Welcome to the IDC
(Instructor Development Course) blog!
My name is Alice and I am a newly certified
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor. On this page, I will share my experiences starting from my studying for my Instructor course, to my experiences as a new PADI Instructor.
Over 11 months ago I started my internship at
Dive and Sea Tenerife. I came to Tenerife as a non-diver, looking for a new adventure.
In 8 weeks i managed to complete;
PADI Open Water Diver
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
PADI Rescue Diver
PADI Master Scuba Diver
PADI Specialties
PADI Divemaster
After my
internship, going back to the cold Holland where diving wasn’t an option (it’s cold!) for me, didn’t really appeal to me. So I stayed on for an additional 5 weeks to gain some more experience. The thing I had to work on most was navigation.. I seemed to end up in places I didn’t intent to go to more than just a few times..
After my 5 extra weeks, I was finally able to lead dives without getting lost, I gained a lot more diving experience (I went from just over 60 to 101 logged dives!!) and I had also completed my PADI Discover Scuba Diver Leader internship.
After my extended internship, I had been back to Holland for only a couple of weeks before I got a job offer from
Dive and Sea Tenerife, which was more than I ever dreamed of! So within a very short period of time, I was back in the lovely Tenerife and started working as a
Divemaster!
If you would like to read about the experiences of our Divemaster interns, check out our Divemaster internship blog's;
In English
Or Dutch
In the last months, I have gained so much more experience with diving, customers, DSD’s, assisting with courses, all the other work behind the scenes that diving brings, I became a
PADI Assistant Instructor and last but not least; a
PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor!
I hope you will enjoy reading about my adventures, and I hope to give everyone who might be interested in doing the Instructor course a clear insight about what it is like!
Love, Alice
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