Career Diving Courses

Poseidon teaches all the PADI Instructor level courses, and this section highlights all those levels beyond your Instructor qualification. Look also at our Packages as some of these are lumped together with the IDC etc and can be done all at once

Why stop at OWSI? You have started on the road and become an Instructor but you have so many options ahead now to expand the areas you can instruct. Imagine being on the other side of the fence at an IDC and teaching the candidates – you can take the IDC Staff Instructor course and be that person.

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2008 Career Development Packages

2008 IDC Fact sheet

Emergency First Response Instructor
Emergency First Response Primary and Secondary Care is a comprehensive program based on professional instructional design and educational protocols, as well as International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) standards.

The program is composed of two core modules and provides extensive instruction in CPR and First Aid, in addition to providing optional Automated External Defibrillator (AED), and emergency oxygen use training.
To become EFR Instructors it is necessary to attend a course run by an EFR Instructor Trainer and Course Director. In Poseidon we are lucky to have one of these rare people!

EANx Instructor
The PADI EANx Nitrox Specialty Instructor course is conducted over one day and will train you how to organize, conduct and market the Nitrox diver course. Nitrox diving is presently becoming very popular worldwide and instructors are strongly recommended to obtain this rating.
Poseidon offers the integration of the EANx course into the IDC. After the completion of the IDC you are EANx Instructor already. However, in order to teach you must have completed the IE and have logged ten Nitrox dives.

IDC Staff Instructor
The IDC Staff instructor course is designed to provide PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainers with additional training necessary to staff PADI IDC’s. The course is conducted over nine days during an actual IDC. Initial IDC Staff training is conducted over two days prior to the IDC. The Candidates then monitor an entire IDC and develop evaluation and counselling skills before completion of IDC Staff certification. A qualified IDC Staff Instructor is certified to teach PADI Assistant Instructor courses and assist in instructor training. Topics covered are the same as an IDC plus additional training in academic, confined water and open water evaluations

Master Scuba Diver Trainer
A Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) is an experienced PADI Instructor who has certified at least 25 PADI divers and has at least five PADI Specialty Instructor ratings. Dive centres and resorts worldwide are looking for staff that are able to teach specialty diver courses. After successful completion of your IE and the MSDT Prep program you may teach five different specialty diver courses immediately.

The MSDT course is actually five Specialty Instructor courses run over 2 - 3 days. PADI Specialty Instructor training courses are designed to train instructors how to organize, conduct, and market PADI Specialty courses. The course involves academic presentations and up to ten open water dives during which candidates are shown how to conduct training dives, briefing and scenarios. Subjects include wreck mapping and survey, penetration skills, use of reels, deep diving techniques, air consumption calculations, navigation skills and techniques, night diving techniques, search and recovery skills, search patterns, use of lifting bags and safe recovery skills.

Speciality Instructor
PADI Specialty Instructors have the best of both worlds. Not only have they earned the qualifications to conduct main stream dive programs such as the PADI Open Water Diver, Advanced, Rescue Diver and Divemaster programs, they can also conduct PADI Specialty Diver programs. These programs help divers to hone their skills in specific area or facets of diving such as wreck, night and deep diving.

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For full descriptions take a look at www.padi.com