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Get a head start – Begin your PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) eLearning now!
Our Next IDC Starts on Mar 05, 2025
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Mactan, Cebu. IE on May 21-22
Take the Next Step in Your Diving Career
Enroll in our PADI Instructor Course in Cebu to transform your passion into a profession. Contact us today to learn more and secure your spot in our upcoming sessions.
Note: Prior to enrolling, ensure you meet the prerequisites, including being a certified diver for at least six months, a certified Divemaster, having a minimum of 100 logged dives, and holding a current medical statement.
Why Choose Our PADI Instructor Course in Cebu?
Embark on a transformative journey with our PADI Instructor Course in Cebu, Philippines. Designed for passionate divers aiming to elevate their skills, this program offers comprehensive training to become a certified PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.
Why Choose Our PADI Instructor Course with Dive Funatics?
- Expert Instruction: Our seasoned Course Directors and IDC Staff Instructors provide personalized mentorship, ensuring you’re well-prepared for a successful diving career.
- Comprehensive Curriculum: The course covers essential topics, including dive theory, teaching methodologies, and practical application, equipping you to confidently lead and instruct.
- Flexible Learning Options: Begin with eLearning at your convenience and transition to in-person sessions in Cebu, balancing flexibility with hands-on experience.
- Additional Certifications: Enhance your credentials with complimentary courses like the Nitrox Specialty Instructor and Emergency First Response Instructor certifications, broadening your teaching scope.
Why Cebu, Philippines?
Cebu is a premier destination for diving enthusiasts, offering:
- Diverse Marine Ecosystems: Explore vibrant coral reefs and diverse marine life, providing an enriching environment for both learning and leisure dives.
- Accessible Dive Sites: With numerous dive spots suitable for various skill levels, Cebu ensures practical training experiences in real-world settings.
- Thriving Diving Community: Join a network of diving professionals and enthusiasts, fostering opportunities for collaboration and continuous learning.
Course Highlights:
- Duration: A thorough 12-day program, with options to arrive earlier for skill refinement.
- Supportive Learning Environment: Benefit from a team dedicated to your success, offering assistance beyond standard hours to address individual needs.
- Inclusive Packages: Enjoy amenities like daily lunches and access to necessary learning materials, ensuring a focused and comfortable training experience.
PADI IDC In Cebu
We are the only English speaking instructor development center in Mactan.
Our IDC Teaching team is composed of 2 Course Directors, a Master Instructor, and a couple of IDC Staff Instructors to support and mentor your PADI professional career.
IDC Teaching Team is more than willing and ready to stay with you even as late as 9:00 in the evening to help you in areas where you need extra attention, therefore, you get more value for what you pay. Our IDC program will make you feel that you got the best value for your money!
IDC Team
We love training our candidates. But most of all, we train our staff to be instructor trainers and become part of our IDC Teaching team too.
Our in-house Divemasters and Divemaster Interns are always eager to help and act as your students as you practice and present your confined and open water teaching presentations.
Hurry, contact us and ask us about our next life changing instructor program now!
IDC Locations
Our IDC Team also runs IDC in other locations within the Philippines. We have schedules in Coron, Boracay, Malapascua and Bohol on top of our 6 regular IDC schedules in Cebu.
IDC Package Inclusion
IDC LEARNING CREW PAK
Get started as early as possible by learning remotely using the interactive and intuitive Instructor Development Materials online, at your own pace and time.
eLearning crewpak is offered at a discounted rate if you do not have one yet.
12 Days of relaxed but thorough schedule
We offer a very thorough and comprehensive IDC in as quickly as 12 days. You may come a week ahead if you wish to brush up on your diving skills before the IDC starts.
FREE Nitrox Specialty Instructor Course
Nitrox Specialty courses sell like hotcakes! Getting certified to teach this specialty offers so you will have more opportunities to teach students, become employable and more versatile. You just have to pay for the application fee directly to PADI.
You must be a Nitrox certified diver to become a Nitrox Instructor.
FREE EFR Instructor Course
Being an EFR Instructor is a requirement for becoming a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI). We offer this for free as part of your IDC with us so you don’t have to save up for this course. You just have to pay the instructor application fee to PADI.
FREE Dive Against Debris Instructor Course
Dive Against Debris Instructor course is a FREE PADI Application fee is an ultimate show and tell of your commitment to the preservation of our ocean, or playground or office.
This particular specialty can be a good adventure dive to offer as part of the AOW Course.
Lunch during IDC
Online/Hybrid Option
Do half of your course online, another half on-site. Saves you a week of accommodation and time.
Never stop learning – Continue your journey as a PADI educator.
Schedule your professional development career counseling and find out how you can join the ranks of the most sought after dive instructor today!
MACTAN IDC Schedule
IDC is scheduled in conjuction with the PADI IE calendar. IDC is conveniently designed to be completed the day before the scheduled Instructor Exam in the area. Note, scheduled IE may be cancelled by PADI without ample notice.
