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Instructor Pro IDC Tips

We can’t tell you all the secrets of the IDC & IE, but we can give you some helpful and useful bit of advice to prepare, flourish & then succeed during your instructor course!

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IDC Physiology Exam Tips – Understanding Ears

IDC Physiology Exam Tips as problems with the ears is one of the most common injuries you will face as a scuba diving instructor. General soreness may occur in a lot of new scuba divers as they get used to equalizing. Students or unexperienced divers equalizing to forcefully will be one of the most common injury and instructor will face. They say the problem with ears can occur as shallow as one metre. This means that a student could possibly have issues whilst doing to confined water session. Caution needs to be taken in the shallowest of water. What can further enhance this issue is that there is no physical way of teaching a [...]

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Understanding PADI IDC Physics Exam – Tips

This blog is complimenting our first physics blog Strategies to Help You Through PADI IDC Physics Exam. Here you will find some basic explanations of some of the physics topics you will face when you are doing your physics exam at your PADI Instructor Examinations. As you will see, some of tips are very simplified. Some physic equations can be quite complex. We have tried to simplify it for the ease of learning. Because PADI only needs a basic understanding of physics then the simple approach should be enough to get you through. Water has weight and weight has pressure. With water, this pressure can push up or push down. [...]

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Strategies to Help You Through PADI IDC Physics Exam

In all the years I have been involved in IDCs, the Physics exam is by far the most common “stress causer” that effects IDC candidates. Sadly often, it is the mere thought of doing Physics, even just the word that deters some candidates more so than their ability to answer the question. Often, when getting a question wrong the candidate will reply, “ I knew that, I don’t know why I didn’t do it”. A candidate could do that multiple times on an exam. The more times a student does that the more pressure builds for the next exam. The good news is that PADI does not expect you to be a physics professor. They just want you to [...]

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How to do a PADI IDC Rescue #7 – Unconscious Diver at the Surface

PADI place a lot of emphasis on the skill Unconscious Diver at the Surface or what is commonly known as Rescue #7. It is a skill that you had to do in your PADI Rescue Course, your PADI Divemaster Course, at you Instructor Examination and if you go on to be a PADI Course Director you will have to do it at your CDTC. There can be slight variations on how the skill is performed. In real life, adjustments could have to be made depending on weather and wave height. There could be adjustments made because of the size/weight of the victim and the rescuer, particularly if you have a small rescuer and large victim. However, there are four [...]

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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. The open water [...]

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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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The Best Instructor Development Center In Thailand

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!