Open Water Diver

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 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. This is a 3 day course that takes place on our Bay of Islands 3-day trips - visit the website for more info or contact the shop. 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.

Whether it was sunk on purpose as an artificial reef or as the result of mishap, wrecks are fascinating dive sites. Most divers find wrecked ships, planes and even automobiles nearly irresistible because they’re enticing to explore, exciting avenues of discovery, and usually teaming with aquatic life. The Wreck Diver course teaches you the ins and outs of rewarding, responsible wreck diving. THis course takes place on our 3 Day Bay of Island s weekends and you must have your Advanced Open Water cert prior to this course and can be combined with a Deep Diver certification.

If you cannot decide which specialty programs are the best choice for you, join the SSI Advanced Open Water Diver program! You will try Deep Diving and Navigation plus a variety of 3 more specialty areas of choice before committing to full specialty training. It is a great way to experience what advanced diver training is all about and how valuable it can be to your diving adventures, not to mention extending your dive depth to 30m. During the Advanced Open Water Diver Program, you will experience 5 different specialties by completing one open water training dive per specialty after a comprehensive briefing with your SSI Instructor. By taking this program you will have total freedom to explore. You can complete the full Specialty trainings any time in the future and credit your Advanced Open Water Diver training towards them.