career Development Course(CDC):

DO YOU WANT YOUR OFFICE
TO BE ON THE BEACH?
DO YOU WANT THE LIFE
THAT OTHERS ENVY?
DO YOU LIKE TO TRAVEL TO
EXOTIC DESTINATIONS?
DO YOU LOVE SCUBA DIVING?

 

Then what you need to do is our legendary Career Development Course! Designed with someone like you in mind, this is a 6 month full-time internship that takes you from “zero to hero”. It takes you through all the certifications you need to complete to become a Padi Instructor, and it prepares you for the adventure that awaits.

When you qualify yourself in anything, you want to be the best. Employment and business opportunities are becoming more limited than ever before, and it is with this in mind that we have specially designed our Career Development Course. Our course has been designed not to only qualify you as a Padi Instructor, but to also give you a considerable edge over any “normal” Padi Instructor out there. After doing our 6 months internship you will be very well equipped, and prepared, to go out there and live the dream.

As diving is one of the fastest growing recreational sports in the world and with that has ever growing employment requirements, there is a vast amount of options for the future diving professionals, provided they have the right equipment and training. At Into the Blue Scuba Diving we give them the tools to be successful in this dynamic and ever-changing industry.

A six-month internship with Into the Blue will ensure that you get the hands-on experience that cannot be taught in the classroom. The course combines practical application, business management, customer relations and a sound theoretical knowledge base. Our emphasis is placed on producing all-round skilled Scuba diving instructors with absolute passion for their profession.

Our specially designed Career Development Course consists out of:

Dive Courses

  1. PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
  2. PADI Rescue diver
  3. PADI Dive Master
  4. PADI Instructor

Other Diving Related Courses

  1. Emergency First Response (1st Aid Course)
  2. Emergency 1st Response Instructor
  3. DAN O2 instruction
  4. Compressor Operators license

Experience in

  1. Equipment Knowledge & Servicing
  2. Dive Store Management
  3. Sales
  4. Marketing
  5. Public Relations
  6. Dive Charters & Beach Control
  7. Selling yourself in the dive industry
  8. Six month internship in a PADI Centre in Cape Town

Upon completion, participants step into the diving industry as an internationally qualified Padi Scuba Instructor and is able to work in any one of 176 countries worldwide.

costs

R46 000 with various payment options available.

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Why choose PADI?

PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) is the world-wide association that certifies the diving courses that you will be taught by Into the Blue Scuba Diving Cape Town.

By choosing to do a PADI course, you are assured of a very thorough and well-planned course. PADI keeps the fun in diving, while at the same time also teaching strict safe scuba diving practices. The quality of PADI courses and standards have excelled them into the foremost recreational diving association in the world.

Currently about 82% of all recreational divers across the world do their diving through PADI – which means that no matter where you go, PADI Instructors really have the widest recreational diving career options available out there !

Why Cape Town?

In recent years Cape Town has exploded into one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. The city vibrates with life and adventure, in a way that no other city in South Africa does.

Learning to dive in Cape Town’s waters will give you an advantage over instructors who have been taught in more tropical waters. Diving in Cape Town waters, you will sometimes experience conditions that require more skill than tropical waters – colder water, bad visibility at times, severe winds at times, currents and swell. You get brilliant diving days in Cape Town, and you also get days where diving is not that easy. Learning to be a PADI Diving Instructor in these conditions makes you high in demand. World-wide instructors originating from Cape Town and from the UK are sought after, as you will have learned how to adapt to different diving conditions.

As Cape Town lies between the colder Atlantic and the warmer Indian Ocean, its waters boast sea life that is very unique. Since the 1500’s it has been estimated that around 800 ships have sank around the Cape Peninsula – which makes for great shipwreck diving!

Finding a place to stay in Cape Town is relatively easy, and it’s an amazing place to live!

Why Do my internship at into the Blue Scuba centre ?

At Into the Blue, we pride ourselves in producing the best PADI Instructors out there. Our candidates are known to perform the best in the Instructors Exams, as they have been well prepared. We also have our own in-house IDC Staff Instructor, which means that we have a special insight in how to prepare you best for your career as an instructor.

Furthermore, we have an amazing atmosphere and work ethic at Into the Blue. Candidates are normally quite sad when the time comes for them to move on, and they have described their Career development course as "the best time of their life".

Something you should know about our internship program

Although diving is a lot of fun, you should also know that working in a dive center is hard work. As an intern you will be starting at the bottom of the diving professional world, and you will be working yourself up. Running a dive center includes a lot of things that does not meet the eye immediately – things like washing the gear after a dive, keeping the center clean, marketing, selling gear (for which you really have to know your gear), and being an all round handyman.

The idea behind the internship is that you get to know every asset of a dive center – from bottom to the top. By the time that you finish your internship with us, you will be able to walk into any dive center with a firm foundation of skills toward doing whatever they need from you.

If you have a student or part-time job on the side, we will do our best to accommodate your hours to fit in with your work hours. Talk to us so that we can see how we can make our schedules fit.

Why become a diving instructor?

  • Great lifestyle – your office is the beach
  • For the adventurous
  • An amazing tool for traveling – there are dive resorts all over the world, most of them in exotic places. If you are thinking of going traveling, then becoming a diving instructor is a great qualification to have. Do something you like while earning money and seeing places instead of working as unskilled labour in a factory in England or working on a farm in Kansas (been there done that). You can even go work on cruise ships as an instructor.

Make an appointment to meet us and see our facilities! We would love to discuss the course with you, as well as the doors that it can open for you in the future.