React Right is the SSI Emergency First Response course and provides you with the training and knowledge you need to act as a first responder in a medical emergency. In this flexible program, you can choose the topics you want to cover, including initial assessment, first aid, CPR and basic stabilization techniques. You can also learn how to administer oxygen in a diving emergency and the basics of the Automated External Defibrillator (AED). Through theoretical sessions and practical scenarios, this program will give you the confidence you need to intervene in an emergency. Once certified, you'll be able to act as a first responder, providing first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, administering oxygen and providing AED assistance in medical emergencies. Get your React Right SSI specialty certification. Get started today!

React Right is the SSI Emergency First Response course, providing you with the training and knowledge you need to act as a first responder in a medical emergency. In this flexible program, you can choose the topics you want to cover, including initial assessment, first aid, CPR and key stabilization techniques. You can also learn how to administer oxygen in a diving emergency and the basics of the Automated External Defibrillator (AED). Through theoretical sessions and practical scenarios, this program will give you the confidence you need to intervene in an emergency. Once certified, you'll be able to act as a first responder, providing first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, administering oxygen and providing AED assistance in medical emergencies. Get your React Right SSI specialty certification. Get started today!

This world-renowned certification program is the best way to start your adventures of a lifetime as a certified diver. Customized training is combined with in-water practice sessions to give you the skills and experience you need to be truly comfortable underwater. You'll earn your Open Water Diver SSI certification.

In this introductory program, you'll learn everything you need to freedive safely with a buddy in a protected pool/environment to a depth of 5 meters. Online training is combined with in-water practice sessions to give you all the skills and knowledge you need. At the end of the program, you'll receive your Basic Freediver SSI certification.

Take your diving to the next level and develop the skills of a true underwater leader.NAUTILUS DIVING offers a 4-week intensive DIVEMASTER training course in Dakar, Senegal.Sessions available :- August 2026- September 2026- November 2026Limited places: maximum 2 candidates per sessionThis course is designed for motivated divers wishing to :- Develop technical skills, knowledge and confidence- Gain hands-on experience alongside professionals- Discover the realities of the field in a demanding and formative destination- Laying the foundations for a future career in divingPersonalized coaching by an experienced trainer in coach/mentor mode throughout the course.Location: Dakar - SenegalDuration: 4 intensive weeksPrerequisites: Open WaterPrice: €1,830Accommodation and travel not includedSenegal offers varied and instructive diving conditions: current, changing visibility, rich fauna and real professional immersion. A committed experience for rapid progress.Are you ready for adventure, for your future?Information and application: nautilusdakar@gmail.com

In this specialty program, you'll develop the advanced skills and knowledge you need to navigate safely and confidently underwater. You'll learn how to use a compass and natural navigation techniques, estimate distance, leave and return to a designated point, as well as basic navigation patterns. You'll also learn how to combine navigation techniques to enhance your diving experience. All this sharpens your underwater observation skills, improves your diving safety and helps you get the most out of every dive. On completion of this course, you'll be awarded the SSI Navigation specialty certification.

The Dive Guide program is the first step in an exciting project. Learn how to safely guide certified divers in a variety of environments and conditions. By giving dive briefings, conducting site assessments, and leading dives, you'll be a confident dive guide in no time. Start your diving career by working as a Professional Dive Guide or pursue the qualifications to become a Divemaster.

If you're not sure which specialty to choose, choose the SSI Advanced Open Water Diver program! You'll learn about deep diving and navigation, plus a choice of three other specialties, before committing to a full course. It's the ideal way to familiarize yourself with advanced diver training and its importance for your underwater adventures. During the Advanced Open Water Diver program, you'll explore five different specialties by doing a training dive in the open water for each specialty, after a full briefing with your SSI instructor. This program gives you total freedom of exploration. You'll be able to take full specialty courses at a later date, and use your Advanced Open Water Diver training to gain access to them.

