Trawangan
IDC
Your PADI Instructor Development Course with Trawangan Dive
Trawangan Dive is an award winning PADI Career Development Centre, the classification awarded to PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Dive Resorts for dedication to the professional development for dive instructors. Having met PADIโs highest requirements for the training of PADI Professionals and preparation for a career in the dive industry, we also have had huge success in job placement for our candidates.
Take the plunge and start your diving career today!
Share your love of the underwater world
PADI Dive Instructors have the best jobs in the world! Teaching people how to dive and introducing them to the aquatic realm beats office work any day.
Our PADI professional courses can help shape your future and enable you to teach what you love.
Experience the best
Our teaching facilities include an air conditioned classroom with large visual and interactive teaching aids. We have all the materials needed to conduct successful clear and informative presentations on every aspect of scuba diving and its teaching. We also have two diver training pools, changing rooms, equipment storage and a climate controlled tech room. We also have a range of accommodation options.
You can enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner in our beach restaurant, and a tropical drink or cold beer in our swim up bar after youโve finished your day of training.
Start a new life as a PADI Instructor
If youโre bored of long office hours or tired of the daily grind, now is the time to change your life!
Make the sea your new office and become a PADI Instructor!
Teach people how to scuba dive, make new friends and discover exotic locations. Itโs all possible at Trawangan Dive. The adventure starts here.
Hi, I’m Laura!
I’m your Course Director at Trawangan Dive. When I’m not teaching the new generation of scuba professionals, you can find me on Closed Circuit Rebreather dives exploring deep walls of Lombok, diving in a cave in Mexico, writing articles and blogs to dive magazines or representing sustainable brands and organizing underwater cleanups.
Ocean has been my office for almost a decade. I’ve trained thousands of students, yet I’m still extremely excited every time I take someone underwater. My purpose is to pass this passion and knowledge to you, new SCUBA instructors.
The Ocean Advocate IDC program is designed to show you how to teach SCUBA divers following PADI standards as well as how to use various tools to preserve the natural beauty of our ocean. So join me on a life-changing adventure and enjoy the vibe of the tropical paradise of Gili Trawangan.
Discover something new
Swim through schools of jacks and barracuda at Shark Point and marvel at the beauty of our reef sharks. Follow the treasure trail of pygmy seahorses at Deep Halik. Find the cute frogfish and pipefish at Hans Reef. Glide beside a turtle or check out our colourful nudibranch.
You’ll be amazed at the diversity of marine life around the Gili islands.
Why you should choose Trawangan Dive
The Instructor Development Course itself is designed as a 14 day program, with three days of pre course preparation. The pre IDC preparation is essentially a review of skills and knowledge from the PADI Divemaster Course. All Instructor training is entirely conducted by Kazi from start to finish as well as pre course preparation and post training support.
During your IDC, Trawangan Dive will support you as much as possible.
New IDC's starting every month. Entirely conducted by Kazi
Highly experienced Instructor training support team
Free Fun Diving before the course
Learning materials, tools, air-conditioned classroom and study areas are provided
Free equipment rental
Free team-teaching opportunities
Experiences in a variety of teaching conditions e.g. Current
Organized IDC Party to celebrate our newly qualified Dive Instructors
A range of accomodation options to suit all tastes
Daily Lunch is included
Travel and visa assistance can be provided upon request.
Free wireless internet access is included.
5% discount on all equipment purchases in our Sales Shop for IDC candidates
We are proud of our 100% pass rate for all IDC candidates
Emergency First Response Instructor (EFRI) Course is included
We include additional workshops on crucial skills such as the controlled emergency swimming ascent, how to run a DSD, controlling ascents and descents, Rescue skills and a Search and Recovery workshop
Our Open Water training site is located at Hans and Halik Reef. They're extremely beautiful dive site and only a 5 minute journey on our spacious dive boats
Find new Friends
We can’t guarantee that you’ll find the love of your life, but you’ll definitely make lots of new friends during your course with us.
The dive industry on Gili Trawangan is vibrant and thriving and attracts divers from all over the world.
Whatever your interest or passion, you’ll find someone here to share it with.
Read here what our latest PADI Instructors are saying about the Course
Holly is the best! With Holly and the teamโs ( Justin, Ri, Sarah ..) help, I scored 99 for the knowledge exam and five for the skill performance. Iย was worriedย about IE at the beginning for 2 reasons; First I donโt speak English well and second I havenโt accumulated enough experience, especially about some diving theory. But Holly was there all the time to make sure I can understand all the questions. Donโt hesitate to come if English is not your first language, because you will get extra help. And you can come early for the diving theory review and fun dive – Itโs all free.ย TDCย is a nice place, I stronglyย recommend this diving school.
Amazing IDC experience with Holly, super professional fun course, great facilities, we were so well prepared for our I. E. The whole thing was a blast. Don’t consider going anywhere else for your IDC. Holly is an awesome teacher.
Holly is the best course director i could imagine! Thank you for everything! ๐
Holly is the best course director you can have! She is just amazing, well organised and the whole course is structured very well. She is so patient and has answers to all questions you may have. I can highly recommend her course – she will train you in a very good way and prepare you for your instructor exam. Apart from that we also had lots of fun during the IDC with the whole crew!
I researched a lot forย other awesome sounding IDC’s but Iย am completely relieved I went withย TDC. Hollyย has a reputationย for beingย amongย the best in the world. A reputation she has worked hard for and deserves. Justin, Laura, Marco and Doug completed an amazing team of staff. Thank you!
Huge shout out to Holly, who put so much effort in an IDC course! I can highly recommend to everyone who plans on a dive instructor career to start it with them!
Holly is a lovely person. She always has time to answer all questions. From the first time on even when you haven’t sign inย and alsoย to all the little side questions doesn’t belong to the IDC.
Of course I can not compare my Instructor course with other courses (would be a shame if I could), but the patience, effort, time and hard work that Holly, Dan, Rik and Justin put into our group is definitely not average. It’s high above.
They all give more of their time than theyย would have to just to answer all of our questions or to relearn what we haven’t understood completely.
Already in the first days I could feel the difference and during only two weeks I felt 95%ย preparedย for the IE. And in the end, the IE felt almost too easy, so well were weย preparedย by this great team. What means we were 150% prepared, whatever we felt by ourself.
The place among the best in the world is definitelyย hard-earnedย and absolutely right.
Thanks for all Holly, Dan, Rik and Justin.
Be a leader of the pack
With the help of our team of expert PADI instructors, you learn to become the role model you’ve always dreamed you could be. We’ll guide you through the process, ensuring you build confidence in using the PADI system of education.
When it comes to teaching your first student, it’ll feel natural and easy. You’ll wonder why you never did it earlier.
2022 IDC AND IE CALENDAR
Instructor Development Course
2021
- 05 Jan – 25 Jan
- 09 Feb – 01 Mar
- 16 Mar – 05 Apr
- 20 Apr – 10 May
- 01 Jun – 21 Jun
- 20 Jul – 09 Aug
- 31 Aug – 20 Sep
- 12 Oct – 01 Nov
- 16 Nov – 06 Dec
Instructor Examination
2021
- 26 Jan – 27 Jan
- 02 Mar – 03 Mar
- 06 Apr – 07 Apr
- 11 May – 12 May
- 22 Jun – 23 Jun
- 10 Aug – 11 Aug
- 21 Sep – 22 Sep
- 02 Nov – 03 Nov
- 07 Dec – 08 Dec
Ready to change your life?
Book your Instructor Course now. If you have any question we are here to help.
