The Dive Gurus offers Instructor training from basic Open Water Scuba Instructor to full Trimix Technical Instructor. Our courses are aimed to make a vocation and career out of the dive industry. 

Our classes are deliberately small and designed to ensure you can confidently teach and thrive in the dive industry from day one. 

If you like people, have a passion for scuba diving, and want an extraordinary life – become a PADI Instructor. Teaching scuba diving allows you to share your love of the aquatic world with others while doing what you enjoy – being in, around and under water. PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors and PADI Assistant Instructors are the most sought-after dive professionals around the world because they’ve completed the program that sets the standard for training dive professionals. You earn a PADI Instructor rating through hard work and commitment, but you’re rewarded with a job that lets you share incredible underwater adventures with others – transforming their lives for the better and enriching yours.

Prior to attending the first day of your PADI Instructor Development course. You must complete the following: 

1. Prove Divemaster status with minimum of 100 logged Dive
2. Complete PADI IDC Online elearning & Dive Theory
3. Provide an in date diver medical signed by a doctor
4. Complete PADI Instructor Application
5. Have your own Dive equipment
6. Access to PADI Pro website and books/elearning materials from Open Water to DM

Welcome and Introduction
Learning, Instruction and the PADI System
General Standards and Procedures
Afternoon
Marketing Diving
Start Diving
Risk Management 

Developing Knowledge Development Presentations

Standards & Procedures Exams
Dive Theory Exams 
Dive Theory Workshop

Knowledge Development Presentations

How to conduct Confined Water Teaching

Risk Management and Licensing Workshop

Skill Development Workshop
Confined Water Training Workshop
800 m/y swim

Knowledge Development Presentation
Adventures in Diving Program
Rescue Diver Course
Afternoon
Divemaster Course
Open Water Diver Course Scheduling and Set Up Workshop

 Open Water Training Workshop

 Rescue Diver Exercise 

 Sales Techniques Workshop
Course Close

Covering Exams & Preparation

EFR courses follow the protocols and procedures developed by ILCOR (the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation). ILCOR members include: the American Heart Association (AHA), European Resuscitation Council (ERC), Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC), New Zealand Resuscitation Council (NZRC), Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (HSFC), Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa (RCSA), Inter American Heart Foundation (IAHF), Resuscitation Council of Asia.  

Emergency First Response courses have widespread international acceptance including:

• The American Council on Exercise (ACE) 
• National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM)
• The Health and Safety Executive (Great Britain) and (Northern Ireland) for the purposes of first aid in the workplace
• International scouting organizations (Girl Scouts USA, Scouts UK, etc.)
• International Yacht Training
• The United States Coast Guard (USCG) for a merchant mariner license
• Australia Council for Teaching Swimming and Water Safety (AUSTSWIM)