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SDI Open Water Scuba Diver Instructor
Becoming a scuba instructor with SDI is not just about earning another certification. It is about opening the door to a different way of life — one built around diving, teaching, leadership, travel, and helping others discover the underwater world.
Make the Sea Your Office
Escape the routine and turn your passion for diving into a career doing what you truly love. Instructor training gives you the tools to teach, lead, mentor, and create confident divers.
Work Around the World
Travel, teach, and explore new cultures. As an SDI Instructor, the world can become your classroom, from local lakes to Caribbean reefs and professional dive destinations around the globe.
Build More with SDI
SDI professional training can help expand your teaching opportunities, strengthen your resume, and position you for work in dive centers, training facilities, travel programs, and destination operations.
Start in Texas. Finish in Curaçao. Teach Anywhere.
Through the Mammoth Dive Academy and Elite Diving Curaçao partnership, candidates can begin with structured online preparation and Texas-based support, then complete final in-water instructor development and evaluation in Curaçao.
Questions Before Registering?Important: Price includes IDC/IEC program registration package. Travel, lodging, meals, airfare, and personal expenses are separate unless stated in writing.
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Your SDI Instructor Career Starts Today
Start your SDI Instructor Development Course pathway with structured preparation, Mammoth Dive Academy support, and final in-water development through the Elite Diving Curaçao partnership.
SDI Instructor Course
IDC Development
IEC Evaluation
TX Preparation
CUR Curaçao Week
Easy eLearning
Use SDI eLearning to support academics, standards review, theory, teaching concepts, and preparation.
Safety First, Always
Professional-level training is built around judgment, rescue readiness, student management, and real-world decision-making.
One Dive Family
SDI connects recreational training with TDI technical diving, ERDI public safety diving, and PFI freediving pathways.
Start in Texas. Finish in Curaçao. Teach Anywhere.
Mammoth Dive Academy helps candidates prepare with structure, coaching, and professional expectations. Through the Elite Diving Curaçao partnership, qualified candidates can complete final in-water development and evaluation in a Caribbean dive center environment.
Questions Before Registering?Know Before You Enroll
What Is Included?
Review the program package and travel responsibilities before committing to the SDI IDC and Instructor Evaluation Course pathway.
Included in the Program
- SDI IDC preparation pathway with Mammoth Dive Academy support.
- Online preparation guidance before the Curaçao training week.
- Standards review, academic readiness, and teaching-presentation preparation.
- In-water instructor development during the Curaçao training week.
- Instructor Evaluation Course preparation and professional coaching.
- Candidate mentoring focused on safety, judgment, and real-world teaching ability.
Not Included
- Airfare, airport transfers, local transportation, lodging, meals, and personal travel expenses.
- SDI registration fees, annual professional membership fees, or agency processing fees unless specifically stated in writing.
- Personal scuba equipment, dive computer, exposure protection, or replacement equipment.
- Medical examination costs, passports, travel documents, baggage fees, or optional excursions.
- Additional dives, rentals, boat fees, or activities outside the published IDC and IEC schedule.
Package contents and agency fees are governed by the candidate registration agreement. Confirm the current written package details before purchasing airfare or lodging.
Questions? Let’s Dive In.
SDI Instructor Course Questions
Review the course prerequisites, performance requirements, evaluation process, and instructor outcomes before starting your IDC path.
Who is this course for?
This course is for qualified dive professionals who want to share their love for the underwater world and take the next step into professional scuba instruction.
What are the course prerequisites?
- Minimum age of 18.
- Certified diver for a minimum of 6 months.
- Proof of 100 logged dives in different environments and at varying depths.
- Certified as an SDI Divemaster, SDI Assistant Instructor, or accepted equivalent.
- Current CPR, First Aid, and Oxygen Provider certification where permitted by local law.
CPR, First Aid, and Oxygen Provider courses may be combined with the IDC when taught by appropriately qualified instructors.
What will I learn during the IDC?
- SDI Standards and Procedures.
- History of SDI and International Training.
- Products, registration procedures, yearly renewals, and instructor administration.
- Liability, insurance, risk management, waivers, releases, and accident reporting.
- Methods of instruction, teaching theory, oral communication, and lesson preparation.
- Use of training aids, home study, and knowledge-development tools.
- Course budgeting, recruiting students, scheduling, retail awareness, and professional growth.
- Instructor ethics, diving physics, and physiology.
What performance is required during the IDC?
- Present at least four classroom presentations.
- Present at least four confined-water lessons.
- Present at least four open-water lessons.
- Demonstrate preparation, planning, supervision, and control during diving activities.
- Perform one complete rescue scenario to demonstration quality.
- Complete a 10-minute survival float without swimming aids.
- Complete a non-stop 400-metre surface swim without swimming aids.
- Complete an 800-metre mask, snorkel, and fin swim without using the arms in less than 17 minutes.
- Bring a simulated unconscious diver up from no deeper than 6 metres / 20 feet and tow the diver 100 metres in less than 4 minutes.
What is required during the Instructor Evaluation Course?
- Present one classroom presentation lasting at least 15 minutes.
- Present one complete confined-water lesson.
- Present one complete open-water lesson.
- Demonstrate required subjects and skills to the evaluating Instructor Trainer.
- Successfully complete the SDI IDC and IEC process.
- Demonstrate mature, professional judgment in class planning and execution.
What skills are expected in pool or confined water?
- Perform all SDI Open Water Scuba Diver course skills to demonstration quality.
- Demonstrate confined-water problem solving.
- Show control, positioning, communication, supervision, and student management.
What skills are expected in open water?
- Perform all SDI Open Water Scuba Diver course skills to demonstration quality.
- Demonstrate open-water problem solving.
- Show planning, awareness, supervision, site control, and professional-level judgment.
What can I teach after successful completion?
Upon successful completion and activation of the applicable instructor rating, graduates may teach SDI programs authorized within their active professional rating, including Open Water Scuba Diver, Advanced Adventure Diver, approved specialties, Computer Diver, Rescue Diver, Divemaster, and other eligible SDI courses.
Ready to Start Your Instructor Path?
Seats are limited for this SDI IDC and IEC partnership program. Register when you are ready, or contact Mammoth Dive Academy if you need help confirming your prerequisites before enrolling.
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