aware and Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialties
The PADI Continuing Education Philosophy
Adventures in Diving Program
Adventure Dive /Specialty Dive Workshop (Open Water)
Prescriptive Teaching Presentations - Part 1,2
Diver Retention Programs
Rescue Exercise Workshop (Open Water)
Divemaster Course
Specialty Diver Courses and Master Scuba Diver Program
Conducting Open Water Dives - Parts 1,2,3
Required Equipment for the IDC:
Buoyancy Control Device
First, second and alternate regulators
Submersible Pressure Gauge
Timing device other than a dive computer
Appropriate exposure suit for environment where IDC and IE will be held.
Whistle attached to your BCD flex inflator hose
Compass
Knife
Mask, snorkel, boots, gloves and fins
Boots and gloves
Surface Marker Buoy
Slates
Tool Box
First Aid Kit
Logbook Binder
Steel or aluminum tank
What materials are needed?
PADI Instructor Manual $217
Instructor Candidate Workbook (included in the course fee)
Open Water Aquatic Cue Cards $35
Confined Water Aquatic Cue Cards $40
Rescue Diver Cue Cards $60
The Law and the Diving Professional (can be rented from Aqua Adventures for the training) $35
The Business of Diving (can be rented from Aqua Adventures for the training) $32
The Best of The Undersea Journal (can be rented from Aqua Adventures for the training) $37
Log Book with a proof of 100 dives
Diving Knowledge Workbook $19
Encyclopedia of Diving $42
Open Water Diver Manual $45
Recreational Dive Planner, the Wheel $47, the Table $18, and the E-RDP $30! ALL THREE!!!
Open Water Diver Quizzes and Exam booklet $10
Adventures in Diving Manual $37
Rescue Diver Manual $35
Rescue Diver Final Exams Booklet $10
Divemaster Manual $33
Divemaster Final Exams Booklet $10
Additional Training Opportunities:
PADI Emergency First Response Instructor
To become a PADI Emergency First Response® (EFR) Instructor, you you’ll need to be a PADI Instructor or Assistant Instructor who has satisfactorily completed an EFR Instructor Training program. As an EFR Instructor, you may conduct EFR programs for divers and non-divers who want CPR and first aid training including basic emergency medical care knowledge and skills.
To enroll in a PADI EFR Instructor Training program, you'll need to:
- Be either a PADI Assistant Instructor (certified/upgraded using the 1995 revised curriculum), or a PADI Instructor, or have completed an IDC/IOC within the past 12 months.
- Have successfully completed a EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONSE® program as a student.
The EFR Instructor Training program teaches instructor candidates to conduct the seven modules of the EFR program including: Primary Assessment, CPR, Obstructed Airway, Control of Bleeding, Shock Management, Illness Assessment and Injury Assessment.
Once you complete the PADI EFR Instructor Training program, please submit to the appropriate PADI office a completed application signed by the PADI Program Director who conducted the training along with a photo and your processing fee. Only renewed PADI Instructors and Assistant Instructors may apply for EFR Instructor certification. If you’re an instructor candidate, but not a PADI Assistant Instructor, you may apply for EFR Instructor certification only after becoming certified as PADI Instructor.
Inclusions: Professional tuition, counseling and career advice.
Exclusions: PADI course materials or PADI fees
Price: $199
PADI Specialty Instructor
PADI Specialty Instructors have the best of both worlds. Not only have the earned the qualifications to conduct main stream dive programs such as the PADI Open Water Diver, Advanced, Rescue Diver and Divemaster programs, they can also conduct PADI Specialty Diver programs. These programs help divers to hone their skills in specific area or facets of diving such as wreck, night and deep diving.
PADI has a variety of standardized specialty diver programs that you may conduct once you have earned PADI Specialty Instructors rating in that specific area. These each program is supported by outlines and a variety of other student learning materials. In addition to the standardized specialty programs, as a PADI Assistant Instructor or higher you may write your own distinctive specialty programs, which may be conducted once approved by PADI.
During the Specialty Instructor Training Program you’ll receive valuable hands-on training, technique demonstrations, program marketing information, current PADI Standards information and, when applicable, instructor-level open water training. To enroll in a Specialty Instructor Training Program, you must be a renewed PADI Assistant Instructor (certified/upgraded using the 1995 revised curriculum), a renewed PADI Underwater Instructor (or PADI Instructor with a higher rating) or have completed an IDC within the past 12 months.
Inclusions: Air Fills, Tank & Weight Belt use, Pool Fees,
Professional tuition, counseling and career advice.
Exclusions: Courses do not include equipment rental, PADI course materials or PADI fees
Price: $99 OR
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