Basic Diver (Try diving)

Join the SSI Basic Diver program and you can try diving in confined and open water whilst exploring the underwater world – without committing to a longer course. It’s a great way to learn beginner dive skills and go open water diving for the first time.   If you want to try diving in confined and open waters, without committing to a longer program, the SSI Basic Diver program is for you. You’ll learn the skills and knowledge you need to try diving up to 12 meters deep with an SSI Professional. It’s a great way to explore the underwater world around you more fully as you try diving.   The entire Basic Diver program can be credited towards the Scuba Diver or Open Water Dive programs within 6 months, so you can take the next step in your dive adventure.

• Minimum age: 10
• Prerequisites: none
• Academic Sessions: 1
• Confined Sessions: 1
• Open Water Dives: 1
• Duration: 1 day

Open Water Diver

If you want to dive anywhere you want, with anyone you want, join the Open Water Diver program. This globally recognized certification program is the best way to begin your lifelong adventures as a certified scuba diver. Personalized training is combined with in-water practice sessions to ensure you have the skills and experience required to become truly comfortable underwater. You will earn the SSI Open Water Diver certification.

• Minimum age: 10
• Prerequisites: none
• Academic Sessions: 6
• Confined Sessions: 2
• Open Water Dives: 4
• Duration: 3 days
• 1 Free T-Shirt
• 2 Free Fun dives

1 Refresher

It’s easy for dive skills to get rusty and to lose confidence when you’ve not dived for a while. This scuba refresher course is a safe and fun way to practice dive skills with an SSI professional and is often required to continue your diving training after time away from the sport.

• Minimum age: 10
• Prerequisites: Basic / Scuba / OW Diver
• Confined Sessions: 1
• Open Water Dives: 2
• Duration: 1 day

Advanced Adventurer

The best thing about the Advance Adventurer course is that it consist mostly practical training. It implies that you will spent most of your time underwater, having fun with your instructor. The course consists of 5 specialty dives,  2 of which are mandatory:

• Deep dive
• Navigation dive

• Perfect buoyancy
• Enriched air Nitrox
• Wreck diving
• Night & limited visibility
• Underwater photography and videography

• Minimum age: 15
• Prerequisites: OWD
• Academic Sessions: none
• Open Water Dives: 5
• Duration: 2 days
• 2 Free Fun Dives
• 1 Free T-Shirt

React Right

Learn how to manage dive emergencies and treat injuries as a first responder with our React Right Specialty. In this emergency first response course, you’ll learn about first aid and CPR skills, stabilization techniques, oxygen administration, Automated External Defibrillation basics and more.

• Minimum age: 12
• Prerequisites: none
• Academic Sessions: 6
• Open Water Dives: none
• Duration: 1 day
• 1 Free T-Shirt

Diver Stress & Rescue

Diver stress is a major cause of diving accidents, but it can easily be prevented and resolved. Learn to identify stress, how to prevent accidents, and learn rescue diver skills with the SSI Diver Stress and Rescue Specialty program. Help yourself and other divers to stay safe. The SSI Diver Stress and Rescue Specialty program is the best course for learning the skills needed to protect yourself and other divers. You’ll learn how to identify stress, how to prevent accidents and be taught practical techniques to conduct rescues and provide emergency care. With a combination of pool and open water practice sessions, you’ll become well prepared and confident at handling emergency and rescue situations.

