Open Water Scuba Instructor Rating

The Instructor Development Program prepares you to function as a Open Water Scuba Instructor. In addition, it further develops your leadership and teaching abilities to the instructor level and prepares you to teach programs.

To qualify for the Instructor Development program, you must:

1. Be currently certified as a Assistant Instructor or a Divemaster, or as an instructor with another recreational diver training organization.
2. Be at least 18 years old.
3. Be fit for diving and submit a satisfactory medical form signed by a physician.
4. Have been a certified diver for at least six months and logged at least 60 open water dives with experience in night, deep and navigation prior to beginning the Instructor Development Program, and have been a certified diver for at least 6 months and logged at least 100 dives prior to entering the Instructor Examination.
5.  Be an EFR Instructor

During the Instructor Development program, you'll learn the System of diver education, standards and procedures, effective academic teaching presentations, teaching in confined water, conducting open water training dives and additional related topics. You'll learn these topics one of two ways; through the Instructor Development Program (IDC) or the Instructor Orientation Program (IOC). If you are already an active and current AI, you may qualify to take just the 2nd half of the IDC in preparation for the IE.

(Note: the IOC option is available only if you're an instructor who is current with another certification organization and wish to crossover to become a Instructor.)

After successful completion of the IDC or IOC, you must successfully complete the Instructor Examination (IE). You will be evaluated on; dive theory, academic teaching, confined-water (pool) teaching, open-water teaching and general diving skills and professionalism.

As a Open Water Scuba Instructor you can conduct the entire range of experience programs and diver programs, from Open Water Diver through Divemaster (except for specialties and Frist Response, which require specific Specialty Diver Instructor and First Response® Instructor ratings).

After successfully completing your IDC/IOC and IE, you will receive a certification card and certificate denoting this professional rating.  You'll also become a member of and receive benefits, including the ability to purchase professional liability insurance (which may be required to conduct some activities).

The IDC/IOC is availble from Career Development Centers and 5 Star Dive Centers. For information on the IDC/IOC, give us a call today....we can get you started on your path toward being a Instructor!

Course Fee:  $1195

EFR Instructor Fee:  $250

All students enrolled in a course with Abyss-Scuba receive a 10% discount on purchases of equipment during their term as a student.