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Why Bay Island
College of Diving for your PADI IDC?
We at BICD are proud of our continuing
reputation for giving professional quality tuition
since first starting 12 years ago. As a PADI 5 Star
Career Development Centre we have reached the
pinnacle of diver training; we were the first to be
awarded this honor in Honduras and continue to set
the standard for all dive operations on Utila. We
have received numerous certificates of recognition
for excellence over the years. We consider Safety as
our number one concern so much so that we put money
where our mouth is and have constructed Utila’s only
Hyperbaric and trauma unit.
We run the most dynamic, updated PADI Instructor
Development Course (IDC) in Central America, keeping
you always on the cutting edge.
With state of the art full multimedia computerised
classrooms: laptops, LCD projectors, video etc. By
teaching the very latest PADI Courses as soon as
they are released and by using all the very latest
PADI materials as soon as they become available, we
ensure that your PADI Instructor Development
experience is the most updated, comprehensive and
professional available...!!!
Our IDCs produce unmatched
success rates year after year with our IDC
candidates regularly scoring way above average!
Our comprehensive IDC includes:
A 10 Day Expanded IDC
Program
Although PADI
requires an IDC to have a minimum duration of 7 days
we have found some extra presentations and workshops
highly beneficial to our candidates' success. To
accommodate these extra presentations, workshops, we
have found a 10 day program more suitable.
Extra workshops
include: Theory, Required skills, Ascents &
Descents, Buoyancy control, Buddy Breathing both
swimming and stationary, Controlled Emergency
Swimming Ascent (CESA), Rescue Exercise #7 and
Student Control, both under water and at the
surface.
Whilst our program
is intense and demanding, we guarantee you they will
also be both fun and enjoyable.
We work hard to
keep this an efficient and relaxed program,
important because people are most receptive to
learning and perform their best in a low stress
environment.
Small Classes = Personal Attention!!!
BICD
are proud of their IE Pass Rate: one of the ways
this fantastic Pass Rate has been maintained has
been by limiting class sizes to no more than 8
IDC Candidates per IDC!!
It is only by
limiting Candidate numbers that a Course Director
can spend the necessary time and personal attention
that YOU NEED and deserve to fully develop
your abilities during an IDC.
Our highly qualified
and experienced staff are dedicated to YOUR IDC
program and are available 24 hrs a day to answer any
queries or questions you might have.
Extra remedial
lectures and workshops are ALWAYS available and are
scheduled during the evenings as required.
IE Pass Guarantee!!!
Due to the continued
success rate of our comprehensive PADI IDC programs
on Utila, we are happy to offer you the following
guarantee:
"In the unlikely
event you should fail any area of the IE, after
having attended our IDC (including the IDC Prep
course), you will be invited to attend, one on one,
remedial classes with our Course Director on the
area you failed, in readiness for your next IE and
if needed our next (or any other) IDC free of
charge”
PLEASE NOTE:
this offer has NEVER been needed as to date
we have only ever had one candidate be unsuccessful
at their FIRST IE!!!
NEW IDC dedicated
Training Area!!!
All our Instructor
Development takes place within Bay Islands
College of Diving 5 Career Development Centre (CDC),
Just 5 minute walk from the ferry terminal and a 5
minute taxi ride from the Airport.
All The IDC classroom
presentations take place in our
NEW
IDC dedicated Training Area with purpose
built fully computerized classrooms: complete with
state of the art technology and full multimedia
support: PCs, LCD projector, video, TV as well as
air conditioning, white boards, slide projectors
etc.
Located on site is our purpose built swimming pool,
perfect for the IDC Confined Water training.
Our IDC Staff and
Languages
BICD teaches its
IDC programs in English.
The main reason is that because the dive industry is
such a huge, diverse and truly international
business, although you might plan to teach only in
your native language, chances are you’re going to
find yourself doing a lot of teaching in English.
Our aim is to
prepare you for this from the beginning.
Although the IDC will be taught in English, our
multi-lingual staff can help with any particular
tricky translation.
Staff languages
currently include French, Spanish, German, Swedish
and Danish.