• Minimum age: 15
• Prerequisites: OWD + React Right
• Academic Sessions: 6
• Confined Sessions: 3
• Open Water Dives: 3
• Duration: 2 days
• 1 Free T-Shirt

React Right + Diver Stress & Rescue

• Minimum age: 15
• Prerequisites: OWD
• Academic Sessions: 12
• Confined Sessions: 3
• Open Water Dives: 3
• Duration: 3 days
• 1 Free T-Shirt

Deep Diving

Are you ready to become a deep diver and explore deeper wrecks, coral-encrusted walls, reefs and more? Many exciting dive sites lie in deep waters and the SSI Deep Diving Specialty will teach you how to get there – safely and with confidence. As a deep diver, you’ll get to discover some of the world’s best dive sites and most sought-after marine life. There is so much waiting for you in the deep blue sea. The SSI Deep Diving Specialty will teach you all you need to dive to depths between 18 and 40 meters, through a mixture of academic sessions and open water dives. You’ll learn to plan and safely complete your deep diving adventures and use computers and gas consumption calculations to get the most from your deep dives. Upon completion, you’ll earn your SSI Deep Diving Specialty certification and be able to explore beautiful deep dive sites wherever you choose.

• Minimum age: 15
• Prerequisites: OWD
• Academic Sessions: 5
• Open Water Dives: 3
• Duration: 5-10 hours
• 1 Free T-Shirt

Navigation

Underwater navigation is a crucial dive skill, but it doesn’t need to be difficult. Become a better, more confident diver who always knows where they’re going, with the SSI Navigation Specialty. In this specialty program, you’ll gain the advanced skills and knowledge you need to safely and confidently navigate underwater. You’ll learn how to use a compass and natural navigation techniques, estimate distance, how to leave and return to a designated point, plus basic navigation patterns. You will also be taught how to combine navigation techniques to enhance your diving experience. All of which hones your underwater observation skills, improves your dive safety and helps you to get the most out of every dive.

• Minimum age: 15
• Prerequisites: OWD
• Academic Sessions: 5
• Open Water Dives: 2
• Duration: 5-10 hours

Enriched Air Nitrox

Do you want to extend your dive time, shorten your surface intervals and explore the dive sites you love for longer? Join the SSI Enriched Air Nitrox Specialty program and become a nitrox diver. As a Nitrox diver, you can increase your bottom times and safety margins, plus shorten your surface intervals - so you can spend more time exploring the dive sites you love and less time waiting to dive. It’s the perfect course to get the most out of your dive time, especially on multi-dive days, and helps minimize diver fatigue. In this program, you’ll learn new skills and increase you diving knowledge whilst learning how to safely plan and dive with enriched air mixtures of up to 40% oxygen.

• Minimum age: 15
• Prerequisites: OWD
• Academic Sessions: 3
• Open Water Dives: none
• Duration: 3-6 hours

Enriched Air Nitrox

This program includes 2 open wared dives.

• Minimum age: 15
• Prerequisites: OWD
• Academic Sessions: 3
• Open Water Dives: 2
• Duration: 1 day
• Include 1 Tank of Nitrox
• 1 Free T-Shirt
• 1 Sail-rock

Wreck Diving

Do you want to explore iconic towering shipwrecks? Or dive over World War airplanes covered in vibrant marine life? Discover the world of wreck diving and get started today with this SSI wreck diving course. Many of the ocean’s best dive sites are wrecks. These impressive structures attract unusually high densities of marine life and give you the chance to immerse in living history as you dive. There is nothing quite like wreck diving and the SSI Wreck Diving Specialty will give you all the skills and knowledge you need to become a safe and confident wreck diver. With a combination of academic and confined water sessions, you’ll be taught how to safely conduct non-penetration dives around wrecks and artificial reefs, up to a depth of 30 meters. You’ll also get to practice your wreck diving skills during open water training dives. All of which will ensure you can enjoy wreck diving with confidence and get the most out of every dive.

• Minimum age: 15
• Prerequisites: OWD + Wreck Diving
• Academic Sessions: 4
• Open Water Dives: 2
• Duration: 5-10 hours
• 1 Free T-Shirt

Advanced Wreck Diving

Descend into the world of wreck diving. Becoming an Extended Range wreck diver is the start of a fantastic adventure. The SSI Extended Range Wreck Diving certification provides all you need to plan and conduct wreck penetration dives within the light zone to depths shallower than 40 meters. Learn to use specialized wreck diving equipment, gas management concepts and buddy team skills to safely conduct wreck penetration dives.

