Leave the regular world behind and live on tropical islands and beaches? Spend your days underwater with exotic marine life? Travel the word? Yes!
Become an Professional Diving Instructor and work in an office that covers ¾ of the world. There’s a very high demand for full and part-time Instructors at resorts, dive centers and liveaboards around the world.
Most instructor programs focus only on teaching diving. However, most dive businesses require much more of instructors than merely teaching.
The Instructor Training Course (ITC) prepares you to become an active member of the scuba industry, a successful educator, and a valuable dive business employee. The training includes - at a minimum - the following:
- How successful dive retailers and resorts operate
- Techniques for recruiting, teaching and evaluating students
- Effective techniques for teaching academics, and in the pool and open water
- Legal aspects of teaching
- The benefits of becoming an Diving Instructor
As a result of this extra training - you will possess business knowledge that other candidates don’t. The expanded course content certainly gives you an edge over “teaching only” programs, and makes you a much more valuable, well-rounded SCUBA instructor.
After the Instructor course you can teach…
- The Open Water Diver Course
- The Passport Diver Course
- The Stress & Rescue Course
- Scuba Skills Update
- Try Scuba (Introduction to Scuba)
- Universal Referral Program
As a new instructor, your first few classes might be a little intimidating. The best way to over come this is to find a dive center where you can assist teaching in an established scuba school with experienced instructors. Ideally they will assist with your on your first few courses, and they have a wealth of knowledge to help you progress.
