PADI MSDT + PADI
Staff Instructor Internships
In
order to be successful in furthering your qualifications, it is
important you look to gain continued education. Through Scuba Trip and Mermaid, there is an
IDC (Instructor Development Course) and IE (Instructor Examination)
monthly, and its a great place to further your qualifications
conveniently.
To be trained as a PADI diving instructor is superb and if your
training was through a dive internship, certainly one of ours, then you
will find your dive skills and knowledge very well honed ready for a
dive career.
Some
new dive professionals would rather have some experience behind them
for confidence prior to approaching possible dive employers for scuba
work. They have the scuba diving instructor license but now they feel
that they are at the bottom of the list of instructors out there as
they have yet to teach a dive course. This is not always the case as
many of the new diving instructors can be more focused on everything in
front of them that they need to teach. Many new dive instructors with
no experience will blow you away as their control and knowledge is all
100% fresh and they are really trying to prove something to both
themselves and the dive students.
Whilst
it is true that you can get work directly from the intership with
confidence, some do prefer to have real life dive teaching experience
under their belts. Please note that the Resort Operations Specialist
(ROS) can be added to either the MSDT or the STAFF packages.
At
Scuba
Trip, we use the superb PADI system and
have the PADI MSDT
(Master Scuba Diver Trainer) starter program, the MSDT Diving Life
Internship and the Staff Instructor programs as internships - please
see below for further information:
Note:
All programs can
be upgraded to the next level at no additional charge.
The
"Diving
Life" Specialty Instructor (MSDT Starter) Package
PADI
Instructors enrolling in
this option will receive a CD-ROM including 23 PADI speciality
instructor outlines. Instructors will present lectures to a PADI
Speciality Instructor Trainer and field questions pertaining to those
specialities. The course is designed to prepare you to teach at least 5
PADI speciality courses of your choice (extra speciality ratings may be
available on request for a smal fee).
Some
goals you will accomplish:
-
Present speciality course lectures to a PADI Course Director
(Speciality IT), and discuss standards and marketing for 5 PADI
Speciality Diver Courses.
-
Achieve 5 PADI Speciality Instructor ratings of your choice
Cost:
20,000
Thai baht (in addition to any IDC package fee)
Includes:
PADI
specialiity CD ROM and all PADI fees for the 5 speciality instructor
courses.
The
PADI
Master Scuba Diver Trainer Certification
The
PADI Master Scuba Diver
Trainer rating is awarded to a PADI diving instructor that can teach a
minimum of 5 PADI speciality courses and has experience in teaching 25
students dive courses. To hold this qualification demonstrates to a
dive employer that you have good experience in teaching diving and also
can teach a range of speciality diver courses. This makes a dive centre
more likely to offer you a dive job.
If
you are looking at entering the realm of technical dive instruction
then the MSDT will be useful. Many technical agencies require the
certificatoin level for MSDT to be achieved prior to a technical
instructor level being held. DSAT require you to be an MSDT if you are
looking at becoming an instructor in DSAT Tec Deep or the DSAT Tri-mix
courses. Technical dive jobs require the MSDT rating.
The
"Diving Life" MSDT Internship:
PADI
Instructors enrolling in this option will be taken on as part of the
Mermaids Dive Centre staff for a period of 2 months after the IE and
post-IE courses have been completed. During this time you will have
access to all the benefits of a member of Mermaids instructor team.
Some goals you will be able to accomplish:
-
Record at least 25 PADI teaching certification
-
Achieve 5 PADI speciality instructor ratings
-
MSDT or Master Scuba Diver Trainer certification in FULL
-
100+ dives for experience and pleasure (unlimited)
-
Add 2 month's diving work experience at a PADI 5 Star CDC to your CV!
Cost:
79,800
Thai baht (in addition to any IDC package fee)
Includes:
2
months lodgings, 5 PADI speciality instructor outlines and ALL PADI
fees.
The PADI Staff Instructor
Certification
PADI
IDC staff instructors are PADI instructors moving towards instructor
level training or teaching the instructor development course (IDC). IDC
statt instructors can independently train and certify PADI assistant
instructors as well as help train PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors. At
this level you are beginning to direct instructors on how to instruct.
The "Diving Life" IDC Staff
Internship / Traineeship.
PADI
Instructors enrolling in this program will be taken on as part of the
Mermaid's staff for a period of 3 months aftre the IE and post=IE
courses have been completed. During this time you will have access to
all the benefits of a member Mermaid's instructor team. Some goals you
will be able to accomplish:
-
Record at least 25 PADI certifications
-
Achieve 5 PADI speciality instructor ratings
-
Achieve the PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) rating (as above).
-
Achieve the PADI ICD staff rating
-
150+ dives for experience and pleasure (unlimited)
-
Add 3 month's scuba work experience at a PADI 5 star CDC to your diving
CV
Cost:
119,800
Thai baht (in addition to any IDC package fee). Individual cost of
64,000 Thai baht if not taking the MSDT also.
Includes:
3 months lodgings, 5
PADI speciality instructor outlines, PADI C/W and O/W evaluation slates
and all PADI fees for specialities, MSDT and IDC staff ratings.
Notes:
- Internship fees must
be paid in full before the start of the PADI IDC
- Interns are working
on a non-salaried, work for experience basis ONLY
- The PADI course
director manual is included
- The next professional
diver level is the PADI Master Instructor Rating
For
more information please
email us at:info@scuba-trip.co.uk