• Minimum age: 15
• Prerequisites: OWD + Wreck Diving
• Minimum logged dives: 24
• Academic Sessions: 7
• Confined Sessions: 1
• Open Water Dives: 4
• Duration: 12 hours
• 1 Free T- Shirt

Night & Limited Visibility

Night diving requires different skills from diving during the day. The SSI Night Diving and Limited Visibility Specialty is the best way to learn about night diving and practice the techniques you’ll need to become a safe and confident night diver. In this program, you’ll be provided with all the knowledge and skills you need to safely and comfortably dive at night or in limited visibility conditions. With a combination of online learning and open water training dives, you’ll learn how to enter and exit the water, use specialized equipment, and how to communicate with your buddy easily at night or in limited visibility.

• Minimum age: 15
• Prerequisites: OWD
• Academic Sessions: 5
• Open Water Dives: 2
• Duration: 5-10 hours
• 1 Free T-Shirt

Underwater Photo & Video

Underwater photography has some challenges not found on land, but with the SSI Photo & Video Specialty program, you’ll soon learn how to capture your amazing underwater experiences. This program provides all you need to dive with an underwater camera and gives you the in-depth knowledge you need to properly use, maintain and store your equipment. You’ll develop the skills and techniques needed to safely and comfortable capture underwater images and video, plus perfect your diving abilities while using your underwater camera system. You will be taught how to capture high quality images that you can share with everyone and earn your SSI Photo & Video Specialty certification.

• Minimum age: 15
• Prerequisites: OWD
• Academic Sessions: 6
• Open Water Dives: 2
• Duration: 5-10 hours

Perfect Buoyancy

The SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty is the best way to improve your buoyancy and get the most from every dive. Buoyancy is an essential dive skill, but any diver will tell you it takes time to perfect. The Perfect Buoyancy specialty will teach you advanced buoyancy skills and techniques so you can master your buoyancy more quickly and enjoy more relaxed dive adventures. With improved body position in the water and better buoyancy control, you’ll reduce your air consumption and increase your bottom times. With better buoyancy skills, you’ll soon be able to hover with ease, take the underwater photographs you dream of and explore the ocean effortlessly.

• Minimum age: 15
• Prerequisites: OWD
• Academic Sessions: 4
• Open Water Dives: 2
• Duration: 5-10 hours
• 1 Free T- Shirt

Search and Recovery

You will be taught how to use search patterns, specialized dive plans and equipment such as lift bags, lines and reels. By developing your search and communication techniques and practicing searches in a dive team, you will become a confident search and rescue diver in no time. Upon completion, you will earn the SSI Search & Recovery specialty certification.

• Minimum age: 12
• Confined water dives: 1
• Open water dives: 2
• Duration: 2 days

Science of Diving

The SSI Science of Diving Specialty is the best program to learn in-depth information about diving physics, physiology and your dive equipment. You’ll acquire the knowledge you need to begin your dive professional career and earn the SSI Science of Diving Specialty certification. Required training for most SSI Professional programs, as well as some Extended Range programs, it is an essential way to expand your dive knowledge. Available online, you can earn your SSI Science of Diving Specialty certification from home. Expand your dive knowledge and gain a better understanding of your equipment, physics, the aquatic environment and more with the online SSI Science of Diving Specialty.

• Minimum age: 15
• Prerequisites: OWD
• Academic Sessions: 5
• Open Water Dives: none
• Duration: 8-12 hours

Independent Diver

This is the perfect course for the underwater photographer and videographer as well as divers wishing to expand knowledge and comfort while diving.

• Minimum age: 18
• Prerequisites: OWD + Deep + Navigation + Night & Limited Visibility + Diver Stress & Rescue
• Minimum logged dives: 75
• Confined water dives: 1
• Open water dives: 2
• Duration: 2 days
• 1 Free T-Shirt