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Upcoming IDC courses

LOCATION EFR Instr DATES IDC DATES IE DATES
Menorca / IE Mallorca 12 - 13/05/2025 14 - 23/05/2025 24 - 25/05/2025
Marseille 09 - 10/06/2025 11 - 20/06/2025 21 - 22/06/2025
Hurghada (Red Sea) 31/8 - 01/09/2025 02 - 19/09/2025 20 - 21/09/2025
Menorca 11 - 12/10/2025 13 - 22/10/2025 23 - 24/10/2025
Marseille 03 - 04/11/2025 05 - 14/11/2025 15 - 16/11/2025
Hurghada (Red Sea) 17 - 18/11/2025 19/11 - 05/12/2025 06 - 07/12/2025

Become a PADI Instructor

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Are you a certified divemaster or assistant ready to take dive leadership to the next level?


So, you're ready to start your journey to PADI® Instructor status.


PADI Instructors are the most in-demand dive professionals, with professional dive opportunities available around the world.


As a PADI Instructor, you will transform the lives of others while living a life others only dream of.

Start now!

Why Become a PADI Dune Instructor?


Red Dune is present on four continents of the world:


  • Africa
  • Americas
  • Asia
  • Europe


The Dune group includes several diving centers as well as life on board.


Our goal is to train Instructors who share our values, which are:


  • FUN
  • Smile
  • Easy
  • Curiosity
  • PRO
  • Security
  • Sincerity
  • ο»ΏSustainable development


And offer the opportunity to work in any destination of the Dune group.


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Implying?

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  1. If you are ready to become a PADI Instructor, enroll in the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC).
  2. During your training at the IDC, you will expand your knowledge as a certified divemaster or assistant, while developing your public speaking and teaching skills. You will also hone your in-water drills to demonstration levels, and learn how to properly assess the in-water drills performed by student divers.
  3. ο»ΏUpon successful completion of the IDC, you will attend a PADI Instructor Exam conducted by PADI Regional Office staff. This is the final step in earning your PADI Instructor certification. The Instructor Exam is exclusive to PADI and ensures that all new PADI Instructors are prepared for real-world teaching prior to certification.


What can I teach as a PADI Instructor?

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As a PADI Instructor, you can teach and direct a wide variety of PADI's most popular courses and recreational programs, including:


  • PADI Scuba Diver/Open Water Diver
  • Adventure Diver/Advanced Open Water Diver
  • Rescue Diver
  • Divemaster
  • Advanced Snorkeler (Skin Diver) y Discover Snorkeling
  • Discover Scuba® Diving
  • PADI Seal Team™ y Bubblemaker™
  • PADI ReActivate® y Discover Local Diving
  • Peak Performance Buoyancy
  • PADI AWARE™ Specialty
  • ο»ΏCoral Reef Conservation


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How it works ?

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As a candidate you will have to complete the following curriculum components:


  1. Get Started
  2. Diving Theory
  3. PADI System
  4. Learning, Instruction (...)
  5. Discover Scuba Diving (...)
  6. Open Water Diver Course
  7. Risk management and legal considerations
  8. Quality Management
  9. Introduction to academic presentations
  10. Direct and evaluate Knowledge Development
  11. Confined Water Training
  12. Open Water Training
  13. Continuing Education (.. .)
  14. ο»ΏThe Diving Business


workshops

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You will also need to complete the following components of the IDC:

  1. Orientation
  2. Diving Theory Workshop
  3. PADI System Workshop
  4. Learning and Instruction Workshop
  5. DSD Workshop
  6. Open Water course organization workshop
  7. Risk Management Workshop
  8. Academic presentations workshop
  9. Exercises development workshop
  10. Confined water training workshop
  11. Open water training workshop
  12. Continuing education workshop
  13. Advanced Open Water course workshop
  14. Rescue course workshop
  15. Sales techniques workshop
  16. ο»ΏClosing of the course

Skills


You have to execute the 24 diving exercises of the Exercise Evaluation, obtaining a minimum score of 82 total points.


Swim 400 metres/yards without stopping, without swimming aids and using any stroke or combination thereof.


Complete 10 minutes of flotation, moving or floating without using swimming aids and wearing only a bathing suit.


theoretical exams

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Earn a score of 75 percent on all sections of the Diving Theory Exam:


    PhysicsPhysiologyEquipmentDiving Skills and the EnvironmentRecreational Dive Planner (RDP)


Exam Standards and Procedures

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Earn a minimum score of 75 percent on the PADI System, Standards and Procedures Exam.

knowledge development


Submit at least three academic knowledge development presentations, earning a minimum score of 3.4

Presentations in confined waters


Present at least four Confined Water (in water) teaching presentations, earning a minimum score of 3.4 in at least two


Open Water Presentations


Present at least two integrated teaching presentations (two exercises) in open water (in the water), earning a minimum score of 3.4 on each exercise for one presentation


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