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Simplifying Your PADI IDC Choices

Simplifying Your PADI IDC Choices

Aussie Divers Phuket – Instructor Development Course

Simplifying Your PADI IDC Choices

1. What You Will Need to Start

· Be a certified diver for at least 6 months
· Be at least 18 years of age
· Be a PADI Divemaster or equivalent from other agency
· 60 logged dives to start 100 to be certified (let us know if you do not have 100 logged dives)
· Experience in Navigation dives, night dives and deep dives
· Have Emergency First Response Training or equivalent with CPR Training completed in the last 24 months
· Have a medical certificate not older than 12 month and must be signed by a doctor

2. Select a Date

Dates for Free IDC Preparation, Instructor Development Course and PADI Instructor Examination

Extra Time Required
Specialties 1 -3 days
MSDT Training (25 certifications) 4 – 8 weeks

3. What the Aussie Divers Phuket IDC will cost you.

Please note that you will need to be an Emergency First Response to be a PADI Open Water Instructor. For this reason we have combined it in our pricing package.

Aussie Divers Phuket IDC – THB 45,000 including EFRI Training
Specialties – THB 5,000 each or 5 for THB 20,000
MSDT Training (25 Certifications) – THB 15,000

4. Materials Cost

You will need your own materials and cannot share or used second hand materials.

PADI IDC Crew Pack: THB 18,000
Emergency First Response Pack: THB 9,000

5. What you have to pay PADI

*** Note prices are in Australian Dollars***

IDC Application AUD $227
EFR Instructor AUD $156
Specialty Instructor AUD $89 per specialty
Instructor Examination AUD $785

6. What is Included

· Free rental equipment exc. dive computer
· Lunch each day
· Drinks and snacks
· All associated costs during the course including required dives, pool fees, tanks etc.
· 15% Discount on all equipment purchased from Aussie Divers Phuket (can be pre ordered)
· Honest dealing and no surprises
· Real life training – become a real instructor not a paper instructor

7. What is not included

Accommodation – We can assist you with nice budget accommodation from as little as THB 450 per night.

Dives – 60 to 100 – Contact us for a budget price to get you up to 100 dives

8. Why Darren Gaspari and his team and why Aussie Divers Phuket

· We are honest truthful and hard working

· You will be taught by a team that is still actively teaching a wide range of PADI courses

· We care about you and your training, we don’t just want you to pass the PADI IE we want you to become a real PADI instructor

· We will only teach in English, no interpreting interuptions guaranteed

· We offer customer service second to none in Phuket

· You will become a part of a team that loves scuba diving

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Living The Dream After Instructor Graduation

Finding work after becoming a Scuba Diving Instructor can sometimes be a daunting task, you are competing against people with much more experience who have been working in the industry longer. The best thing about doing your Instructor Course in Phuket is that there is almost always work for new instructors and Aussie Divers will help you to get it. We have awesome and varied post graduation programs, ranging from 'Ride Alongs' with our elite instructors to instructor internships where experience & responsibility can be had in real world environments with real customers, getting you the qualifications & certifications you need to be attractive to employers.

The absolute best way to ensure employability after you graduate to a fully fledged (OWSI) Open Water Scuba Diving Instructor is to continue your training with PADI, especially when it comes to the PADI instructor specialties we teach here at Aussie Divers. Once you have five Instructor specialties under your belt you will become an M.S.D.T or Master Scuba Diver Trainer, which looks much better on your diving resume'. Specialties include being able to teach the PADI Deep Diver (40m), Enriched Air Nitrox, PADI Wreck Diver, Sidemount Diver, Digital Underwater Photographer courses, plus many many more!

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Here at Aussie Divers IDC Phuket we do not worry about the number of divers or IDC candidates we have, we worry exclusively about the quality of your education, be it one person or many, you'll never feel abandoned or bored when training, working or diving with us. Maintaining relationships before during and after any courses done with us is what Aussie Divers is all about. To help manage such a huge base of divers & industry professionals we built this diver network, connecting on every social media platform we can think of coupled with extremely helpful blog articles, to keep you engaged & to keep you engaged with us for the entirety of your diving career!