PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor Course: 6 days This takes the Assistant Instructor (AI), Instructor with another training organization or person attending a whole IDC program the next step in their PADI Instructor Development. OWSI Candidates joining an Indepth IDC program would attend the only last 6 days. During the OWSI course you will learn more about PADI Standards and the role of media and prescriptive teaching. There will be an Indepth look at the courses which make up the PADI system and how to teach them: Discover Scuba Diving, Scuba Diver, Specialty Diver, Adventure Diver, Advanced Open Water, Rescue Diver, Divemaster and the various diver retention programs as well as important information on teaching children, legal responsibility and risk management and some business principles for YOU - the dive instructor. Requirements for certification include: a minimum passing score in one Prescriptive Teaching Knowledge Development presentation, one Confined Water presentation, one Open Water presentation (2 skills), the PADI skill circuit, the 800m snorkel swim, the Assistant Instructor Standards Exam and an IE Dive Theory preassessment exam. Upon successful completion of this program you will receive authorization to attend the Instructor Examination. REMEMBER: prior to the start of an IDC, AI or OWSI course the candidate must have completed ALL 16 IDC Knowledge Reviews from the "Independent Learning" section of the IDC Candidate Workbook. The PADI Instructor Crossover Course is now the OWSI Course The OWSI course has taken the place of the old IOC / Crossover Course. The OWSI course now allows Instructors already certified with a recreational diving training agency other than PADI to "crossover" to PADI. This is a great way to take advantage of market demands and be able to offer your employers and customers PADI courses and programs. The course comprises of the last 6 days of an Indepth IDC, thus candidates joining an existing IDC program would attend only the final 6 days. back to PADI IDC Instructor Courses

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