PADI IDC Preparation

Prior to beginning your PADI IDC, Absolute Scuba would like to ensure that you are adequately prepared and there are no surprises.

Prerequisites prior to any participation in a PADI IDC:

• You must 18 years of age.
• Submit a medical statement verifying that you are fit for diving and signed by a physician within the last 12 months.
• Proof of CPR training within the last 24 months. The PADI EFR course fulfills requirement.
• Be a renewed PADI Divemaster or PADI Assistant Instructor, or a current Instructor affiliated with another certification agency.
• Prior to PADI IDC, be a certified diver for a minimum of 6 months and logged 60 dives.
• Prior to PADI IE, be a certified diver for a minimum of 6 months and logged 100 dives.
• Required photocopies of previous diving certifications along with your last five log pages.

The necessary materials for the PADI IDC.

Below is a list of materials that you must have for the PADI IDC, these materials are available from Absolute Scuba Bali at the normal PADI professional rates.

1. PADI Instructor Manual Updated
2. PADI IDC candidate workbook
3. PADI Open Water & PADI Confined Water Aquatic cue cards
4. PADI Open Water & PADI Confined Water lesson preparation slates
5. PADI Open Water Diver Manual
6. PADI Recreational Dive Planner, The Wheel and table, and Instructions for Use
7. PADI Open Water Diver Quizzes and Exam booklet
8. PADI Adventures in Diving Manual
9. PADI Rescue Diver Manual
10. PADI Rescue Diver Final Exams Booklet
11. PADI Divemaster Manual
12. PADI Divemaster Final Exams Booklet
13. The Law and the Diving Professional
14. The Business of Diving
15. The Best of the Undersea Journal
16. Peak Performance Buoyancy Specialty Instructor Specialty Instructor Outline
17. Project AWARE Specialty Program Instructor Outline
18. Aware Coral Reef Conservation Specialty Instructor Outline
19. Full set of Scuba diving equipment.
20. Tanks and weights will be supplied by Absolute Scuba Bali.

Now that you know that you can participate in an PADI IDC

Now it is time to prepare for the PADI IDC

1.Familiarize yourself with the PADI Instructor Manual. This is one of the most important things that you can do as this is your tool with which to teach

2. Look at the latest issues of The Undersea Journal

3. Read the PADI Training Bulletins to make sure you are up to date with any recent changes in standards

4. Practice your dive theory (physics, physiology, the RDP, skills & environment and equipment). The best way is to work through the new Encyclopedia of Recreational diving and the workbook

5. Complete PADI Divemaster exams

Your aim should be to know every right answer, and know why every wrong answer is wrong!

6. Complete all course knowledge reviews prior to the start of the PADI IDC. These knowledge reviews can be found inside the PADI Instructor candidate workbook.

7.Go diving to make sure that you are comfortable in the water. Quite often Instructor candidates will not have dived for some time so it good to make sure that you are familiar with your equipment.

8. Try and help on as many PADI courses as possible, prior to PADI IDC.

9. Practice your diving skills - you especially need to focus on the 20 skills from the PADI Divemaster Skill evaluation slate. Make sure that you can perform all of these skills comfortably with demonstration quality. Buoyancy skills, CESAs, and mask skills tend to be prime skills that the PADI Examiners like to test so make sure that you have these skills honed.

During the PADI IDC and PADI IE, you will be required to perform a rescue exercise. You should try and practice Rescue diver exercise #7.

You will look back on it as one of the most rewarding courses you have completed

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