Join Dane Durand, our Silver Course Director, and Bruce Weitzenhoffer, our Gold Course Director, for your Instructor Development Course! Both Dane and Bruce have extensive cold water experience, a combined 20,000 dives+ and vast experience teaching and diving all over the world. Interested in living, diving and working in often challenging conditions? Become an instructor in the environment where you’ll teach. Even if you are planning to spend time in the tropics, the skills you learn here, in cold water, will serve you well anywhere in the world!

 

This is a multi-part program:
1. PADI IDC Preparation Day
2. PADI Assistant Instructor Course
3. PADI Open Water Instructor Course
4. Emergency First Response Instructor Course
5. DAN Diving First Aid (DFA) Provider Course
6. DAN Instructor Suite (DFA & BLS & EO2) Course
7. ENHANCED PADI Master SCUBA Diver Trainer Preparation (MSDT Prep) Course which includes a
total of EIGHT PADI Specialty Instructor ratings – ALSO including EAN and EO2 Student Certifications
if you do not already have these.

Additionally, this includes an optional shop internship for practical sales and client communications training, fill station operation, equipment rental & inspection & cleaning procedures.

We have created a program that includes everything that you will need to teach the most requested SCUBA and Diver Safety courses and to be a valuable diversely trained member of a successful dive shop operation. 

Materials & Administrative Fees (payable to Aquarius Dive Shop): $2,709 (plus tax)

     Includes IDC Crew-Pak, Skill Prep Slate, Dive Theory eLearning, EanX and E02 Course, EFR Instructor Crew-Pak, DAN eLearning

Materials (payable to Course Director at first in-person session): $90

     Includes DAN Slate Pack

Tuition (payable to Course Director at first in-person session): $3,450

Tuition (payable to IDC Staff Instructor at IDC Prep Day): $250