Why Become a DAN Instructor?
When you become a DAN instructor you help build a better trained and skill-equipped diving community. You can develop a highly qualified dive staff, increase your business and show your customers you are committed to safety.
Providing first aid training can help you generate off-season business and diversify your revenue stream. Reaching out to your community at large and teaching them first aid prepares the members of your community to act in an emergency, and it is a great way to introduce them to the world of scuba diving.
After meeting additional prerequisites, you may become a DAN Instructor Trainer. Advance your diving career and help other dive professionals advance theirs by conducting DAN Instructor Qualification Courses.
Strengthen Your Local Community
Reach outside the dive industry and be recognized as an expert in first aid and first aid training by offering DAN First Aid courses to your divers and local community. The skills acquired through DAN’s Instructor and Instructor Trainer programs are ideally suited for training members of sports and recreation leagues, school groups, scouting organizations and volunteer associations. Your expertise in general first aid and CPR will help these groups prepare for accidents or injuries that may occur during their activities.
Be a Leader in the Dive Industry
Divers Alert Network (DAN) has long been recognized as the world’s leading dive safety association. When you become a DAN Instructor or Instructor Trainer, you join us in making our sport safer for all divers by preventing accidents, mitigating risks and sharing DAN programs with your students.
Become a DAN Instructor
- Current DAN Professional Membership
- Active status dive professional (recreational dive master or above),
- Or active status commercial diving Supervisor
- Current CPR provider
- Completion of one of the DAN courses during the IQC meets this requirement as the instructor candidate will be expected to demonstrate all skills and knowledge.
- Provider course completion is recommended but not required in individual courses for which an instructor credential is being pursued. (If the DAN provider-level credential is not current for the specific course, all skills must then be performed and developed to role-model quality as part of the IQC.)
- Find a DAN Instructor Trainer near you to get started.
- Complete the IQC including:
- Core Part 1 training and Core Part 2 discussions
- Instructor Module e-learnings
- IQC program module
- IQC skills workshop
Become a DAN Instructor Trainer
- Current DAN Professional Membership
- Current and active DAN Instructor
- Active teaching-status Assistant Instructor Trainer, IDC Staff Instructor (orequivalent or higher) with a recognized scuba diving certification organization,
- Or be an active-teaching-status instructor trainer with a recognized CPR and first aid agency and a certified diver
- Or be an active teaching commercial diving Supervisor Instructor
- Have conducted at least three (3) DAN first aid provider level courses, as the lead instructor, prior to attending the Instructor Trainer Qualification Course
- At least one of those three courses must have had a minimum of 3 students in a single course.
- One of the courses must be DFA.
- Find a DAN Examiner near you to get started.
- A qualified Instructor Trainer has successfully completed the ITQC.