PADI Instructor Development Course ("IDC")
Are you ready to join the ranks of the dedicated professionals who teach the world’s most progressive and popular scuba diver education programs? Then Go PROSM with an Instructor Development Course.
At Latchi Watersports we run our IDC & EFRI program over 14 days. We time our programs so that the PADI Instructor Exam runs 1 day after our IDC has finished. During the courses, you will have 24/7 support from our in house PADI Course Director.

Instructor Development Course ("IDC")
A PADI Divemaster who has been a certified diver for six months may enrol in the PADI Instructor Development Course. You also need:
- At least 60 logged dives and 100 dives to attend an IE.
- Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care (CPR and First Aid) training within the past 24 months.
- A medical statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months
You also need to be an Emergency First Response Instructor, but you can earn this rating during your instructor training.
Dive professionals who hold an instructor rating with another diver training organization may be eligible to enrol directly in the OWSI program. This recognizes prior instructor training and provides a path to become a PADI Instructor.
During the course, you’ll learn how to apply the PADI System of Education and Practice.
To do this there is a mixture of confined water teaching presentations, open water teaching presentations knowledge development presentations as well as the following 19 curriculum classroom presentations:
Course Orientation, Dive Industry Overview, General Standards and Procedures, The Role of Media and Prescriptive Teaching, Legal Responsibility and Risk Management, PADI Scuba Diver and Open Water Diver Course, Adaptive Teaching, The PADI Continuing Education Philosophy, Business Principles for the Dive Instructor, Adventures in Diving Program, Specialty Diver Courses and Master Scuba Diver Program, Rescue Diver Course, Divemaster Course, Diver Retention Programs, How to Teach the RDP.
You also have 5 Dive exams on dive theory: physics, physiology, equipment, RDP&eRDPml, skills and the environment.
- PADI Scuba Diver/Open Water Diver
- Adventure Diver/Advanced Open Water Diver
- Rescue Diver
- Divemaster
- Skin Diver and Discover Snorkelling
- Discover Scuba Diving
- PADI Seal Team and Bubblemaker
- ReActivate and Discover Local Diving
- Peak Performance Buoyancy
- Project AWARE Specialty
- Coral Reef Conservation
PADI IDC Crew Pack required for the IDC includes:
- Confined Water and Open Water cue cards
- Adventures in Diving cue cards
- Rescue Diver cue cards
- Divemaster cue cards
- Confined and Open Water lesson planning slate
- Open Water Course prescriptive lesson guides
- Open Water Course final exam
- Rescue Diver Course final exam
- Divemaster Course final exam
- PADI Guide to teaching
- Dive planning and Skill practice slate
- Specialty Instructor Outlines CD-ROM
- A positive approach to selling DVD
- Diving knowledge workbook
PADI Backpack - PADI Instructor Decal
- EFR Instructor Manual (if required)
Contact us for current pricing of PADI materials
- PADI Application Fees 2019 (Paid directly to PADI at the time of the Instructor Exam)
- IDC Application € 172.00
- Instructor Examination Fee € 595.00
- Emergency First Response Instructor Application € 107.00
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