Are you a professional Divemaster looking to become a Scuba Diving Instructor in 2021? The great news is that the 2021 Instructor training schedule with Industry Leading Platinum PADI Course Director Holly Macleod is now available.

The great thing is that taking the PADI Scuba Diving Instructor Development Course (IDC) with Platinum PADI Course Director Holly Macleod presents professional Divemaster’s with a number of benefits which would usually be unavailable elsewhere.

Holly offers a wealth of direct industry experience which has been deliberately built into the program. The aim is to provide real life experience based examples of ways in which solutions can be found to typical logistical training barriers, and dive activities can be conducted as efficiently as possible. All whilst providing the best possible experiences to future students.

Having worked within the recreational diving industry for nearly 18 years in a variety of worldwide diving destinations including destinations including Honduras, Thailand, Australia, UK, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore, Holly has experienced a wide range of situational and logistical training situations. Having issued well over 3000 Instructor level PADI certifications in the Gili Islands alone whilst achieving the PADI Platinum and Elite 300 Awards for the past 8 years consecutively, Holly knows exactly what the industry looks for in new instructors. Conversely Holly also knows what instructors will expect from the industry within certain job roles and in certain geographical areas. Of course the program fulfils the standard PADI IDC Curriculum, but also includes a number of additional components based on personal experiences.

There are 9 opportunities to take the program in 2021 

these are scheduled throughout the year….

Since the 2019 PADI IDC updates certain components have been moved to elearning topics that are designed to support classroom based sessions. The program with Holly then reviews these topics and explains them in context to real life personal experiences. Meaning that basically the candidate participates in the online portion before going on to discuss the topic and further relate it to real life situational examples. A great way for candidates to fully explore and understand the intentions of the online portions of the program.

Practical workshops include the Open Water course, Continuing Education programs and Rescue Diver and are again expanded to take into account personal experience and provide options in terms of overcoming typical logistical, environmental and situational training obstacles. Although with the new PADI IDC curriculum candidates need to be fully exposed to continuing education and Rescue Diver Skills, this can be done in a number of ways. This could be classroom based, workshop based, confined based or within open water. Rather than just choose one of these options Holly will use all of the options available. For example the entire range of Rescue Diver skills and scenario’s will be discussed in the classroom, practiced in confined and mastered in Open Water. Likewise with continuing education programs, although there is no real requirement for confined water. Another example of this is management of the Deep Dive Scenario. For the Deep Dive workshop with Holly candidates will review the whole procedure including assessment criteria and then go on to conduct the entire activity in a roleplay situation. Candidates will be presented with typical referral students as generally encountered within dive shops and will then be required to screen students and organize the activity accordingly. It will then be up to the Instructor to conduct the necessary student assessments before conducting the entire dive. The dive will need to incorporate the required performance requirements, whilst taking into account the results of screening students and making the activity as fun as possible.

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Another added benefit to candidates is that Holly will discuss and analyse standards, procedures and regulations beyond the PADI System. Although candidates are required to learn the relevant PADI standards for the programs they will teach, there is no requirement to go beyond this. During the program with Holly, candidates will discuss the wider requirements laid out by the WRSTC (World Recreational Scuba Training Council) and explore international standards and local legislative requirements. Candidates will explore recommendations laid out by international and regional standards such as ISO/EN/BS/DIN and those local legislative guidelines required in certain areas and discuss how each one can work together to provide a safe, fun and educational all round experience.

An additional activity is a group based organisational planning workshop whereby candidates working in small groups are provided with a location and a set of logistical parameters to work with along with a specific activity to plan and conduct. The great thing is that all locations and parameters are based on places Holly has worked and situations previously experienced. Candidates will work together brain storming ideas and overcoming logistical, environmental and situational obstacles. These will then be discussed within the larger group and related to real life situations. This particular workshop is designed to be fun and explore the approach of overcoming problems by working as a team.

There are countless other additional components within the program offered on the PADI IDC Indonesia Program. All are based on real life experience and all are designed to provide candidates with the skills, knowledge and confidence to be successful within this exciting and dynamic career.

Finding out more about the program is easy. Simply contact Industry Leading Platinum PADI Course Director Holly Macleod for more details. In the meantime potential candidates can check out the latest news and updates on Instagram by checking out the PADI IDC Indonesia Profile. To see first-hand experiences of previous instructor candidates the PADI IDC Gili Islands TripAdvisor Page proves to be a great resource.

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