When you train to become an IDC Staff instructor you will further develop your skills to evaluate candidate abilities as well as learning how to counsel skills through classroom sessions and guided evaluation training. Preassessment, knowledge development and evaluation training normally take place before auditing an entire IDC or alternately, presenting all Assistant Instructor course components.

During your preassessment you will take Dive Theory and Standards exams and present a knowledge development, confined water and open water presentation. You will perform a 24 skills circuit, 400 metre swim, and match most of the controlling scores for the IDC candidates knowledge, confined and open water presentations.

IDC Staff Instructor Duties include: 

• Independently teaching and certifying PADI Assistant Instructors.
• Conducting IDC training segments while a PADI Course Director is present, in control and available on premises for consultation.
• Evaluate and critique instructor candidate knowledge development, confined water and open water teaching presentations.
• Provide counselling and remedial training for instructor candidates and IDC Staff instructor candidates.
• Assist with instructor-level continuing education programs, such as PADI Specialty Instructor Training courses.
• Observe the orientation and closing sessions of PADI Instructor Examinations

PADI fees not included:

• Payable direct to PADI in AUD

To qualify for training on your PADI IDC Staff Instructor Course, you must:

1. Be at least 18 YEARS OLD
2. Be a qualified PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT)
3. Be a PADI EFR Instructor
4. Be fit for diving and submit a PADI Medical Statement signed by a physician within the last 12 months