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  CEI (Instructor Training Course)  
             
  Training for guides, dive buddies and dive instructors for the physically handicapped.

Instructor Training Course

The CEI for the IAHD is a comprehensive programme which takes place over three days and is made up of three stages : theory, practical training sessions in the pool and open water training.

Conditions : You must currently be a professional diver (Teaching Status) certified by an internationally recognised dive school. During the course, you will learn to:

 
  • Explain some of the psychological aspects that characterise the physcially handicapped.
  • Recognise the most common disabilities and learn how they affect people diving with their own equipment.
  • Via demonstrations and Pool and Open Water simulations, you will learn how to overcome certain problems that can arise whilst training disabled divers.
  • You will be trained in the various methods of assisting those who are partially sighted, have hearing problems, spinal injuries, amputations, etc…
 
  • You will be taught how to adapt and modify standard diving equipment to suit the needs of disabled divers.
  • You will learn how to best get to know your students, their needs, their attitudes, etc…
  • You will develop your capacity to predict and deal with logistical problems that might arise.