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Aussie Divers Phuket – Extended IDC Training
The PADI Instructor Development Course can be a full on and sometimes challenging and stressful course. There is quite a bit to get through, there is new information and new tasks and each day is jammed with things to do and learn.
What we are offering now is some extra time spent with our professional dive time tailored to your needs. You can use this time to do a number of different things. Skill practice , theory practice, course assistance or just to do the IDC at a much more relaxed place.
Your bread and butter course when you become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor is the PADI Open Water Course.
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Divemaster Flashback #1 – Thomas Wetteland Kristiansen
Thomas was from Skjeburg in Norway. He did his PADI Divemaster course with Aussie Divers Phuket way back in 2013. He was Aussie Divers Phuket first ever Divemaster Trainee.
He was originally here for a bartenders course, walked into Aussie Divers Phuket to book a day trip dive and left Phuket as a PADI Open Water Instructor.
Thomas possessed excellent underwater buoyancy and score very high in both his exams and skill circuit.
He completed his PADI Instructor Development Course with ease and again score highly in all areas.
He also possessed excellent social and customer service skills and was a loved and respected member [...]
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Tips on the IDC Confined Water / Open Presentations
Tips on the IDC Confined Water Presentation there are two in water components of you PADI Instructor Examination. They will be 1: a single skill confined water presentation conducted in a swimming pool and 2: one open water presentation containing two different skills and this will be conducted in open water.
In confined water (pool) will teach a group (other I.E Candidates) how to do a skill from the confined water section of the PADI Open Water Course.
PADI make this presentation quite easy for you as you will be provided with a preparation slate in your PADI IDC slate pack. You will hear these words frequently during yo [...]
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Tips on the IDC Classroom Presentation
During the you Instructor development course and at the Instructor Examination you will be required to do a Classroom Presentation. You will need to pass this presentation in order to become an PADI Instructor. This blog covers some tips on the IDC Classroom Presentation & how to prepare for this.
You will be giving the question at the start of your PADI Instructor Examination. Your presentation topic will be an incorrect knowledge review question that the student has gotten wrong. Most of these are from the PADI Open Water, Rescue and Divemaster courses. However you can get questions from the Advanced Open Water Course, Project Awa [...]
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10 Things You Can Do to Make Your IDC Easier
Here are a few tips to help you get through you Instructor Development Course. These are not tips to do when you arrive. They are to help you prepare BEFORE you arrive. Many candidates arrive unprepared and can struggle through the course. The IDC is not a course where you are taught the basics again, there simply will not be time. It is a course where you learn to teach. Here are some tips that will make your IDC easier.
PADI assumes that you retained everything that you have learnt in your previous courses, Open Water Course, Advanced Open Water Course, Rescue Course and Divemaster course.
The IDC is not the time to learn how to d [...]
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Darren Gaspari – PADI Gold Course Director Award 2018
After a great year teaching Instructor Development Courses at Aussie Divers Phuket, PADI Course Director Darren Gaspari received the converted Gold PADI Course Director Award.
It was a fantastic award to receive and very humbling to be in the company of some of the world's best PADI Course Directors.
Aussie Divers Phuket will be running monthly Instructor Development Courses every month for 2018.
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Turning Divers Pro From Around the World
Where will the next Aussie Divers Professional Come From?
Turning Divers Pro in a few short years Aussie Divers Phuket has come a long way.
The Aussie Divers Phuket Recreation team have served scuba divers from over 127 different countries around the world, the PADI Pro team have also been busy.
In the five years that Aussie Divers Phuket has been a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Centre they have trained PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors from a number of different countries including Australia, USA, England, Maldives, China, Belgium, France, Thailand, Germany, Holland, Austria, United Arab Emirates, Djibouti, South Africa [...]
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