Today it is Tuesday morning and we have been on the Instructor Development Course (PADI IDC) since last week and this is hard work!! We are slowly getting better and mastering different areas, but none of us are 100% confident because all it takes is one oversight and we won't pass our Instructor Examination (IE). The IDC is preparation for the IE and contains Physics, Logistics, Skills and Environment, PADI Standards and Procedures, Safety, Professionalism, Organisation skills, Teaching, Confined Water Diving, PADI Courses, Rescue skills, Equipment knowledge, Bubblemaker, Physiology, Divemaster tasks, Deep Diving, Risk, Open Water Diving, Values, Briefing, Debriefing, demonstration in/on/out of the water, demo on-site/off-site and all of these in all possible combinations! For the moment it is 24hrs of IDC/IE discussions, BUT we are learning loads and we WILL pass our IE and
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