Open Water Scuba Instructor

This is it, you’ve made it to the top you are now at the pinnacle of your own Personal Underwater Journey. In a short time you have the opportunity to prove yourself to some of the worlds best diver trainers from PADI itself. At this point you have out performed over 95% of those that initially started their journey at the same time as you, right now you should be feeling incredibly proud of yourself and justifiably so !

So far you have been involved only with our own Scuba + Outdoor Pursuits Centre Training Team, and over time they have become well known and friendly faces too you. Well now its time to go external, you are about to be exposed to a whole new group of diver trainers, from our regular PADI Course Directors right up to the highest levels of PADI Examiners. This is it, your chance to excel is here, lets help you grasp it with both hands…

Your PADI Instructor Development Course is part one of the two stages to becoming a fully qualified PADI Instructor and you will most probably feel by far the hardest. It is designed to fully prepare you, both in knowledge and skills to face the second stage of the process, the PADl Instructor Examination. The examination itself is completely external and run by PADI head office itself, so yes, we really do need you to be ready for this one, both our reputations depend on it.

At this level of your Personal Underwater Journey, your course must be conducted by a very specific and highly qualified instructor. Although it will be based fully at one of our main training facilities in Cannock or Solihull, our regular PADI Courses Directors, Les Taylor or Karen Flannery, will be conducting and managing your PADI Instructor Development Course.

The specific timings of the elements of your course may vary, and will depend very much on the progress of the group as a whole, however we have included a sample schedule. The schedule is generally spread over two consecutive weekends, and will of course comprise a considerable amount of self study preparation work.

OWSI#1 – Industry Overview / Standards & Procedures / Role of Media and Prescriptive Teaching ~ OWSI#2 – Legal and Risk Management / Delivering the Open Water Programme / Teaching the RDP ~ OWSI#3 – Adaptive Teaching / Continuing Education Philosophy / Business Principles / Delivering Adventures in Diving Programme ~ OWSI#4 – Open Water Skills Assesment / Delivery of Training in Open Water ~ OWSI # 5 – Watermanship Skills / Delivering Rescue and Divemaster programmes / Diver Retention.

This is now the true sum of everything you have learned so far, whether is has taken you 12 months or 12 years to get to this level, you are now obviously ready to complete your journey. You are ready to become the one at the top who everyone else admires, and most likely secretly aspires to one day be equal to.

Instructor Exam (IE):- Once you have completed your OWSI programme you will receive, on payment of your registration fee, a PADI Instructor Development Course completion certificate, this will then allow you to proceed to the next and final level, the PADI Instructor Examination. The examination is totally independent of The Scuba + Outdoor Pursuits centre and is organised by PADI International themselves.

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