the end – or the beginning?
First off, let’s ask ourselves a simple question, When you first passed your Driving Test. Were you a confident experienced Driver?
The answer, clearly is NO. Actually, in some ways, the day that you passed your Driving Test was the day that you started to learn!
When we start to apply the same question to virtually any other form of training, we find that people develop in two stages. First there is LEARNING and then comes EXPERIENCE.
In nearly everything in Life, the Experience can only follow basic Learning.
the end or beginning for these new divers?
This is exactly the same process with all Diving Courses.
An Open Water course lasts approximately 4 or 5 full days. Once someone has completed the course, then the Experience segment follows. Experience can only follow the learning. Professional PADI Instructors help with this Experience by offering courses relevant to the wants and needs of the Student Diver.
When we follow this pattern through all PADI Courses, we find that the basic human path to success is repeated time and time again. At the top of the ladder is a PADI Instructor Development Course. The IDC Course generally lasts approximately 9 days, and leads to a PADI Instructor Exam.
Do you think that people who complete a PADI IE following a 9 day course are EXPERIENCED? NO of course not! that’s not the way that people learn!! The Experience segment starts as soon as the New PADI Instructor begins put the new knowledge into practice. The professional Dive Centres help this Experience by “Team Teaching” or allowing the new Instructor to “Shadow” experienced Instructors.
Are these new DMs Experienced?
The PADI Divemaster Course is no different.
PADI Recommends that the Divemaster course is made up of 50 hours of tuition. 50 hours! If we followed the same pattern of development that we know works so well, then a professional DM course (similar to a PADI IDC) would take roughly 6 days. Once all of the wonderful new information, knowledge and skills were learnt, then the Experience stage should start.
The professional Dive Centres and Instructors help with this experience by gently allowing newly qualified DMs to gain confidence one step at a time by giving them structured assignments of helping with training and supervising certified divers.
Of course there are some Dive Centres and Instructors that follow this natural structure. But
So often I see people on my IDCs who have suffered many many months of a DM course, but have had nowhere near 50 hours of tuition. They are very poorly prepared for their PADI IDC and are sadly lacking in both Learning and Experience.
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professional PADI Divemaster, ready for the modern world!
How would you like to be taught to become a PADI Divemaster in the UK by a team consisting of a Platinum Course Director and a very experienced PADI Staff Instructor?
And then, once qualified travel to Egypt to develop your new skills by working for 3 weeks as a new DM alongside experienced staff of Emperor Divers, a busy 5 star CDC Centre?
This is a terrific opportunity to get both learning and experience from the very best in our industry. If you are planning on becoming a PADI Instructor one day, then you won’t get better preparation than this!
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