Explore Azores

Experience your first scuba dive in a truly unique location on Terceira Island. This Try Scuba Diving experience takes place at a real shipwreck within the Underwater Archaeological Park of Angra do Heroísmo.Designed for beginners with no prior experience, this activity follows SSI (Scuba Schools International) standards, ensuring a safe, structured, and high-quality introduction to the underwater world.Your experience begins with a clear and simple briefing where your instructor explains the basic diving principles, equipment, and safety procedures. You will then practice key skills in a controlled environment before heading into open water.The highlight of the experience is a guided dive at the historic Lidador shipwreck, where you will explore a real underwater site surrounded by marine life and volcanic formations. This makes your first dive not just an activity, but a memorable and meaningful experience.Throughout the dive, you will be closely supervised by an SSI-certified instructor, ensuring comfort, safety, and confidence at all times.No prior experience is required—just a sense of adventure.

Dive into the heart of the Atlantic ocean to earn your open water diver certification in a setting like no other.The crystal-clear waters of the Azores reveal unique marine life and flora: observe schools of tropical fish, and explore volcanic seabeds covered in lush underwater vegetation.Guided by a team of dedicated professionals, you will learn essential skills safely in a preserve environment. By the end of this adventure you will receive a lifetime certification valid worldwide, granting you autonomy to dive up to 18 meters anywhere on the globe.Ready to live an amazing underwater experience?

When you become an SSI Freediver, you open the door to worldwide freediving opportunities. Learning to freedive with SSI is easier than you think.In this program, online training, pool/confined water sessions, and open water dives are combined to help you become a confident and safe freediver in no time. Once certified, you can freedive with a buddy in open water up to a depth of 20 meters and explore a variety of stunning underwater ecosystems around the world.

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.

If you can't decide which specialty programs are the best choice for you, sign up for SSI's Advanced Open Water Diver program! With this program you can try a variety of specialties before committing to the full specialty programs. This is the best way to experience what advanced scuba training is and how valuable it can be for your diving adventures. During the Advanced Open Water Diver Program you will try 5 different specialties. Will complete one open water training dive per specialty after a comprehensive meeting with your SSI Instructor. With this expert diving experiential program, you'll have complete freedom to explore. You can complete the full specialty programs at any time in the future and credit them for your Advanced Open Water Diver program training.

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In this specialty program you will gain the advanced skills and knowledge you need to navigate underwater safely and confidently. You will learn how to use a compass and natural navigation techniques, estimate distances, how to leave and return to a certain point, in addition to basic navigation patterns. We will also teach you how to combine navigation techniques to improve your experience. All of this enhances your underwater observation skills, improves dive safety, and helps you get the most out of every dive. Upon completion of the program you will receive the SSI Navigation Specialty certification.

The Assistant Instructor rating is the next step after becoming a Divemaster along the scuba instructor pathway. It allows you to collect valuable teaching experience, practice briefings, teach academics, and conduct in-water training.If you want to further your career as a dive professional, you can finish the Instructor Training Course, pass the Instructor Evaluation, and become an Open Water Diving Instructor.

Get started today - You need to be a Divemaster or equivalent to participate in SSI's 3-Step Instructor Training Approach. The training process starts with the combination of Assistant Instructor / Instructor Training Course, accompanied by Digital Learning. Upon successful completion of the Instructor Training Course (ITC), you will enroll in an Instructor Evaluation (IE) to qualify as an SSI Open Water Instructor. This 10-day training program entitles you to teach several major SSI programs independently, such as Scuba Diver, Open Water Diver, Enriched Air Nitrox, Diver Stress & Rescue, and Dive Guide. For those who wish to dedicate more time to learning and gain valuable teaching experience between training programs, the 3 parts can also be done as single steps – Assistant Instructor, Instructor Training Course (ITC) and Instructor Evaluation (IE), one after the other, at your own pace and with a flexible schedule.

The Divemaster program is the first step of an exciting journey. Earn the respect of your dive partners and become a dive ambassador by taking the Divemaster program. All you need to get started are 40 verified/logged dives and certifications in Deep Diving, Navigation, Night & Limited Visibility or at least 5 verified/logged dives in each area, plus Diver Stress and Rescue. You will be certified as a Dive Guide after successfully completing the Divemaster program. When your interest is to turn your passion into a profession by guiding certified divers, teaching Ecology programs, assisting instructors or even becoming an instructor, your next step is the Divemaster Upgrade with a minimum of 60 logged/verified dives. Upgrade to Divemaster immediately or at any time by studying Science of Diving materials and passing the Digital Final Exam that makes you an SSI Professional. There are thousands of job opportunities around the world for the next generation of highly skilled professionals.