Monofin

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.

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.

The SSI Basic Freediver Course is your first step into the calm and exhilarating world of freediving. In this introductory course, you'll learn how to safely freedive in a pool with a partner, reaching depths of up to 5 meters. The combination of online training and in-water practice provides all the skills and knowledge you need to become a confident freediver. Upon completion, you will receive your SSI Basic Freediver certification.

SSI's Training Techniques course will help you discover your strengths and weaknesses and create a personalized freediving training plan. In this course, you will learn several valuable freediving training techniques to help you improve your relaxation and increase your dive time. By increasing efficiency and learning techniques used by professionals, you will make faster progress in freediving. SSI's Freediving Training Techniques course will help you discover a new level of breath-holding skills. Get your training techniques professional certification today.

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 will 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 will earn your SSI Deep Diving Specialty certification and be able to explore beautiful deep dive sites wherever you choose. This SSI Specialty is also a prerequisite for some advanced training, making it the next logical step to take in your dive education.

The Divemaster program is the first step of an exciting journey. Earn the respect of your fellow divers and become a diving ambassador by taking the Divemaster program. All you need to get started are 40 verified/registered dives and certifications in Deep Diving, Sailing, Night and 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, 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.

Nature’s best freedivers, like dolphins and whales, have a built-in monofin. Learn to swim just as confidently and powerfully as they do in this unique freediving course. By mastering the monofin swimming technique, you will be able to move effortlessly through the water and enjoy the speed and comfort monofins offer. Discover your inner dolphin and earn your SSI Monofin certification. You can credit your certification toward achieving the coveted Master Freediver rating. Get started today!

Without a doubt, no-fins freediving is the most technical form of freediving. The SSI No-Fins Freediving course is an excellent way to perfect your freediving technique in a fun, challenging environment. Experience the joy of descending into the deep with minimal equipment and mastering the secrets of perfect buoyancy. No-fins freediving will give you a sense of freedom you will never forget. Start your SSI No-Fins Freediving course today.

The SSI Extended Range Nitrox program provides a thorough introduction to the concepts, techniques, and procedures required for decompression diving with nitrox. Designed as either a stand-alone program or a stepping-stone to become an SSI Extended Range Trimix diver, this enriched air diving program provides foundational skills that are the basis for all future technical programs. Using either 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 advanced program will teach you the techniques and procedures for using breathing gases up to 100% oxygen for decompression.

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.

Available Specialties includes: Boat Diving; Computer Diving; Dry Suit Diving; Enriched Air Nitrox; Ecology; Night & Limited Visibility; Perfect Buoyancy; Photo & Video; Search & Recovery; Wreck Diving

The SSI Extended Range Trimix training program is the core program that all other open-circuit programs build on. This program is the start of your exciting journey to become an accomplished tech diver. Using either a sidemount or twinset configuration, this program prepares you to plan and conduct trimix decompression dives to a maximum depth of 45 meters. You will learn the techniques and procedures for using trimix breathing gases and nitrox mixtures of up to 100% oxygen for decompression. You will earn the SSI Extended Range Trimix diver certification after completing this program and gain new tech diver knowledge.

The SSI Decompression Diving specialty will teach you how to dive beyond the limits of decompression. You will learn how to plan and perform diving to a maximum depth of 40 meters with limited decompression using its total recreational diving system and a single decompression tank. You will learn and practice how to efficiently use the features of your dive computer, including gas changes, gas integration, reserve time and time to surface. Using these computer functions will become second nature, allowing you to perform dives with limited decompression without hours of dive planning. Upon completion, you will receive SSI Decompression Diving Specialty certification and will be able to explore impressive deep dive sites or larger wrecks without being restricted by traditional no-decompression limits. The opportunities to expand your diving adventures just got bigger!