There are a couple of things you could prepare in advance before your IDC starts. You can either refresh your theory knowledge using the "PADI Diving Knowledge Workbook" and the "PADI Encyclopedia" or you logg on to the PAD webpage eLearning section and choose to study the "dive theory" online.

Apart from studying the dive theory online you can as well start the following IDC sections online using the PADI webpage:

1. Learning, Instruction and the PADI System
2. General Standards and Procedures
3. Risk Management
4. Marketing Diving
5. Start Diving
6. Teaching PADI Specialty Diver Courses
7. Business of Diving
8. Keep Diving
9. How to Teach the Recreational Dive Planner (RDP) – required for crossover candidates; optional for PADI Members

Jump in a pool, a lake or the sea with a buddy and practice the demonstration of all skills out of the PADI Open Water Diver Course as you did during your Divemaster Training Course. Remember that your demo should be slow, exaggerating and easy looking.

Also feel free to join one of our instructors during teaching before the start of the IDC, or join our IDC preparation program, starting two days before the IDC. Apart the sections listet above we are going through rescue skills, dive master theory and the skill demonstration in the pool. This is a good fresh up and creates a more relaxed atmosphere.AND: You’ll get to know the staff and other participants already.