As a Nitrox diver, you can increase your dive times and safety margins, and shorten your surface intervals - so you can spend more time diving and less time waiting! In this program, you'll learn new skills and increase your diving knowledge while learning to plan and dive safely with enriched air mixtures containing up to 40% oxygen. On completion of this program, you will be awarded SSI Enriched Air Nitrox 32% or 40% certification.

The SSI Deep Diving Specialty will teach you everything you need to dive to depths between 18 and 40 meters, through a mix of theory sessions and open water dives. You'll learn how to safely plan and execute your deep diving adventures, and how to use computers and gas consumption calculations to get the most out of your deep dives. On completion of this course, you'll receive your Deep Diving SSI Specialty certification and be able to explore beautiful deep dive sites wherever you choose. This SSI Specialty is also a prerequisite for certain additional training courses, making it the next logical step in your diver training.

The SSI Decompression Diving Specialty will teach you to dive beyond the no-decompression limits. You'll learn how to plan and execute dives to a maximum depth of 40 meters with limited decompression, using your recreational diving equipment and a decompression cylinder. You'll learn how to use your dive computer's functions effectively, including gas change, reserve and surface times. Using these computer functions will become second nature, allowing you to safely perform limited decompression dives without having to spend hours planning the dive. Upon completion of this course, you'll earn Decompression Diving SSI certification and be able to explore beautiful deep sites or large wrecks without being restricted by no-decompression limits. The possibilities for your diving adventures have just expanded!

The Perfect Buoyancy SSI specialty is the best way to improve your buoyancy and get the most out of every dive. Buoyancy is an essential diving skill, but any diver will tell you that it takes time to perfect. The Perfect Buoyancy Specialty will teach you advanced buoyancy skills and techniques, so you can master your buoyancy faster and enjoy more relaxed diving adventures. In this fascinating program, you'll also learn new skills that protect the environment and work in all diving situations. Upon completion of this course, you'll earn the Perfect Buoyancy SSI specialty certification. With improved buoyancy skills, you'll soon be able to glide with ease and take the underwater photos you've been dreaming of!

In this specialty program, you'll develop the advanced skills and knowledge you need to navigate safely and confidently underwater. You'll learn how to use a compass and natural navigation techniques, estimate distance, leave and return to a designated point, as well as basic navigation patterns. You'll also learn how to combine navigation techniques to enhance your diving experience. All this sharpens your underwater observation skills, improves your diving safety and helps you get the most out of every dive. On completion of this course, you'll be awarded the SSI Navigation specialty certification.

The SSI Extended Range Foundations program offers all divers the opportunity to take their diving skills to the next level through a series of workshops. Learn more about using tech gear with any full-body diving equipment for which you are certified, and develop your core skills to master buoyancy, equalization, finning techniques, positioning, and communication. The Extended Range Foundations program offers supplemental training to existing certifications to increase the diver’s confidence and mastery in the water. All training dives are conducted in a pool or confined water environment at depths of less than 12 meters/40 feet. You will earn the SSI Extended Range Foundations certification after completing this program.

The SSI Extended Range Trimix training program is the foundation on which all other open circuit programs are built. This program marks the start of an exciting journey towards becoming a fully-fledged technical diver. Whether in sidemount or twin-bottle configuration, this program prepares you to plan and execute trimix decompression dives to a maximum depth of 45 m. You'll learn the techniques and procedures for using trimix and nitrox breathing mixes (up to 100% oxygen) for decompression. At the end of the program, you'll be certified as an SSI Extended Range Trimix diver, and your knowledge of technical diving will be further enhanced.

To optimize your dive time and get the most out of your underwater experiences, try scooter or DPV diving. This scooter and DPV diving course will give you the skills and knowledge you need to plan and execute safe dives. You'll learn the specific precautions to take when using DPVs, how to maintain contact with your buddy and how to control your equipment, so you can fully enjoy the new sensations offered by these machines. The equipment used is SUEX, with a maintenance workshop, theory workshop, one dive in a protected environment and two dives in the open sea. On completion of this course, you'll obtain SSI specialty certification in scooter diving/DPV and be able to dive to a depth of 30 meters on a scooter or DPV.

