PADI Dive Instructor Internships
PADI IDC Internships on diving island Koh Tao, Thailand
A PADI Dive Instructor is a great career. Koh Tao Dive-Careers.com and Buddha View Dive Resort give you the chance to make that a reality. Our instructor internships include all fees and materials through to instructor level certifications plus the real life experience and techniques that will come from completing your training at one of the most vibrant, successful dive centers in the world. This is real employment opportunity. Our Dive Instructor internships will give you valuable experience assisting on courses plus added specialty skills to help with a rewarding career in the dive industry. The PADI Instructor Development Programme is conducted by Mark Soworka, one of the most successful instructor trainers around and guarantees you a 100% success for the instructor exam.
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REASONS TO CHOOSE A DIVE CAREERS INTERNSHIP:
Come out the best possible Dive Instructor you can be. With our internship you will gain a great amount of experience and valuable skills. A Dive-Careers.com Dive Instructor Internship gives you the skills to make a great career from diving.
Add these packages to your Dive Instructor Internship on Koh Tao:
Koh Tao Accommodation during your Dive Instructor Internship
- Choose your own accommodation on Koh Tao with your Dive Careers Divemaster Internship. You can choose what type of accommodation you would like and how long you wish to stay. Our packages allow you a choice of accommodation at monthly rates.
Dive Equipment with your Dive Instructor Internship
- Great savings on Dive Equipment packages with our Dive Careers Dive Instructor internships. Our Dive Instructor internships include equipment rent free of charge, but book your equipment package now on line and get great savings. Mix and match equipment to find the package that suits you best.
PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer Internship
- Increase your job opportunity with Speciality Diver Intructor ratings and real life experience with the MSDT Internship. This extra internship after the IDC helps bridge the gap between the classroom and the real world, giving you the chance to assist experienced instructors, gaining valuable experience and your first certifications. We guarantee you can gain more than 25 certificaitons. You will leave an experienced instructor.
PADI IDC Staff Instructor course
- IDC Staff Instructor is the step after MSDT and a prerequisite for Master Instructor and Course Director. This will allow you to assist IDCs and to teach Assistant Instructor courses.
Dive Resort Management Course
- Expand your job opportunities with a dive resort management course with Mark Soworka. Combine this course with dive instructor internships and MSDT. This will look at business management, partenring with PADI, marketing, staffing and equipment and compressor maintenance. Valuable skills to help you continue yoru career as a dive instructor.
PADI Master Instructor & Course Director Preparation
- Take your career a step further under the expert guidance of PADI Course Director Mark Soworka. With us you can accumulate all the experience and skills needed for Master Instructor and Course Director applications.
Marine Ecology Programs on Koh Tao and Koh Phangan, Thailand
- Completing a research diver internship will add to your Dive Instructor Internship making you a Dive instructor with a great understanding of the marine environment. This will really add to your dive briefings, look great on your diving resume and allow you teach environmentally aware divers.
Underwater Videography Internship on Koh Tao, Thailand
- Many dive shops and live-aboards employ underwater videographers to film their divers. Completing an underwater videography internship with us on Koh Tao in conjunction with your Dive Instructor internship opens up loads of employment opportunities. Our underwater videography team run comprehensive video internships with real work opportunities.
Diving Live-Aboard Internship on Koh Tao, Thailand
- LIve-aboard diving is a popular part of the dive industry, reaching some of the most exotic locations in the world. Adding a live-aboard internship to your Dive Careers Dive Instructor course gives you the skills of conducting live-aboard dive trips and improves your resume when looking for work in those exotice dive live-aboard locations around the world.
Apnea Diving Courses on Koh Tao, Thailand
- Apnea, breath hold diving, is a fascinating sport. Our Apnea diving packages can be added to Dive Careers divemaster to develop well rounded dive professionals that can teach apnea diving skills as well as scuba, or simply to pursue an interest in seeing how long and how deep you can hold your breath.
Muay Thai Training on Koh Tao, Thailand
- Muay Thai boxing is a great way to stay fit and experience Thai culture first hand. Mark, as a former owner of the Koh Tao Muay Thai Stadium and Training Camp, can organise boxing training right through to Muay Thai Instructor.
If not sure about what level diver you are now Check out A SHORT SUMMARY OF PADI DIVE COURSES in Dive Careers Dive Instructor Internships on Koh Tao, Thailand
Our IDC Schedule is the basis of our IE pass guarantee. We know, from experience, that it creates confident and competent dive instructors not just for the instructor exam, but also with real world skills for work in the dive industry.
