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After completing your PADI scuba Instructor course the dive industry is like any other in terms of competitiveness for employment. After the PADI IDC, instructors often find the challenge once passing their Instructor Examination is in securing suitable employment. At Utila Dive Centre our staff, with their unmatched extensive network of contacts in the region and worldwide (10 years of unrivaled Instructor courses), will assist you to find employment with their placement service, but to facilitate your chances of gaining employment as a PADI Instructor, give yourself the best possible head start by enrolling in our ‘Premium Pro Plus’ program.  Our ‘Premium Pro Plus’ program includes the PADI Instructor Development Course, Emergency First Response Instructor and Master Scuba Diver Trainer preparation program.

New for 2010 Online learning option in the IDC

For candidates who are already certified as PADI Divemaster prior to arriving on Utila for your IDC there have been changes to the curriculum, that from January 2010, now allow you to;

1)    Study and pre-assess your dive theory online.

2)    Study 9 of the course presentations online which can be used to save time from the course and start 3 days later than our ‘Live delivery’ IDC with the start date on the Saturday evening at 5pm.  The course will then end one week later on the Sunday (with EFR Instructor course) and then a day’s fun diving on Monday prior to the IE on the Tuesday/Wednesday.  This takes just 13 days for the complete Instructor course, EFR Instructor and 2 day PADI Exams, and even less if you arrive on Utila already certified as a PADI Assistant Instructor.

There is an additional charge for this each of these options, that deliver convenience and value enhancement to the IDC, and this is paid to PADI.  Please contact us for more information to register for this option and read more below on our 'Premium Pro Plus' program.

Our ‘Premium Pro Plus’ program will train you beyond a regular PADI ‘Open Water Scuba Instructor’ and after the IDC is completed and the examinations passed we will train you as an ‘Emergency First Response’ Instructor and a ‘Master Scuba Diver Trainer’ and allow you to intern with our full time Instructors at the Utila Dive Centre and Cross Creek Dive Centre on Utila, so what we taught you during the PADI IDC you will get to put into practice under the watchful eyes of our seasoned professional staff.


The Emergency First Response Instructor course takes 1 ½ days and trains you to become a competent 1st Aid/CPR Instructor with specific skills that focus on ‘Care for Children’.  The EFR Instructor rating is essential in order for you to certify PADI Rescue Divers, as prior to Module 2 of the Rescue course all candidates have to have completed a sanctioned program in 1st Aid/CPR within the last 24 months.  This training will also benefit you outside of the dive industry and you can offer formal 1st Aid/CPR training to family, friends and also in the UK, USA and Australia the EFR program can be used to meet 1st Aid in the workplace requirements.


The ‘Emergency First Response’ Instructor course will be held immediately after the PADI Instructor Examinations (well we give you 1 day to recover form Utila’s infamous IE party), then we will start with the MSDT program, this will train you in 5 PADI Specialty Instructor ratings and no other facility or Course Director in Central America can offer such an extensive range of continuing education programs, choose from;


Specialty Inst. Course
Enriched Air
Gas Blender Nitrox and Trimix
Wreck
Deep
Night
Naturalist
Photography
Search & Recovery
Dolphin Rebreather
Equipment
Navigation
Videography
Emergency 02 Provider
Diver Propulsion Vehicle


We can also include DAN O2 Instructor in our MSDT program.  After the specialty Instructor training has been completed we have an optional internship (highly recommended) that allows you to assist our qualified and experienced Instructors on their PADI courses and you get the chance to take the ‘micro teaching’ techniques that we taught you during the scuba Instructor course and apply  to actual courses and gain real world experience.  The scuba instructor internship at Utila Dive Centre will allow you to assist on at least 4 PADI courses from Open Water to Rescue, learn how to mentor PADI Divemasters and gain invaluable real world experience and organizational and logistical skills, by the end of our internship you will have issued 25 PADI certifications and can apply for your PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer rating. You will have also earned a valuable reference from our Career Development Center which is good for life, wherever you travel in the world as an Instructor.


Our ‘Premium Pro Plus’ program offers exceptional value and costs just $3525, this represents a saving of $175 off the courses regular individual prices and includes materials.  This package price includes up to 2 months reef tax/insurance, 1 log book, Rescue pocket mask, RDP's (Table and E-RDP ML version), course manuals, unlimited diving and all Instructor course (IDC crew pack) materials, EFR Instructor manual, individual specialty diver manuals for MSDT, Specialty Instructor manual on CD Rom and includes all application fees to PADI of $620 for the Instructor application/exams, $79 for the EFR Instructor application, $63 for the MSDT rating and $46.5 per individual specialty Instructor application (5 applications for MSDT $295.50).


We can also offer a complete set of equipment, in a 'Head to Toe' package with duffle bag, for just $1700 with this package.