The SSI Extended Range Nitrox program provides a comprehensive introduction to the concepts, techniques, and procedures necessary for decompression diving with Nitrox. Whether as a standalone course or a stepping stone to becoming an SSI Extended Range Trimix diver, this enriched air diving program provides the fundamental skills that form the foundation for all future technical programs. Using a sidemount or twinset configuration, this program prepares you to plan and conduct limited-decompression dives to a maximum depth of 40 meters. In addition, this program will teach you the techniques and procedures for using breathing gases up to 100% oxygen for decompression.

The Assistant Instructor certification is the next step after the Divemaster in the diving instructor's career. It enables you to gain valuable teaching experience, practice briefings, teach theory courses and conduct in-water training. Training takes place over several weekends or on immersion in our teams - contact us for more information. If you wish to continue your career as a diving professional, you can complete the Instructor Training Course, pass the Instructor Assessment and become an Open Water Diving Instructor.

The Divemaster program is the first step in an exciting adventure. Earn the respect of your buddies and become an ambassador for diving by taking the Divemaster course. To get started, all you need is 40 logged dives and certifications in deep diving, navigation, night diving and low-visibility diving, or at least 5 logged dives in each, as well as stress management and diver rescue training. Upon successful completion of the Divemaster program, you will be certified as a Dive Guide. Training takes place over several weekends or by immersion in our teams; contact us for more information. If you'd like to turn your passion into a profession by guiding certified divers, running ecology programs, assisting instructors or even becoming an instructor yourself, the next step is the Divemaster specialization, which requires a minimum of 60 logged dives. Reach Divemaster status immediately or later by studying the Science of Diving teaching materials and passing the digital final exam that will earn you SSI Professional certification.

Becoming an SSI Specialty Instructor is easy. Continue your diver training as an instructor by enrolling in a Specialty Instructor seminar for each of the diving specialties you wish to teach. You can also co-teach the specialty you're interested in with an experienced Specialty Instructor, or request verification of your experience and send it directly to SSI. The specialties taught at Nautilus are numerous: Deep, Nitrox, Night, Decompression, DPV, Navigation, (Advanced) Wreck, Boat Diving, Computer, Independent, Photo & Video, Sidemount, Science of Diving, Search&Recovery... as well as all ecological specialties. Teach more specialties to automatically qualify as an Advanced Open Water Instructor.

Becoming an SSI React Right Instructor allows you to train divers and non-divers in emergency rescue techniques, increasing your professional value and teaching scope. This one-day certification is essential for instructors wishing to become Divemaster Instructor and progress beyond.

A specialized decompression diving instructor trains experienced divers to teach others how to safely explore no-decompression limits (NDLs). He teaches them to plan and execute dives requiring mandatory stops, using specialized equipment such as decompression cylinders containing richer gases (e.g. EAN40) and dive computers to manage gas changes and ascents. He bridges the gap between recreational diving and technical diving to explore deeper sites such as wrecks and reefs. To become a Specialty Instructor, you need prior technical certification (such as Decompression Diver/Decompression Procedures) and instructor status. Training focuses on advanced dive planning, emergency protocols and buoyancy control during ascent and team stops.

A Scuba Diving Instructor teaches experienced divers how to plan and execute safe dives on their own, using emergency equipment and advanced self-sufficiency techniques for situations such as photography or underwater exploration. To become an instructor, you must complete instructor-level training with SSI, demonstrate mastery of solo diving techniques (planning, gas management, emergency response) and acquire the teaching skills needed to transmit the essential concepts of autonomous diving.

Becoming an underwater propulsion vehicle (DPV) instructor allows a diving professional to certify students in the use of underwater scooters. Specialization as a diver is a prerequisite.