The IDC schedule also incorporates Master Scuba Diver Trainer and Speciality Instructor courses. We were the first in the world to offer a MSDT course including, at minimum, your first 25 certifications under supervision of experienced instructors. There is no better way to bridge the gap from the classroom of an IDC to the real world. The MSDT course has been a springboard for many into successful careers in the dive industry, developing that initial experience that can look so good on a resume.
IDC Day 1
9.00am IDC Orientation – Bring certification, 2 photos cards and medical
10.00am Divemaster Conducted Programmes –Start Diving, Keep Diving, Risk Management
Bring Instructor Manual
2.00pm Decompression Theory Bring IDC Booklet and DM Exam, table and e-RDPml
IDC Day 2
9.00am Skill Circuit - Pool
1.00pm Physics Bring IDC Booklet and DM Exam and calculator
3.00pm Equipment - Bring IDC Booklet and DM Exam
IDC Day 3
1.00pm Physiology/Oxygen Provider – optional - included free of charge for Dive Careers Internships
4.00pm VDO Internship presentation
IDC Day 4
9.00am Marine Resource Management and Reef Ecology Introduction to basic Reef Ecology and Reef Management Practices
1.30pm IDC Begins – complete all paperwork
Theory Exams – Bring calculator, e-RDPml, Workbook
GS&P Exam –Workbook, Instructor Manual
Homework- Review VDO and Workbook for Academic and Confined Presentation
IDC Day 5
8.30am Teaching Confined – IDC - Bring confined slates
BV Pool - Confined Presentation #P1
1.00pm Learning & Instruction – Review Knowledge Review
Teaching Academic Presentations
Knowledge Development Presentation #1
IDC Day 6
9.00am General Standards and Procedures Exam #A
Confined Open Water Presentation #2
2.00pm General Standards and Procedures
Review Knowledge Review Workbook
Conducting Open Water Training Dives
Prepare Open Water Presentation 1 & 2 – Bring Open water slates
IDC Day 7
9.00am PADI Scuba Diver & Open Water Diver Course
Review Knowledge Review Workbook
Knowledge Development Presentation # 2 – Open Water
1.00pm Open Water Presentations 1 & 2 – BV Boat
Theory Exam # 1 Homework
IDC Day 8
9.00am Rescue Diver Review Knowledge Review Workbook– Bring Rescue Slates
Rescue Confined Presentation #3
1.00pm Adventures in Diving and Knot Review - Knowledge Review -Prepare Adventure Diver Open water presentation
Specialty Diver Courses
Review Knowledge Review Workbook
GS&P Exam #B
IDC Day 9
7.30am Rescue and Adventure Diver Open Water Presentations – #3 & #4 BV Boat -
1.00pm Business of Diving, Marketing and pricing Workshop
Review Knowledge Review Workbook
Theory Exams #2
Bring calculator, e-RDPml
Theory Exam #3 and GS&P #C Homework
7.00pm BBQ & Beers
IDC Day 10 Remedial Day Don’t Forget Theory Exam #3 and GS&P #C Homework
IDC Day 11
9.00am Emergency First Response & O2 Provider Instructor Rescue Diver Knowledge Development Presentation #3
IDC Day 12
9.00am Divemaster Course
Review Knowledge Review Workbook & prepare divemaster confined presentation
Divemaster Confined Presentation #4 – BV Pool
Divemaster Knowledge Development Presentation #4
GS&P Exam #4
IDC Day 13
9.00am MOCK IE
Theory Exams and GS&P Exam
Bring calculator, e-RDPml, Workbook, Instructor Manual
1.00pm Presentations in Open Water – BV Boat
IDC Day 14
9.00am Knowledge Development Presentation
Confined Water Presentation and Skill Demonstrations
PADI I.E. Day 15-17
Congratulations on the IE and enjoy the party
MSDT Day 19
1.00pm MSDT Nitrox and Deep 2.00pm Nitrox Theory
MSDT Day 20
7.30am BV Boat Dive 1 and 2: Nitrox Dive/Deep Dive Scenario
4.00pm MSDT Photo and Naturalist
MSDT Day 21
7.30am BV Boat Underwater Naturalist Dive and Photo
4.00pm MSDT Navigation & Search and Recovery
MSDT Day 22
Assist with courses
12.30pm BV Boa tDive 1: Navigation Workshop Dive 2: Mapping Dive
MSDT Day 23
Morning Assist with courses
12.30pm BV Boat Search and Recovery Workshop
MSDT Day 24
9.00am Intro to Tec
Interested to see if you would like Tec diving? Discover Tec from tec diving boat.
MSDT Day 25 Videography MSDT course
Get a taste of working as a professional videographer
Choose the IDC with Experience.
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