About Us
Who We Are
The professional Institute of Dive Educators was founded on one simple principle. “Training the very best instructors” by offering them a unique program that places the importance of recreational SCUBA diving training front and center. Our unique offering provides our students with the opportunity to become a wholly independent instructor who is not reliant on any one agency for services necessary to certify their own students.
Our Approach As an Educator
Instead of holding to any one school of thought, our focus is on bringing the best components of the worlds traditional SCUBA educational concepts into the forefront to make a more perfect methodology for diving training. Many alternative educator training programs require somewhat complex ongoing operations to certify new students of their program participants. This dependency prevents instructors from ever being truly independent, and also creates additional unnecessary work bottlenecks that can have significant affects on training operations in remote areas. Where communication with a home certifying agency for daily efforts is simply unrealistic. Our graduates are truly independent and can certify anyone who completes their programs without involving a 3rd party.
The Institute of Professional Dive Educators is an accredited college, located in Tampa, Florida.
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