Description
Become a 'Working Scuba Dive Professional'
The ultimate step in scuba diving. Learn how to teach others to scuba dive with extensive on-the-job work experience from managing dive operations to conducting PADI diving courses. Our training will provide you with everything you need to be a diving educator, and all the experience and references for scuba diving career.
Dive The Gap
We are a UK limited company working in partnership with a PADI 5-Star Instructor Development Resort based on the Red Sea. All our scuba diving programmes take place in Dahab, South Sinai, Egypt and all our staff are highly qualified British PADI professionals.
Become a 'Working Scuba Dive Professional'
Our Instructor Training programme can be customised to take you from open water level or whatever certification you hold.
Refresh Dive
A morning spent refreshing and revising your diving technique, in and out of the water, along with a dive across the house reef
PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course
5 Adventure dives all around the sites of Dahab. Focusing on additional training for deep diving, buoyancy control and navigation.
Emergency First Response
Primary and Secondary care course looking in depth at saving lives, emergency CPR, first aid whilst managing and controlling a scene.
PADI Rescue Course
3 days learning the skills to avoid, aid, and control diving accidents to save lives. Scenarios range from panicked divers to unconscious divers.
8 Guided Recreational Dives
8 dives around the Sinai with other divers and a professional, to see the finest reefs in the world before your internship starts.
Divemaster Internship
Take on the role of a junior employee in the company, aiding the smooth flow of dive operations whilst gaining invaluable experience.
Diving Skills Module
With your instructor, learn how to demonstrate diving skills and technique to divers in training.
Assisting with Student Divers in Training (Internship)
Assist an instructor in the teaching of 3 PADI courses, including a PADI Open Water Course and a PADI Rescue course.
Supervising and Guiding Certified Divers (Internship)
Under instructor supervision you will guide a group of divers taking on the responsibility of controlling a group.
On-Site Dive Management (Internship)
Learn hands on management abilities to give dive briefing and control groups of divers.
Sales and Customer Relations (Internship)
Deal with equipment allocation, customer that walk in, and learn how the diving industry works.
Rescue Assessment
A full assessment of your ability to respond effectively to a diving emergency and control the situation.
Effective Response to Stress
A test to evaluate your ability to deal with a stressful situation whilst underwater.
Mapping Project
Research and evaluate one of the house reefs, to draw an accurate map that could be used for a briefing. (aids your ability to guide unfamiliar areas).
Simulated Guided Dive
Where necessary, you will conduct a guided dive for the staff, who will throw a handful of problems at you along the way.
Water skills
400m Swim,
Unlimited Diving
When not involved in a course you can get in the water with other candidates anytime, as well as tagging along on dive trips going out everywhere.
Divemaster Work Experience
2 - weeks as part of the team getting hands on experience in a functioning dive operation whilst having a chance to study for the IDC
Emergency FIrst Response :: Care for Children
Primary and Secondary care, including CPR, Rescue Breathing and problem management for situations with injured children and infants.
Emergency FIrst Response Instructor
Learn the techniques to teach others Emergency First Response primary and secondary care.
Instructor Development Course :: Prep
2 days to go through all materials associated with the IDC and a chance to test and evaluate your theory and understanding
Instructor Development Course :: Assistant Instructor
An overview of the dive industry, a look at the PADI system of diver education and how to teach PADI scuba diving courses.
Teaching Confined and Open Water Lessons
From developing a good briefing to controlling a class underwater in simulated lessons where you are the instructor.
Developing a Good Classroom Presentation
A day looking at the best ways at teaching theory to students and a unique opportunity to hear all of our different ways of teaching.
Instructor Development Course :: Open Water Scuba Instructor
Time spent looking at how to teach the PADI Scuba Diver and PADI Open Water Diver courses in the most effective manner.
Controlled Emergency Swimming Ascent (CESA) Workshop
CESA is one of the most difficult skills to teach as an instructor. We spend time going through it together step by step, in and out of the water.
Teaching the Recreational Dive Planner
Another area that students can find difficult and can be a nightmare as an instructor. We break down into its simplest method possible.
Teaching PADI Rescue and PADI Divemaster Courses
A look at teaching some of the more professional level course with in water exercises where you are the instructor and we are your students.
Rescue Workshop
A look at getting your Rescue Skills absolutely top notch.
Mock Exams
A mock exam day that will be just like your Instructor Exams with in water exercises, out water presentations and some multiple choice exams.
Instructor Examinations (IE)
2 days where the people from PADI International (UK) come down to Dahab and assess you on everything!
Master Scuba Diver Trainer :: Prep
3 more days with us spent giving you everything you need to teach 5 distinctive PADI specialities.
Ras Mohammed Underwater National Park
A dive at Ras Mohammed underwater national park to see enormous quantities of underwater life as well as rare and exotic fish life.
Camel Dive Safari
Head out by camel to a unique diving area inaccessible by any other means for 2 dives in areas almost untouched by man.
Mount Sinai and St. Katherine's Monastery
An overnight trip to the mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments. See a beautiful sunrise and explore an ancient monastery.
Shared Room Accommodation
Air conditioned accommodation with other guests. Rooms cleaned daily, include breakfast and have a sea or pool view. (upgrades to hotel rooms available).
PADI Materials and PADI Fees
All materials and fees are included in this programme, except PADI professional level fees (see the General Info tab for more information).
Airport Transfers (private mini busses)
2 Airport Transfers (private mini busses) to pick you up from the airport and take you back again at the end of your trip.
Customise this programme online to meet your preferences and current level of experience