SDI is one of the scuba diving agencies that are “kind of nice” but deep inside if you become an SDI Instructor by doing the SDI IDC, well, little or no scuba diving job will you find, manly because all the diving jobs are for people that decide to do their PADI IDC instead. But still the SDI Instructor Course is a good course and instructors that are build in the SDI system seem to know what they are doing.
so how the SDI IDC course goes? Well, this are some of the objectives / Requirements
-
- successfully market scuba
- Properly teach and design academic and in water sessions
- Effectively utilize assistants.
- Preparing and teaching academic sessions
- knowledge of subject matter
- Pool/confined water lessons
- Open water lessons
- Emergency management abilities
- Be at least 18 Years Old
- Have been a certified diver for at least 6 months
- Have a current medical examination for diving
- 100 logged dives
- B a certified SDI Divemaster or Assistant Instructor
- Be qualified as a Oxygen Provider
- Have a current CPR and 1st Aid certification
- Internship of 5 open water classes, 1 rescue, 1 specialty as divemaster
- Crossover for Instructors from PADI, SSI, NAUI available to able to teach the SDI system
- Materials: SDI Open Water Instructor Manual
As you can see at first glance it looks pretty much like any PADI IDC or Even the SSI Instructor course, but one of the things I like is the fact that SDI instructors need to do an internship, so at least they get some experience of teaching. PADI and SSI lack in this field.
The IDC teaches you how to
The IEC evaluates everything you learned during the IDC. This is typically a two day evaluation process and evaluates your abilities in:
Tags: SDI, SDI IDC, SDI Instructor Course
