The path to becoming an Instructor is quite simple and very rewarding.  Before you can leave the world of recreational diving and head down the path of the professional diver you must first complete up to rescue diver, from there the path is as follows:

  •           Divemaster Course


    The Divemaster course is the first step on the path of the professional diver. As a Divemaster (DM) candidate you will start to learn the valuable leader ship skills needed to take your professional diving career forward.  Your instructor will teach you how to look after and lead groups of certified divers to help them gain the most from there diving, you will also learn how to help instructors handle open water students as they experience there first underwater encounters.  As DM candidates you will also gather valuable theoretical knowledge in Physic, Physiology and Professional Divemaster conduct that will allow you to plan, manage and execute group dives from both boat and shore with all manner of certified diver.  Finally your instructor will help you to refine all the skills you have learnt in your open water diver course to a demonstration quality so that when assisting with student divers your skills will be at a level that they will be not only be learning from there instructor but also you there dive master.
 

  •       Assistant Instructor Course


    The Assistant Instructor Course (AI) builds on what you learnt during your DM course taking the practical training to a new level where you actually start teaching students the basics of diving both in the classroom and pool. During the AI course your instructor will teach you to prepare and deliver lessons in the pool and classroom as well as honing general dive management skills. Although you will not be able to independently instruct the whole open water diver course you will be able to complete knowledge development with Open Water Students as well assisting instructors in the pool and ocean. As an AI you will be able to independently conduct the Inactive Diver and Skin Diver programs, and with a little extra training you will also be able to independently conduct the following specialty diver programs:

  • Altitude Diver
  • Boat Diver
  • Computer Diver
  • Equipment Specialist
  • Marine Ecosystem Awareness Diver
  • Shore/Beach Diver
  • Underwater Photographer Diver
  • Underwater Video Diver            
  • Open Water Instructor Program


    This is the final step in the process of becoming an Instructor, during this course all the diving skills you have learn to this point will be refined and you ability to teach and access will be honed to give you the skills and confidence to be able to take normal people and turn them in to divers. You will learn about the SDI teaching standards and how to follow them. You trainer will put you through simulated teaching scenarios and give you the skills to not only deal with them safely and professionally but to also make sure that the students will learn and be confident afterwards. This course is not assesed by your instructor, when your instructor feels you are ready he will arrange for you to complete and instructor exam with an independent SDI instructor examiner. After successful completion and examination you will be certified to teach Open water, Advanced Adventure, rescue and divemaster programs.  And with a little more training you can teach most of the SDI specialty programs.

      

  •     TDI Instructor Programs


TDI offer a vast range of technical programs from Advanced Nitrox to Deco, Wreck Cave & CCR and we can offer instructor programs for all TDI courses. As these are very specialist programs please contact us for more info.