Should you wish to give a presentation during the
IDC or the IE in your own language, with prior
notice we can arrange for a suitable translator. You
are however encouraged to give your presentations in
English.
If you have any
doubts about language please don't worry – just
contact us
PADI
Oxygen Provider Course included!!!
Unfortunately it
is a sad fact that divers do suffer accidents and as
we are all aware the primary first aid procedure for
diving related accidents is oxygen provision.
What is alarming is that a large percentage of dive
professionals, both Divemasters and Instructors,
have NEVER received training in this field and are
untrained in oxygen administration.
We have integrated the PADI Oxygen Provider Course into our
comprehensive IDC program.
….including all course materials and certification
fees!
Mandatory for
Instructors and Divemasters in most countries
throughout the world
- this course gives
candidates a basic knowledge for the practical
administration of oxygen using various delivery
systems and masks.
PADI Enriched Air or Emergency First Response
Instructor, you decide, included FOC!!!
 PADI’s Enriched Air Specialty
Course is by far their most popular, why miss out on
the opportunity to teach this course from the start?
If you are already a “nitrox” diver then you can
upgrade to an EANx Instructor and it won’t cost you
anything, if not why not take advantage of our
“Nitrox prep day” and become one.
 Alternatively
why not include Emergency First Response Instructor
to your list of Instructor Qualifications; again it
broadens your employment possibilities.
With the new PADI
Rescue course requirement of a
CPR/1st Aid qualification
within the previous 24 months before Training
session 2, why turn potential students away because
you can’t offer them
the complete “Package”. So if you meet one of the
following criteria you can enroll in the EFR
Instructor course:
·
Have EFR Primary, Secondary care,
and Care for children, taken within the last 24
months
·
Current CPR/1st Aid Instructor with
another “recognized” organization or
· A practicing medical professional.
If you would like to enroll on
this course but don’t have the required
prerequisites or they have lapsed just
click here
to find out how to gain them.
Why not take both of them and be even more
employable!!!!
With one of the above courses for
free how can you not afford to take both??????
PADI Instructor Level
Continuing Education Courses available post
IE
A
full range of Continuing Education Courses is
available.
PADI Specialty Instructor up to
MSDT Prep:
Completing these qualifications
through your Course Director allows you to start
teaching the specialties immediately and then all
you have to do is to teach 25 courses and then you
can apply for your MSDT.
DAN Instructor courses including
Provider, Advanced Oxygen and Hazardous marine Life
Injuries.
Chamber Distinctive Specialties:
As we have the
only Hyperbaric chamber on the island we are the
only dive centre on Utila to be able to offer this
unique opportunity – courses include basic Chamber
orientation to Chamber operator.
Click here
for further details
Support during your IE
Most Course Directors and IDC
Centers do not accompany their candidates during the
Instructor Examination.
Although we know that our job
is over and your preparation is complete at the end
of our IDC, we also take care of all the logistics
during your IE. Your Course Director will accompany
you throughout the entire IE program.
This guarantees that you can
concentrate 100% on your IE without wasting time
worrying about paperwork, payments, transport,
equipment and the like.
Looking for work as a
PADI instructor...?!?!?
Should we not be able to find work for you within
our own operations, we will help you find positions
either through our extensive contacts in Central
America or throughout the rest of the world.
We also offer a free CV and employment workshop
“make your CV standout to your prospective
employers” and know where to look for that “dream
job”. Remember, the best way to stand out is through
continuing your Instructor level education and be
able to offer the dive center’s customers more which
means both the dive centre and you make more money!!
For more information re: job opportunities, visa
requirements etc:
contact us
Your Instructor VIP Card
Upon receipt of your IDC package course deposit,
you are entitled to a Bay Islands College of Diving
"Instructor VIP Discount card".
Bay Islands College of Diving is not only a full
retail facility and service centre, but also the
Utila distributor for Scubapro.
Your VIP card gives you 20 % discount on all
personal dive equipment purchased from Bay Islands
College of Diving - and is valid forever...!!!
This is an ideal chance to buy any last minute items
prior to your IDC.
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