IDC in Mactan with Dive Funatics (Starting May 08)
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IDC in Mactan with Dive Funatics (Starting Jul 06)
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IDC in Mactan with Dive Funatics (Starting Sep 09)
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IDC in Mactan with Dive Funatics (Starting Nov 02)
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IDC in Mactan with Dive Funatics (Starting Nov 28)
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OTHER LOCATION IDC Schedule
IDC is scheduled in conjuction with the PADI IE calendar. IDC is conveniently designed to be completed the day before the scheduled Instructor Exam in the area. Note, scheduled IE may be cancelled by PADI without ample notice.
IDC in Coron with Reggae Dive Center (Starting Jun 04)
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IDC in Coron with Reggae Dive Center (Starting Oct 03)
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ONLINE / HYBRID IDC OPTION
If you do not have 2 weeks to spare for your IDC, don’t worry. We can cut the in-person, on-site course by half by doing our hybrid option – the most flexible and practical way to start becoming a PADI Instructor!
How it works is that we spend all live presentations, classroom presentation online. We set a 3 hour session, for 7 days ensuring that you have learned everything you need to start your on-site, in-person, in-water presentations in Cebu.
All you need to get started is to sign up so you get your IDC eLearning materials, get it done before scheduling the online sessions with us.
You can then join the last week of your regular PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) in Mactan, Cebu, Philippines which is scheduled for 6 times every year.
It is that simple, that convenient, that flexible!
Our Course Director
Our in-house PADI Silver Course Director, CD Darwin is not your typical instructor turned course director. In fact, he built a career in business management, hopping from one start up company to another to setup operations. Darwin understands that a new instructor must have skills, knowledge and goals to succeed beyond passing the PADI IE. His teaching style is focused on developing and mentoring leaders.
Darwin teaches over 15 specialty instructor areas. Getting your Master Scuba Diver Training or MSDT Prep, or IDC Staff Course, or help with your Master Instructor, he makes it easy and convenient for you.
Our PADI Instructor courses and workshops aim to equip you with skills, knowledge and business strategy beyond just passing the instructor exam (IE). We do not spoon feed, nor make you memorize concepts, nor force you to do what we want you to do. Instead, we make you understand and appreciate them!
Because our instructor development course is so intensive and inspirational, it will surely teach you how to teach people how to be scuba divers so that you come out very confident as a dive instructor.
Join our regular PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) in Mactan, Cebu, Philippines scheduled for 6 times every year. Take your PADI IDC with Dive Funatics – where both convenience and tropical setting converge so you can learn to teach the PADI system by heart!
EFR Instructor Course
The instructor course covers specific goals and performance requirements for the Primary Care, Secondary Care, Care for Children and CPR & AED courses, along with instruction on how to structure learning, the requirements of performance-based training, and your role as the instructor in the learning environment. You also learn how to motivate students, evaluate student knowledge, present course content effectively, become proficient in developing students’ hands-on skills practice sessions, and you are taught how to present an effective scenario-based learning experience. You’ll also receive information helpful in marketing your EFR business.
Divemaster Course
Lead Adventure. Become a PADI Divemaster.
Whether you want to hone your skills and dive like a pro or turn your passion into a career – you can start now for free! Discover what it takes to earn a PADI®Divemaster certification – PADI’s most popular professional-level rating. This program introduces you to the concepts, skills, and knowledge necessary to join the ranks of PADI Professionals worldwide.
Hurry, book your course with us!
Specialty Instructor Courses
More scuba diving and more fun as you share what interests you – that’s what teaching specialty diver courses is all about! The best way to learn how to make your specialty diver courses really special is to take a specialty instructor course from one of our PADI Course Director. We offer specialty courses in over ten (10) areas of interests.
All PADI Instructors will benefit from taking specialty instructor training courses. For instance, those who are ready to step up to the Master Scuba Diver™ Trainer (MSDT) rating need at least five (5) PADI Specialty Instructor certifications.
PADI Assistant Instructors, instructor candidates in training, and PADI Divemasters are eligible to enroll in certain specialty instructor courses. However, some specialties have additional prerequisites and exit requirements. Make sure to ask your PADI Course Director for details.
IDC Staff Instructor Course
IDC Staff Instructors are primary resources and mentors for instructor candidates during instructor training. With this comes a tremendous opportunity to positively affect the attitudes and abilities of the candidates, but it also results in a tremendous responsibility to remain current with PADI Standards and Procedures.
Master Scuba Diver Trainers (MSDTs) who are ready to be excellent role models and agree to use the PADI System and components in their entirety may enroll in an IDC Staff Instructor course.
A PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Center
We are ideally situated Mactan, Cebu. About 30 minutes away from the international airport and from prime resort destinations in Cebu.
We spend most of our time running courses. We teach a broad spectrum of PADI courses from entry certification to instructor level, including a lot of specialty courses to choose from. We believe in proper training, best practices sharing, and continuous learning from each other to make the best of every dive that we organize and undertake.
Our corporate social responsibility revolves around marine conservation and dive against debris on a regular basis.
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What our students have to say about us very recently.
I did my PADI Open Water course with Instructor Arthur, and a night dive with Ricky. Both of them were very knowledgeable and a great fun to learn and dive with. The Dive Funatics Team are very friendly and it has been such a great experience to dive with them!
Thank you for being such patient and approachable instructors! 🤙🏽
5 star PADI diving Center in Kontiki. Diving direct from the shore to reef (wall up to 45m). Walk on service, but better to reserve in advance.