Thailand PADI IDC Instructor level training:
Nitrox (EANx), rebreather, wreck diving and many more...

Once you are a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) you will want to continue your diving education. All over the world people are discovering new and exciting places to dive, with more and more PADI facilities appearing to accommodate this growing market. At the same time there are more and more people becoming certified as PADI Instructors wanting to fill these vacancies.

To get the job you want, in the location you want, you need to be a cut above the average instructor by not only having a more Indepth knowledge of diving and the business of diving, but by also being able to offer more to both the Dive Centre and their customers.

Teaching Continuing Education courses allows you to do this whilst diving your favourite dive sites, teaching your favourite subjects and increasing your personal income !!!

As a PADI OWSI your first step should be attaining your PADI Medic First Aid Instructor (MFAI) rating, allowing you to teach a complete range of basic PADI courses up to Divemaster. Not being able to teach Medic First Aid (MFA) won't stop you teaching the PADI Rescue Diver Course - but it will mean that you will have to give your students to another PADI instructor to teach them the MFA course before they can be certified as PADI Rescue Divers.

Why not teach the whole program yourself ... ???

Your next step should be on to the rating of the PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT). This rating assures your future employers that not only can you offer their customers PADI Specialty Training in at least 5 different areas, but you are also an experienced PADI instructor with at least 25 student certifications.

Completing Specialty Instructor Training with a PADI Course Director ensures that you not only receive up to date information on PADI standards, valuable hands on training using the latest techniques, but it will also allow you to start teaching these exciting PADI courses immediately, prior to having gained the 25 certifications you need if applying directly to PADI.

Further down the road is the PADI IDC Staff instructor course, which teaches you how to staff Instructor Development Courses (IDCs). Once certified as a PADI IDC Staff instructor you will not only be able to staff IDCs, giving presentations and evaluating IDC candidates, but you will also be able to teach the increasingly important PADI Assistant Instructor course, a responsibility only IDC Staff Instructors and Course Directors share.

The IDC Staff Instructor rating is also a prerequisite for the prestigious PADI Master Instructor rating: an IDC Staff instructor and Medic First Aid Instructor, who has been an instructor for at least two years, and has certified at least 150 students including at least 15 PADI Specialty Divers, 5 Rescue Divers, 5 Divemasters and 5 Assistant Instructors.