Cross Current Divers

Open Water Scuba Instructor

Are you looking for something extraordinary? To do something others can only dream of? To help people transform their lives? To open doors you didn't even know existed? All of this, and more, awaits you as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.

The Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program is one of two distinct components of PADI's Instructor Development Course (IDC)-the core of PADI Instructor training. The first portion is the Assistant Instructor course followed by the Open Water Scuba Instructor program.

This is an extensive five (5) day program consisting of fifteen (15) IDC Curriculum Components:

At least two (2) evaluated prescriptive teaching knowledge development presentations

At least two (2) evaluated confined water teaching presentations

At least one (1) integrated (two skills) evaluated open water teaching presentation

Demonstrate competence at performing all dive skills listed on the Skill Evaluation

Instructor Dive Theory Exams

800 /yard/metre mask, snorkel, fin swim

Successfully complete the PADI Divemaster course diver rescue skill in open water

Upon successful completion of the course you will be eligible to receive a PADI IDC Certificate of Completion, qualifying you to attend a PADI Instructor Evaluation (IE) scheduled immediately following all of our IDC’s.

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