DAN Instructor Qualification Course

As a DAN Instructor, you can offer your students eleven classes that will help make them safer divers. These classes are: (1) Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries, (2) Oxygen First Aid for Aquatic Emergencies, (3) Advanced Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries, (4) First Aid for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries, (5) Automated External Defibrillators for Scuba Diving, (6) Automated External Defibrillators for Aquatic Emergencies, (7) Basic Life Support for Dive Professional, (8) Remote Emergency Medical Oxygen, (9) On-Site Neurological Assessment for Divers, (10) Diving First Aid for Professional Divers, and (11) the Diving Emergency Management  Provider Program.

DAN Instructors are scuba diving educators who want to offer dive safety programs to their students. To become a DAN Instructor, you must participate in a DAN Instructor Qualification Course (IQC).

The IQC follows a modular format. There is a Core Module and then a separate module representing each training program. You can take all nine modules as part of one course, or just take the Core Module and one course module - whatever you are interested in teaching. Later, as long as you remain a current and active DAN Instructor, you can take additional modules without retaking the Core Module.

Prerequisites for DAN Instructor Qualification Course:
DAN Member
Active scuba diving educator*
Current CPR Instructor
Documentation of First Aid training

Course Objective
The DAN Instructor Qualification Course (IQC) trains and educates qualified scuba diving educators to plan, manage, conduct and promote dive safety through DAN Training Programs such as the Oxygen First Aid for Scuba Diving Injuries course, the Remote Emergency Medical Oxygen (REMO2™) course, the Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) for Scuba Diving and the First Aid
for Hazardous Marine Life Injuries course along with the Oxygen First Aid for Aquatic Emergencies course.

In addition, the course develops role-model teaching techniques in the use of first aid for suspected dive injuries. Instructor Candidates also have the opportunity to develop further knowledge in relation to the special considerations involved in providing emergency first aid.

Qualifications of DAN Instructors
Successful completion of the DAN Instructor Qualification Course (IQC) results in certification recognizing the Instructor Candidate's understanding and performance of the knowledge and skills contained within this program.