Course or Training
Benefits or Features
Take the next step in your career and complete the SDI Open Water Instructor Course. This challenging course will provide you with the skills to safely teach people to enjoy the underwater realm and experience the wonder and amazement which caused us to fall in love with it.
Technical Description
The SDI Instructor course is designed to teach current divemasters or assistant instructors the knowledge to safely function as an open water scuba instructor. This program is divided into two sections, an instructor development course (IDC) and an instructor evaluation course (IEC).
What will I be learning
1. SDI Standards and Procedures
2. History of SDI
3. Products and Procedures
4. Liability and insurance
5. Filling out an accident report
6. Methods of Instruction
7. Successfully Selling Scuba
8. Instructor Ethics
9. Physics and Physiology of Diving
SDI offers the following support materials:
1. SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Instructor Guide
2. SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Manual
3. SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Video
4. SDI Student Registration Form
5. SDI Instructor Evaluation Forms
6. SDI Instructor Written exam, or online equivalent
7. SDI Dive Leader Training Record
8. SDI Confined Water / Open Water Teaching slates
9. SDI Student Skills check-off slate
Before I start
1. Minimum age 18
2. Certified diver for a minimum of 6 months
3. Provide proof of 100 logged dives completed in a number of different environments with varying depths
4. Be certified as a SDI Divemaster, SDI Assistant Instructor, or equivalent.
5. Provide proof of current CPR, first aid and oxygen provider*, where local law permits
* Note: SDI CPROX, CPR1st or CPROX1stAED courses may be combined with the IDC program by qualified instructors
What do I need
1. Mask, fins and snorkel
2. Buoyancy compensator device (BCD) with a low-pressure power inflator
3. Regulator with submersible pressure gauge
4. Alternate air sources
5. Weight system
6. Personal dive computer
7. Exposure suit adequate for the training conditions
8. Compressed gas cylinder
9. Compass
10. Knife and rescue signal
11. A dive flag must be carried in accordance with local laws or regulations for all open water locations
What will I be doing
Required Skills for the IDC
Required Skill Performance for IDC, the student must:
1. Present a minimum of
- Two classroom presentations
- Two lessons in confined water
- Two lessons in open water
2. Show preparation, planning and control in
- Dive management
- Diving activities
3. Perform, to demonstration quality, one complete rescue scenario
4. Perform a 10 minute survival-float, without the use of swimming aids
5. 400 metre swim on the surface, non-stop, any stroke, without the use of swimming aids, in less than 10 minutes; swim goggles permitted
6. 800 metre swim with mask, snorkel, and fins non-stop without the use of arms in less than 17 minutes
7. Bring a diver, simulating unconsciousness, up from depth, not greater than 6 metres / 20 feet; at the surface swim them 100 metres in less than 4 minutes
Pool/ confined water
1. Candidates must perform , to demonstration quality, all skills listed in the SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Course
2. Pool/confined water problem solving
Open Water
1. In open water candidates must perform, to demonstration quality, all skills listed in the SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Course
2. Open water problem solving
Required Skills for the IEC
1. Present a minimum of
- One classroom presentation, minimum time 15 minutes in duration
- One full lesson in confined water
- One full lesson in open water
2. The evaluating instructor trainer must verify all required subjects were covered and skills were performed
