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Master Scuba Diver Preparatory - IDC and MSDT Internship

4-5 days 650 uSD

PADI Instructor (IDC) Internship & MSDT prep program

Give your career a kick-start with the MSDT prep program. After certification as a PADI Scuba Instructor (OWSI) you can enhance your career prospects by becoming a Master Scuba Diver Trainer. Enrolling in PADI Specialty Instructor courses makes you more valuable as an employee (making it easier to find work), gives you more variety in your teaching, and gives you better income opportunities. Also, if you take advantage of our incredible MSDT offer, you soon find that you can achieve the higher Instructor rating of 'Master Scuba Diver Trainer' and really get a head start! This course can be completed in 4-5 days and allows you to teach up to 5 specialty courses of you choice immediately. Upon issuing 25 certifications (any areas), you'll be awarded the rating of the MSDT. 

Amazing promo for 2013 1st Quarter only - GoPro 3.0 is right here, right now!!!!  

We have 3 amazing offers for candidates who want to GoPro in 2013 with the most awarded PADI Career Development Center and team in the Americas, and for all bookings taken online in 2013 (limited availability each month) see what we are offering in addition to all the other unbeatable benefits and value of training with Utila Dive Centre;

1) Book on our PADI Instructor course and get $100 off Instructor course when booked online, reduced from $1195 to $1095 and free PADI O2 Instructor course (limited availability per IDC you just pay manual and PADI fees), amazing offer with total savings up to $300!!!

2) Book our Premium Pro Plus package (IDC/EFR/MSDT) and add another $90 in savings so up to $190 in total off regular rates, plus free PADI O2 Instructor course (normally $200), and free IAHD Adaptive Teaching Instructor course (normally $350), so an amazing combined value package saving you $740, not just an amazing saving but we're the only facility in the Bay Islands to offer IAHD training!!

3) Go Sidemount - our promo's just get better and better, GoPro 3.0 and we'll offer you sidemount training, both diver and Instructor levels for a special reduced from $700 to $540 (you just pay PADI application fee), so another saving of $160.

Contact us gopro@utiladivecentre.com and quote GoPro 3.0 and get savings of up to $900, simply unbeatable with unmatched training and the most value and credible PADI Instructor training in the Americas, in addition to all the other amazing benefits of training with Utila Dive Centre!

Continue reading for other amazing reasons to train and dive with us......

GoPro in our Career Development Center

Choose from the following Instructor programs (with more variety than any other PADI IDC facility in Honduras or throughout Central America): Nitrox, Gas Blender, Wreck, Deep, Night, Naturalist, Photography, Search & Recovery, Dolphin Rebreather, Equipment, Navigation, Videography, Emergency Oxygen Provider, Diver Propulsion Vehicles.

These courses can be offered as stand alone programs or as part of our PADI MSDT Prep program. Come join us at the Utila Dive Centre, the only PADI Career Development Center Central America, for the additional skills and knowledge that will make you stand out in today's dive industry.  

Most comprehensive choice in the Caribbean and Central America

Choose from our Specialty Instructor Courses (note our top 7 preferred choices which are in demand and really set you apart and require our specialized instruction, all other choices can often be applied for based on your own direct experience at a later date);

Deep
Night
Naturalist
Search & Recovery
Dolphin Rebreather
Navigation
Videography 

In addition to offering the full range of PADI specialties, the Utila Dive Centre can also offer training in marine biology through 'Beautiful Oceans' and diver safety through the 'Divers Alert Network'. Our team and staff have invested in their own training and courses so that they can provide you the best options to advance your dive career. The Utila Dive Centre is the only facility in Central America and the Caribbean to offer both the 'Beautiful Oceans' marine biology programs and the full range of 'Divers Alert Network' dive safety courses.

At the Utila Dive Centre you'll have the opportunity to earn up to 25 certifications (approximately 15-25) you need to reach this rating and you'll earn a valuable and priceless reference which shows you trained and interned in our world recognised and awarded PADI Career Development Center. Put more variety into your teaching and increase your earnings potential and enroll in this program immediately after the PADI IE.

There's no other facility in the Americas that has daily PADI courses or classes scheduled in a way that will allow you to assist on at least 5 PADI courses, from Open Water to Rescue, and gain invaluable real world experience and organizational and logistical skills. By the end of our internship you will have issued up to 15-25 PADI certifications and can apply for your PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer rating. You will also have earned a valuable reference from our Career Development Center, which is good for life, wherever you travel in the world as an Instructor.

As a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer you increase your earnings potential, qualifications, employment prospects, and with our internship will excel as an Instructor, stand out form the crowd and get the guaranteed 'head start' to your dive career with our 'Masters' in scuba instruction!

Our IDC is award winning, dynamic, proven and includes the following;

• Additional study and support materials, free of charge, designed to aid your learning development

We're also offering International Yacht Training programs that can be taken concurrently and in  onjunction with  our Premium Pro Plus Instructor internships.  The IYT/PADI Dive Boat  Mate is being offered and scheduled in conjunction with our MSDT internship, and we will be offering training all year round and e-learning is best completed independently prior to arriving on Utila
and supported with our Instructors remedial training. The IYT Dive Boat Mate course allows our PADI pro's to start tendering and driving boats
as second command, logging sea time and once an individual has completed  180 days (4 hours = 1 day) of sea time, as dive boat crew, they are eligible to take the IYT Coxswain Boat Captains course, which we also offer at Utila Dive Centre.  For candidates training to become PADI Instructors with us on our MSDT program, there is also the option to qualify as an IYT/PADI Dive Boat Mate Instructor, thereby increasing your own employment prospects and that of the future PADI Divemasters you train, and increasing your earnings potential and own maritime teaching experience.

Please see the following section for more information on the IYT training and courses offered at Utila Dive Centre.

There's never been a better time to train as a PADI Scuba Instructor, with a growing dive industry worldwide, but also in recent years the expansion and growth of the yachting industry and recreational super yachts, makes  this the perfect compliment to enhance your dive training and employ-ability in dive resorts, and on day boats, live-aboard vessels and super yachts worldwide. We encourage early enrollment on these courses as we have very limited spaces, please inquire for costs and scheduling. 

Call us +1-305-4205959 or UK 0203 3719488, we'll call right back for a personal discussion about your professional training goals, specific course prices, requirements and other questions, or e-mail gopro@utiladivecenter.com.

You can also read more on our dedicated professional training website GoProUtila, and please feel free to join our online communities on YouTube and Facebook to see how we're the read deal for you!

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