SDI Open Water Instructor Development Course (IDC)

Becoming an instructor at Blue Sea Adventures is much more than just becoming an instructor.  Your are going to be the representative for scuba diving for the general public.  Being an instructor is much more than just teaching, instructors are there to promote scuba diving.  You will learn to sucessfully recruit and retain your own students in a positive way and hot to grow your own diving community and possibly their own store.  We believe the instructor is the key part in scuba diving, not just the resorts.  Each instructor candidate will attent several training sessions involving real students and acting students to present the instructor with real life scenarios. 

So you’re ready for the next step and to get the chance to introduce new divers to the sport of Scuba diving, see the looks on their faces the first time they breath underwater or see things they have only seen in movies and on TV. Maybe you want to become an SDI Instructor to start or change carriers or so you can travel the world. The SDI Instructor Course will teach current Divemaster or Assistants Instructors the knowledge to safely function as an independent SDI Instructor with the abilities to teach SDI Open Water Scuba Divers, Advanced Adventures Divers, Rescue Divers, Divemasters and Assistant Instructors. The program is divided into 2 sections, an Instructor Development Course (IDC) and an Instructor Evaluation Course (IEC).
The IDC teaches you how to;

• Schedule courses
• Pricing your classes
  
• successfully market scuba
• Properly teach and design academic and in water sessions
• Effectively utilize assistants.

The IEC (Examination) evaluates everything you learned during the IDC. This is typically a two day evaluation process and evaluates your abilities in:

• Preparing and teaching academic sessions
• knowledge of subject matter
• Pool/confined water lessons
• Open water lessons
• Emergency management abilities
• One of the few Dive Centers in the nation that can conduct IEC's on location.
  

Prerequisites:

• Be at least 18 Years Old
• Have been a certified diver for at least 6 months
• Have a current medical examination for diving
• 100 logged dives
• B a certified SDI Divemaster or Assistant Instructor
• Be qualified as a Oxygen Provider
• Have a current CPR and 1st Aid certification
• Internship of 5 open water classes, 1 rescue, 1 specialty as divemaster
• Crossover for Instructors from PADI, SSI, NAUI available to able to teach the SDI system
• Materials: SDI Open Water Instructor Kit or SDI Pro Instructor Kit