New Tech Rec Instructor products

Due to the changes in the Tec Rec programme the instructor-level products have been revised.Any student-level materials you may have on-hand are still current.

NEW ITEMS
Tec Diver Course Instructor Guide
(includes newly-revised instructor guide and instructor appendix CD-ROM)
- replaces Tec Deep Inst.

Guide Tec 40-45-50 Instructor Slates Set
Newly-revised 19 slate set, coil-bound and printed on "wet notes."
- replaces Tec Deep Inst.

Cue Cards Tec Diver Course Lesson Guides CD-ROM

- replaces Tec Deep Lesson Guides

Tec Trimix Instructor Guide
(includes instructor guide and tec trimix 65 addendum)
If you already own the Tec Trimix Instructor Guide, please contact PADI Training regarding the revisions:
EXAMS
Tec 40 student exam
Tec 45 student exam
Tec 50 student exam
Blank answer sheets and answer keys are in the Tec Diver Instructor Guide and will be available soon on the PADI Pros site.
Instructor-level exams have changed. If you are a TecRec Instructor Trainer (course director) please call PADI training for details.

UN-CHANGED ITEMS
None of the student materials have changed for any of the courses. In other words, whatever student materials you have in stock are current.
No changes to the Equipment Set-Up DVD.
Gas Blender
None of the Gas Blender materials have changed. We put the instructor guide in a new binder so it would match the other guides, but that's it.
Tec Trimix
There have been a few changes to the Tec Trimix instructor guide. Please contact PADI Training for details.
Students use the Tec Trimix student exam for "Tec 65."
Instructors continue to use the same Trimix Lesson Guides.
Watch this space and other PADI communications for avalability dates for these products.

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Effective use of your students PADI wall certificates

Some useful suggestions from Peter Driessel, PADI Regional Manager, Africa & Middle East .

Many successful PADI dive centres hold a certification evening on their premises or in a local restaurant where they award their new divers with a PADI certificate of the various courses they have completed.

We know that this has always been positive as students from various courses get to mingle and promote the course that they have just completed to other attendees; we also know that invited non diving family members and friends are often turned onto the idea of scuba diving.

With all this said, have you ever given any consideration to the certificate presentation?During many of these evenings that I have attended I've seen dive centres give out both framed and non framed certificates. This got me thinking, how you can build a framed certificate that a diver would be proud to hang on the wall of their office or within their home.

My solution was to include the certificate, course title, for example, Open Water Class of 2009 and a photograph with all the names of the recently qualified divers.

Having a certificate like this will immediately add the professionalism to your course that our products and materials already portray.

Recently during the Dive Show in Johannesburg I hung several of these certificates on the Kewe Sales/PADI stand and was amazed at how many non divers said that they wanted to do the course with us as we looked so professional with our certificates!

In my opinion the most important factor in the presentation is that, you can be sure that the receiving diver will hang their certificate thereby creating interest for all that look at it.

Do you want new divers?

Read here to see how close your intro dive is to an ISO approved programme and find out how to become a leader in your market Follow these simplified DSD guidelines and reap the rewards Missing a trick? Do you have enough Open Water Divers?

Our most successful centres at diver acquisition are those that have a proactive Discover Scuba Diving (DSD) programme, targeted at securing entry level divers.

Thought it was too difficult to run the operation and market the centre at the same time?

Time to give it a go!Discover Scuba Diving made easy DSD’s can be conducted in a Pool, Confined Open Water and Open Water.

The aim is to give the participant an experience they will not forget and hopefully encourage them to complete a PADI entry level course.

Review the DSD Instructor Guide in the PADI Instructor Manual for further detailed information if required.DSD in a pool or confined open water.

Are you a Divemaster holding the DSD Leader rating, an Assistant Instructor or above?

If so, you can do this.

DSD participants complete and sign the PADI Discover Scuba Diving Brochure
Have participants complete and sign the Discover Scuba Diving Knowledge and Safety Review.
Conduct briefing
Help new divers put on and adjust their scuba equipment.
Skill performance requirements are conducted in shallow water before moving to water too deep in which to stand.

You may not engage in any other activities, such as taking photographs or video, while supervising participants
Demonstrate and have students master Inflation and deflation of a BCD at the surface
Directly supervise new divers as they breathe underwater and swim around in shallow water. When comfortable, take them on tours in deeper water as appropriate.

Debrief divers
Promote your PADI Scuba Diver, PADI Open Water Diver Programme or Scuba Connect Programme
Register your DSD participants online In a nutshell! – Conduct a PADI DSD any time a customer wants to experience diving in a pool or confined body of water.

The only required inwater skill relates to BCD use on the surface. There is no maximum or minimum time requirement; this is left to you.

After the poolsession it is important you ask the participant about continuing to the OWD course imediatly:

Have OWD Crew packs available, "start to day".

Have a schedule about the next course start.

PADI eLearning could work for many students, make sure you have the link on your web page.

Help your participants to sign on to the OWD Course, make it easy and fun!

A DSD experience is the most successful programme to generate new customers, especially if the centres are using freshly certified divers to share their experience at the end of the DSD. It’s within PADI standards to have a PADI Open Water or Advanced Open Water Diver helping with the logistics of organizing equipment and other materials used in the programme, motivation and registration at the end of the DSD experience. (They can’t supervise, be used as a certified assistant or in any way conduct the experience or any of its elements.)

The registration ratio is very often close to 80% if the emphasis is well positioned (end of the programme).
A closer analysis of German Dive Centres in 2006 has confirmed that the DSD is crucial for the good health of a business.

Centres who conducted the DSD experience and actively promoted the Open Water Diver course during the experience found a significant uplift in their business.

ARE YOU GETTING YOUR SHARE?

PADI has paid more than $1.6 million to dive centers and resorts for their share of eLearning fees and by the end of the year, we anticipate that reaching more than $2 million.

By placing a PADI eLearning banner on your dive centres website you are taking the first step to insure you join other successful PADI members who are sharing the rewards attributed to embracing the PADI eLearning programmes.

The eLearning banners are available for download from the eLearning Toolbox in the PADI Pros Area, “IRRA Members” section; they are listed under the “Tools” heading by following the “Adding PADI eLearning Links to your website” link.