A specialized deep diving instructor teaches certified divers how to safely explore depths beyond recreational limits (typically 18 to 40 meters), focusing on specialized planning, equipment, gas management, non-decompression and nitrogen narcosis management, involving classroom theory, practical skills and open water dives to gain the expertise needed to teach this popular and essential diving certification.

The Instructor Training Course is divided into 2 parts: Assistant Instructor (AI) and Instructor Training Course (ITC). This can be done separately or in sequence. ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR (AI): we offer this course prior to the ITC on a 6-day or 3-weekend course, depending on your availability. As an AI, you'll be able to assist instructors on courses or carry out entry-level training. INSTRUCTOR TRAINING COURSE (ITC): we offer this 8-day course to prepare you to take the INSTRUCTOR EXAM (IE) where an external examiner will come and carry out a final exam over 2 days. Our next ITC is scheduled around October/November 2026 and the final date will be set in early summer. Contact us to take part --- Are you already an experienced instructor with another organization? You could benefit from accelerated training: you would then only have to complete certain parts of the Instructor Training Course (ITC), and then pass the Instructor Evaluation (IE). If you're already certified as an Assistant Instructor with another organization, please contact us. You can continue your career with SSI. Contact us to find out what options are available to you.

Take your diving to the next level and develop the skills of a true underwater leader.NAUTILUS DIVING offers a 4-week intensive DIVEMASTER training course in Dakar, Senegal.Sessions available :- August 2026- September 2026- November 2026Limited places: maximum 2 candidates per sessionThis course is designed for motivated divers wishing to :- Develop technical skills, knowledge and confidence- Gain hands-on experience alongside professionals- Discover the realities of the field in a demanding and formative destination- Laying the foundations for a future career in divingPersonalized coaching by an experienced trainer in coach/mentor mode throughout the course.Location: Dakar - SenegalDuration: 4 intensive weeksPrerequisites: Open WaterPrice: €1,830Accommodation and travel not includedSenegal offers varied and instructive diving conditions: current, changing visibility, rich fauna and real professional immersion. A committed experience for rapid progress.Are you ready for adventure, for your future?Information and application: nautilusdakar@gmail.com

The Assistant Instructor certification is the next step after the Divemaster in the diving instructor's career. It enables you to gain valuable teaching experience, practice briefings, teach theory courses and conduct in-water training. Training takes place over several weekends or on immersion in our teams - contact us for more information. If you wish to continue your career as a diving professional, you can complete the Instructor Training Course, pass the Instructor Assessment and become an Open Water Diving Instructor.

In Senegal, the International Waterfowl Census (IWC) has become an official activity coordinated by the National Parks Department with the participation of several partners. The data collected is fed into national and international databases, enabling us to identify trends and threats to wetlands before they turn into disasters. The main objectives of the IWC are: - to estimate the population size of the bird species observed; - to establish the evolutionary trends of the different bird species observed; - to help decision-making on wetland management. These objectives contribute to more effective conservation of Biodiversity in general, and of waterbirds and their habitats in particular. As usual, this activity takes place on January 15 each year at all the sites of the Direction des parcs nationaux. For the Parc des Îles de la Madeleine, the Nautilus makes one of its boats and its team available free of charge to the park rangers who will be carrying out the counting activity.

Dive centers often talk about protecting the ocean while using massive amounts of plastic; at Nautilus Diving Dakar, our March operation aims to be consistent by removing this plastic from the center, a concrete step which should make it possible to avoid around 500 kg of waste per year and show that there are solutions even in emerging countries.

Night dive at NGor open to Night specialty training, certified night divers and advanced divers with previous night diving experience. Meet at 7pm at La Madrague in N'Gor.

N'Gor Bay is home to several green turtles. We quietly go out to meet them, keeping our distance and taking photos. The outing includes certification in SSI's Turtle Ecological Specialty.