TOTAL PACKAGE INSTRUCTOR DEVELOPMENT COURSE (IDC)
Become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor!
Join Bruce Weitzenhoffer, our Gold-Level, PADI CourseDirector, for your TOTAL PACKAGE Instructor Development Course (IDC)! Bruce has extensive cold-water experience, more than 15,000 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:
- PADI IDC Preparation Day
- PADI Assistant Instructor Course
- PADI Open Water Instructor Course
- Emergency First Response Instructor Course
- DAN Diving First Aid (DFA) Provider Course
- DAN Instructor Suite (DFA & BLS & EO2) Course
- ENHANCED PADI Master SCUBA Diver Trainer Preparation (MSDT Prep) Course, that includes a total of EIGHT (8) PADI Specialty Instructor ratings. ALSO includes 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 with inspection and cleaning procedures.
Here at Salem Scuba, we have created a program that includes everything you’ll need to teach the most requested SCUBA and Diver Safety courses, and to be a valuable and diversely trained member of a successful dive shop operation.
This bundled package represents about a 45% savings off the individual course prices.
Course Pricing: $6,500
- Materials & Administrative Fees*: $2,800
- Tuition: $3,700 (payable at first, in-person session)
- Plus:$1,843 Examination, Certification & Processing Fees (payable to PADI)
- *Includes: IDC Crew-Pak; Skill Development Prep Slate; Dive Theory eLearning; EFR Instructor Digital Crew-Pak, DAN eLearning and Slate Pack
Links:
- Total Package Instructor Development Course Overview
- Total Package Instructor Development Course Learning Agreement
- Diver Medical
- Total Package IDC Candidate Information Sheet
SIGN UP TODAY – call: 503-588-3483 and speak with Dea or Charline.
For more information, or with any questions, including future IDC’s that we have scheduled, please contact Bruce@SalemScuba.com. He will promptly respond.
SCHEDULE:
March / April 2025
- All days 8AM–6PM minimum
- IDC Prep Day SUN 16 MAR
- IDC & EFRI & DAN & MSDT:
- THU 20 MAR – SUN 23 MAR
- TUE 25 MAR – FRI 28 MAR
- SUN 30 MAR – WED 02 APR
- PADI Instructor Exam 05 / 06 APR at PADI HQ
September / October 2025
- All days 8AM – 6PM minimum
- IDC Prep DAY SUN 14 SEP
- IDC & EFRI & DAN & MSDT:
- THU 18 SEP – SUN 21 SEP
- TUE 23 SEP – FRI 26 SEP
- SUN 28 SEP – WED 01 OCT
- PADI Instructor Exam 04 / 05 OCT at PADI HQ
DESCRIPTION:
Additionally, we schedule our TOTAL PACKAGE IDC to be both efficient and thorough. To seamlessly synch with the 2-day PADI Instructor Exam (IE) administered by PADI Staff and typically scheduled for the weekend immediately following the completion of our Course. This timeline reinforces mastery retention of knowledge and skills to best prepare you for success at the IE and when teaching. This Program truly sets you up to broadly teach the most requested core and specialty SCUBA and safety courses.