open water scuba instructor

Gain the skills to be able to teach the divers of the future

    Prerequisites:

    – Minimum age 18

    – Certified SDI Advanced Adventure Diver or equivalent; advanced certification must include verifiable experience in deep, navigation, night, and limited visibility specialties

    – Certified SDI Rescue Diver or equivalent

    – Provide proof of current CPR, first aid and oxygen provider(where local law permits)*

    – Provided proof of at least 40 logged dives 

    *Note: CPR, first aid and Oxygen Provider courses may be combined with the your Divemaster program.

    What you get out of this course:

    On successful completion of this course, graduates will be able to:

    – Assist an active SDI Instructor during approved diving courses provided the activities are similar to the graduate’s prior training

    – Supervise and conduct dives for certified divers, provided the activities are similar to the graduate’s prior experience and training

     

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    Course Requirements:

    Theory

    – Complete all E-learning Modules before any practical lessons start.

    – Classroom sessions on (these sessions will either be completed in a classroom or through our online classroom):

    • SDI Standards and Procedures
    • History of SDI
    • Products and Procedures
    • Liability and insurance
    • Filling out an accident report
    • Methods of Instruction
    • Successfully Selling Scuba
    • Instructor Ethics
    • Physics and Physiology of Diving
    Land Skills

    – To demonstrate quality, all skills listed in the SDI Open water scuba diver course. 

    – Present a minimum of Two classroom presentations

    In-water Skills

    -Present a minimum of

    a. Two lessons in confined water

    b. Two lessons in open water

    – Show preparation, planning and control in

    a. Dive management

    b. Diving activities

    – Perform, to demonstration quality, one complete rescue scenario

    – Perform a 10 minute survival-float, without the use of swimming aids

    – 400 metre swim on the surface, non-stop, any stroke, without the use of swimming aids, in less than 10 minutes; swim goggles permitted

    – 800 metre swim with mask, snorkel, and fins non-stop without the use of arms in less than 17 minutes

    – Bring a diver, simulating unconsciousness, up from depth, not greater than 6 metres / 20 feet; at the surface swim them 100 metres in less than 4 minutes

    – to demonstration quality, all skills listed in the SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Course

    – Pool/confined water problem solving Open Water

    – In open water candidates must perform, to demonstration quality, all skills listed in the SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Course

    – Open water problem solving