The Ultimate Professional Scuba Diving Instructor Training Program!!!
The PADI IDC is the worlds most sort after Instructor Training Course. Taking you from Divemaster to OWSI (Open Water Scuba Instructor). Through the IDC you will learn how to intorduce people to Scuba Diving and take them all the way....... So they can get out of diving as much as you have!! Our next IDC is starting on 11th April in Teignmouth with IE in Torquay. So sign up for your training and evalution in your local enviroment.
ThePADI IDC (Instructor Devlopment Course) consists of two sections, the Assistant Instructor (AI) course and the Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program. This structure lets you divide the course into two blocks for schedule convenience if you need to. However, you may prefer to complete the two portions together, going through the entire IDC in as few as seven days.
The first part of the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) is the PADI Assistant Instructor course. This course provides you additional experience as a PADI Professional and teaches you the PADI System of diver education.
PADI Assistant Instructors:
Teach knowledge development (classroom) presentations (under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor)
Evaluate Open Water Diver surface skills (under the indirect supervision of a PADI Instructor)
Teach the Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty course
PADI Divemaster rating or qualifying certification from another organization
Be at least 18 years old
60 logged dives (with experience in night, deep and navigation)
Proof of CPR and first aid training within the last 24 months
What it takes:
Self-study – Knowledge reviews, quizzes, lectures and presentations
Confined water – Skills review and assessment, workshops and presentations
Open Water – Workshops, rescue assessment and candidate presentations
The Open Water Scuba Instructor program portion of the PADI IDC further hones your leadership and teaching skills to prepare you for life as a PADI Instructor.
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor Program Course Prerequisites:
PADI Assistant Instructor certification
Certified diver for at least six months
60 logged dives (with experience in night, deep, and navigation)
Proof of CPR and first aid training within the last 24 months.
After the success of last year’s event, the Easter Egg Hunt is back!!!! Come and join us on WatcombeBeach on Sunday 6th April 2008 from 9am. Everyone is welcome, young and old, divers and non-divers, there will be something for everyone.
As our regulars will know, each year TDC run dive trips to Lundy Island giving our divers a unique opportunity to interact with seals and experience some north coast diving. This year we will be running three trips (please see dates below). To avoid disapointment book your place early as these trips have proved extremly popular in the past and the places go quickly.
The Open Water Scuba Instructor program portion of the PADI IDC further hones your leadership and teaching skills to prepare you for life as a PADI Instructor. 
