COURSE DIRECTOR – Julian Pirie

PADI Course Director Julian Pirie began his professional diving career as a marine archaeologist working on underwater Roman sites and shipwrecks around the Mediterranean. Julian’s passion for teaching lead him to transition to developing professional divers full time across the Philippines and Thailand over the last decade. Now based in Koh Tao, he is one of the most active Course Directors in the world running double digit programs a year. IDC’s with Julian take a modern approach leveraging the PADI digital suite of products and giving you access to his unique online lessons and training materials to augment your knowledge before the program begins live. Through his experience working and diving across four continents, and his affiliation with the Dive Careers network, all Julian’s candidates have access to robust employment support for their entire diving careers. The Instructor Development Course is more than a course, it is the beginning of a professional relationship built to ensure your diving success for years to come.

GETTING STARTED

PADI’s eLearning option lets you study independently at your own pace before class. The PADI IDC now includes PADI’s eLearning as the standard pre-IDC training method.

There are nine interactive knowledge development sections. Pre-studying online saves classroom time, which allows more time for practicing the skills that distinguish you as a PADI Instructor.
Upon signing up for our PADI IDC we shall register for you the PADI Digital IDC Online Pak. This will need to be completed before starting the IDC.

Online Presentations

The advantage of online training allows our students to be fully prepared before they arrive at our dive center to complete the Instructor development. This allows our course director to cover areas of the knowledge development and prepare the candidates for the instructor exams. This then lets us focus on the in-water training during the dates when the candidates are on site at our dive center on Phi Phi Island.

• IDC Systems Workshop
• IDC Learning and Teaching Workshop
• DSD Workshop
• Open Water Workshop
• Classroom Prescriptive Teaching Workshop
• Advanced Open Water Workshop
• Teaching in Confined Water Workshop
• Teaching in Open Water Workshop
• Rescue Diver Workshop
• Risk Management and Licensing Workshop
• Business of Diving and Sales Workshop
• Divemaster Workshop
• Specialties Workshop
• Unique prep workshops for theory sections: Physics, Physiology, Equipment and the Recreational Dive Planner
• Access to comprehensive equipment guides, designed to advise professional divers

INSTRUCTOR DEVELOPMENT COURSE

After completing the online training you will be ready to start the Instructor Development Course (IDC), :

Confined water training:

• Develop your teaching techniques for OW – RESCUE skills
• Control and organization techniques for delivering safe and effective teaching
• Perfect your demonstration abilities with a focus on neutral buoyancy

Open water teaching:

• Learn to present skills from multiple courses and ensure all students meet full performance requirements
• Confidently control groups and deliver effective safe workshops to student divers

Classroom teaching:

• Be able to expand on topics and deliver quality instruction surrounding all PADI knowledge reviews and assessments

Emergency First Response Instructor:

• Become a certified EFR Instructor and deliver all three core programs
• Learn to modify programs to deliver first aid to children and infants
• Expand your First Aid abilities integrating Automated External Defibrillation and Oxygen use into your training

Equipment sales workshop:

• Participate in live workshops, gaining knowledge in being able to intelligently discuss all pieces of dive equipment to effectively advise customers

Expand what you can teach:

• Participate in complementary EANx Instructor rating training
• Upgrade your training with MSDT prep, choose four more of: Wreck, Deep, Night, Naturalist, Adaptive Techniques, Dive Against Debris, Oxygen Provider, Underwater Photography or Diver Propulsion Vehicle specialties

Those with sidemount or technical diving experience may also select Sidemount or Self-Reliant specialty instructor ratings

You will also have access to a unique preparation exam bank beyond those provided by PADI to ensure you are prepared, 16 exams designed to give you the practice and experience to be ready. 100% written exam pass rate with our system!

WHAT EQUIPMENT WILL YOU NEED?

IDC candidates will need to provide all of their own scuba diving equipment. They should also have available the following safety equipment:

• Dive Computer

• SMB (Surface Marker Buoy)

• Dive Knife

WHAT DO WE PROVIDE?

• Full access to our dive center facilities

• Free WIFI

• Tea and Coffee

• 7 days free dive trips, before or after the course

• Meals and refreshments on dive boat

• Weights

• Tanks

PADI INSTRUCTOR EXAMINATION (IE)