Blue Fin Divers on the island of Naxos, Greece.
- Do you want to have the oceans and seas of the world as your office?
- Do you want to be part of a community where you share your love and passion for diving and exploration?
- Do you like working with people and teaching others the skills to become a qualified diver?
- Do you want to have the opportunity to have a side job from you normal day job?
- Do you want to become an instructor in the largest dive organisation in the World, PADI?
PADI 5 Star IDC Center Blue Fin Dives is one of the most succesful dive centers in cyclades. We now offer the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) which is a 10 day course that teaches you methods of how to accurately and professionally teach the theoretical and practical sides of scuba diving.
Open Water Scuba Instructor + EFR Instructor Course Price 1100 euro*
*The price does not include materials, Padi fees and VAT 24%
Ten days working together on how to deliver the dive theory, confined and open water training, understanding the safety aspects of teaching divers, getting better at speaking in front of others, bringing you demonstrations and rescue skills to a new level and much more. The course prepares you to work as a dive instructor after certification, through scenario passed workshops, discussion of what ever dive related issues may rise and training in all the aspects of being a succesfull PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.
The IDC is run by Blue Fin Divers own award winning Course Director Morten Steen, already being an experienced diver, had his first dives with Panos, the owner and founder of Blue Fin Divers in 2010 and fell in love with the island, and the level of professionalism, skills and dedicated friendly atmosphere at the dive center. A few years later he returned to work with the team and learn from Panos and his staff for 2 seasons. Keeping in touch with Blue Fin Divers from then on, and considering himself a permanent part of the team, though being located in Denmark.
Besides being a PADI Course Director, Morten is Full Trimix Open Circuit, MOD 3 JJCCR Rebreather and Full Cave CCR diver. Being an experienced Recreational and Technical diver it brings a broad view to a lot of aspect in diving into the IDC you can have at Blue Fin Divers.
The requirements to qualify for for the IDC are as follows.
* Must have PADI Divemaster, or leadership level of diving with another diver training organization. Please contact us if you are coming from another organization.
* Must be 18 years of age and older.
* Have logged a minimum of 60 dives.
* Documented experience in night diving, deep diving and underwater navigation.
* Medical clearance attesting to dive fitness signed by a physician within the last 12 months.
*Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care course completion (or qualifying training) within the last 24 months. Please contact us if you have other experience that might qualify you.
* If not a PADI Divemaster, complete the PADI Divemaster course dive rescue assessment and submit documentation of qualifying certifications for entry-level, advanced, rescue and leadership level to PADI.
If you are a PADI divemaster you need to be in active teaching status, and registred in PADI EMEA.
To prepare for the IDC you go through the IDC eLearning a week or two before the course starts. You need to have your own original one. You need to have your demonstrating skills present since its better use the time to polish skills than to learn skills.
One or two weeks before the start of the course, we meet on Zoom to say hi, and talk through what you need to prepare, and check what still needs to be done so you are fully prepared.
The first day you bring your own scuba diving equipment. Apart from this you need to bring logbook, all certificates, a medical that clears you for diving and signed by a physician. To teach a diving course you need to have, and know, the same materials that the students have, so you need to bring current versions of the PADI Open Water, Advanced Open Water, Rescue Diver and Divemaster manuals, with the Slates that comes with them, the “Encyclopaedia of Recreational Diving”, the RDP end eRDPml with instructions. The materials can be the physical og the digital versions. Should you be in doubt, or have any questions please do not hesitate to contact morten@dykkerakademiet.dk or info@bluefindivers.gr
Kind regards,
Blue Fin Divers team
