Fin Divers, Matt Bacon

It is easy for dive skills to get rusty and to lose confidence when you have not dived for a while. With the SSI Scuba Skills Update, we will get you back in the water and diving with ease in no time. This scuba refresher course allows you to review and practice scuba skills you learned in your Open Water Diver program, under the guidance of an SSI Professional. This is a great course to take just before a dive holiday, so you spend less time worrying about your skills and more time admiring the marine life. If you are a non-certified Open Water Diver student, a Scuba Skills Update is ideal for practicing your dive skills before your open water training dives. With no fixed course duration, you can take your time and focus on the skills you need help with.

The SSI Try Scuba program is the best way to try scuba diving for the first time. You will be in confined water and well looked after by your instructor, so you can enjoy those first unforgettable breaths underwater and experience the magic of scuba diving. At the end of this short course, you will have earned your SSI Try Scuba recognition card and undoubtedly want to go diving again. Endless scuba diving adventures are waiting for you and this course is where it all begins. Start today!

Become a certified Open Water Diver with SSI 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. We have three options available to you giving flexibility about how you want to complete your qualification. - Full Course - this is the complete course which includes all pool sessions, academics, final exam and four qualifying dives. At the end of this course, you will be qualified to dive with an equally qualified buddy. - Referral - completes all academics, pool sessions and final exam. This is often popular with divers wishing to complete their course on holiday. - Referral Upgrade - is the four open water dives needed for qualification.

As a Nitrox diver, you can increase your bottom times and safety margins, plus shorten your surface intervals - so you can spend more time diving and less time waiting! In this program, you will learn new skills and increase your diving knowledge whilst learning how to safely plan and dive with enriched air mixtures of up to 40% oxygen. Upon completion, you will earn an SSI Enriched Air Nitrox 32% or 40% certification.

The SSI SCR Extended Range program introduces you to diving beyond the no-decompression limit. You will learn the concepts of self-sufficiency and redundancy that are essential when conducting a rebreather dive. Learn to independently plan and conduct decompression dives to a maximum depth of 40 meters using the Mares Horizon semi-closed rebreather. Become a completely self-sufficient rebreather diver with SSI’s unique SCR rebreather training techniques and skills. Learn rebreather dive planning, in-water skills, problem-solving techniques, and emergency scenario management. Take your rebreather training to its highest level with this SCR training program today!

The SSI CCR Extended Range program builds upon skills and techniques learned as a basic rebreather diver by increasing depth, duration, introducing decompression, and adding more complex skills. Training is available using rEvo CCR rebreathers. SSI has developed this unit-specific program to use trimix as the breathing gas to reduce gas density and increase diver safety. Your CCR Extended Range certification qualifies you to conduct decompression dives to a maximum depth of up to 40 meters using a trimix diluent. Take your diving to the next level with the exciting world of rebreathers. Get started online today!Facts and Training StandardsAmount of Academic Sessions - 8Amount of Pool/Confined Water Sessions - 1Amount of Open Water Sessions - 6Maximum Training Depth -40 m / 130 ftSuggested duration (h) - 40

The SSI CCR Extended Range program builds upon skills and techniques learned as a basic rebreather diver by increasing depth, duration, introducing decompression, and adding more complex skills. Training is available using rEvo CCR rebreathers. SSI has developed this unit-specific program to use trimix as the breathing gas to reduce gas density and increase diver safety. Your CCR Extended Range certification qualifies you to conduct decompression dives to a maximum depth of up to 40 meters using a trimix diluent. Take your diving to the next level with the exciting world of rebreathers. Get started online today!Facts and Training StandardsAmount of Academic Sessions - 8Amount of Pool/Confined Water Sessions - 1Amount of Open Water Sessions - 6Maximum Training Depth -40 m / 130 ftSuggested duration (h) - 40Student PrerequisitesOption 1Have logged at least:30 total dives with a minimum cumulative time of 25 hours.5 dives deeper than 30 meters requiring staged decompression.Have the following SSI certifications or an equivalent from a recognised training agency:Enriched Air Nitrox 40Deep DivingExtended Range Nitrox DivingOption 2Have logged at least:20 CCR dives on the applicable unit with a minimum cumulative time of 30 hours.Have one of the following SSI certifications or an equivalent from a recognised training agency:CCR DivingSCR Extended RangeCost of the course does not include:Unit and cylinder rentalSofnolimeGasPark/Boat feesSurcharges for accommodation or fuel may be chargeable depending on location of training. This will be discussed in advance.CCR Extended Range certification entitles the holder to dive with an equally or more qualified buddy, on dives using specialised diving equipment and procedures to depths of up to 40m (using air) and requiring staged decompression stops of no longer than 10 minutes, providing that dives are conducted in environments similar to those of the diver's training and experience.

As a Nitrox diver, you can increase your bottom times and safety margins, plus shorten your surface intervals - so you can spend more time diving and less time waiting! In this program, you will learn new skills and increase your diving knowledge whilst learning how to safely plan and dive with enriched air mixtures of up to 40% oxygen. Upon completion, you will earn an SSI Enriched Air Nitrox 32% or 40% certification.

As a Nitrox diver, you can increase your bottom times and safety margins, plus shorten your surface intervals - so you can spend more time diving and less time waiting! In this program, you will learn new skills and increase your diving knowledge whilst learning how to safely plan and dive with enriched air mixtures of up to 40% oxygen. Upon completion, you will earn an SSI Enriched Air Nitrox 32% or 40% certification.

Becoming an SSI Specialty Instructor is easy. Continue your diving education as an instructor by enrolling in a Specialty Instructor Seminar for each of the diving specialties you would like to teach. Alternatively, you can co-teach the specialty you are interested in with an experienced Specialty Instructor or request a Verification Application of your experience and send it directly to SSI. Teach more specialties to automatically earn the Advanced Open Water Instructor certification.