TOTAL PACKAGE INSTRUCTOR DEVELOPMENT COURSE (IDC)

Become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor!

Join Bruce Weitzenhoffer, our Gold, PADI Course Director, for your TOTAL PACKAGE Instructor Development Course (IDC)! Bruce has extensive cold-water experience, more than 15,000 dives, and vast experience teaching and diving all over the world. Interested in living, diving and working in often challenging conditions? Become an instructor in the environment where you’ll teach. Even if you are planning to spend time in the tropics, the skills you learn here, in cold water, will serve you well – anywhere in the world!

This is a multi-part program:

PADI IDC Preparation Day
PADI Assistant Instructor Course
PADI Open Water Instructor Course
Emergency First Response Instructor Course
DAN Diving First Aid (DFA) Provider Course
DAN Instructor Suite (DFA & BLS & EO2) Course
ENHANCED PADI Master SCUBA Diver Trainer Preparation (MSDT Prep) Course, that includes a total of EIGHT (8) PADI Specialty Instructor ratings. ALSO includes EAN and EO2 Student Certifications if you do not already have these.

Additionally, this includes an optional shop internship for practical sales and client communications, training, fill station operation, equipment rental with inspection and cleaning procedures.

Here at Salem Scuba, we have created a program that includes everything you’ll need to teach the most requested SCUBA and Diver Safety courses, and to be a valuable and diversely trained member of a successful dive shop operation.

This bundled package represents about a 45% savings off the individual course prices.

Course Pricing: $6,500

Materials & Administrative Fees*: $2,800
Tuition: $3,700 (payable at first, in-person session)
Plus: $1,843 Examination, Certification & Processing Fees (payable to PADI)
*Includes: IDC Crew-Pak; Skill Development Prep Slate; Dive Theory eLearning; EFR Instructor Digital Crew-Pak, DAN eLearning and Slate Pack

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SIGN UP TODAY – call: 503-588-3483 and speak with Dea or Charline.

For more information, or with any questions, including future IDC’s that we have scheduled, please contact bruce@salemscuba.com. He will promptly respond.

SCHEDULE:

2026 MARCH / APRIL:

SAT, 14 MAR: IDC Prep Day 9AM – 6PM
THU, 19 MAR: 5PM – 9PM
FRI, 20 MAR: 8AM – 6PM
SAT, 21 MAR: 8AM – 6PM
SUN, 22 MAR: 8AM – 6PM
FRI, 27 MAR: 8AM – 6PM
SAT, 28 MAR: 8AM – 6PM
SUN, 29 MAR: 8AM – 6PM
FRI, 03 APR: 8AM – 6PM
SAT, 04 APR: 8AM – 6PM
SUN, 05 APR: 8AM – 6PM
MON, 06 APR: 8AM – 6PM

PADI IE @ PADI HQ:

30151 Tomas, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688

SAT, 11 APR: Times – TBD
SUN, 12 APR: Times – TBD

2026 SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER:

SAT, 19 SEP: IDC Prep Day: 9AM – 6PM
THU, 24 SEP: 5PM – 9 PM
FRI, 25 SEP: 8AM – 6PM
SAT, 26 SEP: 8AM – 6PM
SUN, 27 SEP: 8AM – 6PM
MON, 28 SEP: 8AM – PM
TUE, 29 SEP: 8AM – 6PM
SAT, 03 OCT: 8AM – 6PM
SUN, 04 OCT: 8AM – 6PM
MON, 05 OCT: 8AM – 6PM
TUE, 06 OCT: 8AM – 6PM
WED, 07 OCT: 8AM – 6PM

PADI IE @ PADI HQ:

30151 Tomas, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688

SAT, 10 OCT: TIMES – TBD
SUN, 11 OCT: TIMES – TBD

DESCRIPTION:

Additionally, we schedule our TOTAL PACKAGE IDC to be both efficient and thorough; to seamlessly synch with the 2-day PADI Instructor Exam (IE) administered by PADI Staff and typically scheduled for the weekend immediately following the completion of our Course. This timeline reinforces mastery retention of knowledge and skills to best prepare you for success at the IE and when teaching. This Program truly sets you up to broadly teach the most requested core and specialty SCUBA and safety courses.