If you’re already a professional Divemaster who loves diving you have most likely asked yourself the question already, why not become a scuba diving Instructor?
Becoming a PADI scuba diving instructor is more than just a job, it’s a life. A life that encompasses all things great in and around the recreational diving industry and offers divers a far more diverse working life than just what happens underwater. Working as an active PADI Scuba Diving Instructor is primarily about teaching new and experienced diver’s new skills and knowledge as well as providing people with new and unfamiliar experiences underwater. There is also a variety of aspects of the job that instructors will often be involved with such as sales, marketing, social media, and equipment maintenance and equipment sales.
Both new and experienced divers will always remember their first ever diving experience or the first time they experienced something new in diving and of course will remember the person who they did it with, so a scuba diving Instructor can expect to make a lot of new friends from a variety of different backgrounds and create lifelong unbreakable bonds sharing a unique passion of the underwater environment. As well as making new friends Instructors can expect to receive an instant increase in their social life as divers are always looking to share experiences and professional divers will find themselves involved in the full range of diving related social events whether it’s a simple meet up with dive buddies, students or colleagues; or its attending industry organised trade shows and training seminars. The internet plays a huge role in an Instructors life as it is often the primary source of information for divers looking for recommendations regarding new destinations and new training activities and there are many social networks that purely cater for the diving industry.
So as well as an increase in social life a scuba diving instructor will find that it’s just the start of a brand new career with unlimited scope when it comes to making friends, discovering new experience and gaining the opportunity to travel the world; combined with a passion for training and the underwater environment it really is an exciting and dynamic career path any diving professional should consider taking.
The Gili Islands comprises of three small islands off of the North West coast of Lombok and are very popular with divers and non-divers alike surrounded by tropical marine rich protected waters and palm swept beaches. For diving the Gili Islands offers some good quality drift dives close to shore with most dive centres offering single tank dives and boats that depart from directly outside the dive shop. The proximity of the dive sites makes Gili Trawangan a great place to take dive courses maximising the time spent training whilst minimising the time spent travelling to dive sites and dive boats. This becomes particularly useful when it comes to the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) allowing professional divers the opportunity to maximise time spent in the classroom and on the open ocean training site with boats leaving from directly in front of the dive centre and training sites no more than 15 minutes away. Another great thing about the purpose build Instructor training site is that it offers mild, but variable conditions with changing currents both in strength and in direction allowing instructor candidates to learn how to think on their feet and adapt to pretty much any kind of training environment they may see in the future that is deemed suitable for training new divers.
Gili Trawangan is the largest of the three Islands and offers a great deal of amenities and a thriving dive community. Although the island is well known for its nightlife there are also quiet laid back areas of the island and therefore Gili Trawangan generally caters to all types of visitor. Transport to the Island is well serviced with multiple boats arriving daily from Lombok and Bali as well as an International Airport situated in South Lombok.
In terms of the PADI Instructor training experience with Holly Macleod, professional divers can be assured that the program takes place at the only ever 5 Star PADI IDC Career Development Centre (CDC) to be established in Gili Trawangan offering world class training facilities at the absolute highest possible standards.
The entire program is entirely conducted by Globally Recognized Industry Award Winning Multiple Platinum PADI Course Director Holly Macleod who offers a wealth of Industry experience and a level of training considered to be of a standard way over and above that generally seen within the recreational diving Industry.
Holly has been diving for over 20 years and been a professional diver for the last 17 years teaching recreational PADI Programs and Courses in a variety of different worldwide diving destinations including Honduras, Thailand, Australia, UK, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore.
Having been awarded the PADI Platinum status for the past 7 years consecutively and having issued over 3000 Instructor level certifications professional divers can be assured that they will receive the highest possible standard of training and that Holly, with her vast industry experience is well aware of what the Industry will expect from brand new scuba diving instructors and conversely, what new scuba diving instructors can expect from the industry and what they can expect from specific geographic diving locations.
If you are a professional diver considering a career as a scuba diving instructor than here is your chance to get started on an exciting and reward career teaching the world to dive. The Gili Islands offer the perfect setting for professional dive training and lifestyle options and is easy to reach by both boat and airplane. The PADI IDC Scuba Diving Instructor Course takes place in the only 5 Star IDC Career development Centre (CDC) in Gili Trawangan and the entire program is entirely conducted by Holly Macleod; a highly experienced PADI Course Director offering a level of training considered to be of a standard way over and above that generally found elsewhere.