About Aquapro Dive Services

Your PADI Course Director is Kevin Burke, a diving professional for 18 years and associated with PADI instructor training for 9. As well as teaching in Europe, Asia, and Australia, he has owned and run his own dive school, is a qualified marine biologist, and holder of a Master Class 5 skippers ticket.

For the last couple of years he has been involved with up to 12 PADI IDC programs a year, and is now associated with different PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Centres both along the east coast of Queensland (in Cairns), and also Thailand. He is also proud of the fact that of all the IDC programs he has run he still has a 100% pass rate. Aquapro now schedules up to 12 IDC programs per year.

Our IDC is different from many of the others you will see advertised. We go above and beyond the minimum requirements set by PADI, and have a proven track record that our unique system works. We have extra academic, confined water, and open water training exceeding the minimum number required by PADI. We will also do a skill assessment and development sessions, to ensure your skill demonstrations are of the highest standard.

We feel our IDC is second to none - it is better value for money than the competition, with pass rates better than most others. We also are the only ones to offer unique traineeships (as opposed to other companies that pay very small amounts of money to "help" you pay off your IDC, whilst all you may do is fill tanks and act as a look out) both in Cairns and Vanuatu. These help you gain valuable experience for free whilst we help you find paid employment as a professional dive instructor.

Our program exposes you to ALL aspects of Instruction, and you will gain REAL hands on experience.