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If you can't decide which specialty program is best for you, join the SSI Advanced Adventure Program! This program allows you to experience a variety of specialties before committing to a full specialty program. It's a great way to experience what advanced diver training is all about and how valuable it can be to your diving adventures. During the Advance Adventure Program, you'll experience five different specialties. After a comprehensive briefing with an SSI Instructor, you'll complete one open water training dive per specialty. With this specialty diving experience program, you have complete freedom to choose your own adventure. At any time in the future, you can apply your Advanced Adventure training as credit toward the Specialty 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.

The SSI Deep Diving Specialty teaches everything you need to dive to depths between 18 meters and 40 meters through a mix of classroom sessions and open-water dives. You'll learn how to plan and safely complete deep diving adventures and get the most out of deep diving through computer and gas consumption calculations. Upon completion, you'll receive your SSI Deep Diving Specialty certification and be able to explore beautiful deep dive sites wherever you want. This SSI Specialty is a prerequisite for some advanced training and is a step toward continuing your dive education.

SSI Divemaster - Become an Underwater Leader Inhale, guide, train: take the step to becoming a professional. How this training changes your diving life The SSI Divemaster is much more than a certification: it's the first step in your professional diving career. You go from being a passionate diver to a recognized leader, capable of coaching, guiding and accompanying others underwater. You'll learn to manage groups, ensure their safety, develop their skills and represent your dive center with professionalism. You'll: Become a model of competence and safety underwater. Accompany and guide certified divers on various sites. Assist SSI instructors in courses and student training. Perfect your demonstration and communication techniques. Develop your leadership, organization and teaching skills. Understand the management of a dive center: logistics, reception, equipment, boat. Practical skills Master fundamental skills (precise and fluid demonstrations). Manage and guide groups underwater (orientation, rhythm, safety). Preparation and organization of dives (briefing, logistics, planning). Assistance during courses: management of students in the pool and in the open water. Supervision of specific SSI programs (e.g. Try Scuba, snorkeling, discovery dives). Management of emergency situations, organization of rescue and on-site leadership. Theoretical knowledge Advanced diving physics and physiology. Tables, computers, gas management and multi-dive planning. Risk management, emergency procedures, first aid. SSI regulations, teaching standards and the role of the Divemaster. Marketing, communication and the commercial role in a dive center. Why the Philippines? Ideal year-round conditions: warm waters, rich reefs, drifting. An international environment: divers from all over the world, varied backgrounds. Total immersion in the real life of an active dive center. Opportunity to gain hands-on professional experience (customer service, organization, boats, travel). Course outline Flexible duration depending on your profile: 4 to 8 weeks (internship or intensive program). Theory: modules on Science of Diving, leadership, SSI standards. Practice: workshops in the pool and at sea (guiding, demonstrations, group management). Field experience: immersion in the Mabuhay Scuba team, real-life customer management. Final assessment: theoretical presentations, skills in the water, real-life situations. Equipment and insurance SSI professional pack (Digital Kit Divemaster). Full equipment recommended (BCD, regulator, computer, compass, light). Rental or purchase possible with special trainee discount. Professional diving insurance recommended. Prerequisites Stress & Rescue SSI certification (or equivalent). Science of Diving SSI certification (or equivalent). Minimum 40 dives to start, 60 dives for certification. Minimum age: 18. What's next? SSI Divemaster certification: first professional level in the diving industry. Possibility of working in SSI centers worldwide. Direct preparation to become Assistant Instructor, then Open Water Instructor. Employment and travel opportunities in an international network.

Start today - You need to be a Divemaster or equivalent to join SSI´s 3-Step Instructor Training Approach. The training process starts with joining the Assistant Instructor / Instructor Training Course combination accompanied with Digital Learning. After 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 various key SSI programs independently like Scuba Diver, Open Water Diver, Enriched Air Nitrox, Diver Stress & Rescue and Dive Guide. For those who want to take more time to learn and to gain valuable teaching experience between the training programs the 3 parts can also be taken as single steps - Assistant Instructor, Instructor Training Course (ITC) and Instructor Evaluation (IE) one after the other at own pace and with a flexible schedule.