Open Water Diver

Diving skills easily become rusty and after a while you lose confidence in your own abilities. An SSI Scuba Skills Update will get you back in the water and back to your old strength in no time at all. In the refresher course, you repeat and practise the diving skills from your Open Water Diver program under the guidance of an SSI professional. However, a scuba skills update is not only a relaxed way to refresh your diving skills, but often also a prerequisite for resuming diving training after a break. If you don't want to worry about your skills on your diving vacation and would rather enjoy the underwater world instead, take the course shortly before your trip. The course is also ideal for Open Water Diver students to consolidate their diving skills before open water dives. The flexible course duration allows you to take your time and concentrate on your weaknesses.

The Dive Guide course is the first step on an exciting journey, learning to safely guide certified divers in a variety of environments and conditions. Through dive briefings, assessing dive conditions and leading dives, you will develop into a confident dive guide in no time. Start your professional diving career as a Dive Guide or continue to qualify as a Divemaster.

In this exciting SSI Mermaid course, you’ll learn how to swim like a mermaid or a merman! This training will give you the knowledge and skills to have the best possible experiences in the water, feel truly comfortable in the water, and use your equipment to its full potential. Once you’re certified as an SSI Mermaid, the next logical step is to continue your adventures in the ocean! With just two additional open-water sessions, you can upgrade to become an SSI Ocean Mermaid. Get started today!

The SSI Freediver opens the door to freediving activities around the world. Learning to freedive with SSI is easier than you think. This program combines online training, pool and open water dives to make you a confident and safe freediver in no time. Once certified, you'll be able to dive with a buddy in open water to a depth of 20 meters and explore a variety of stunning underwater ecosystems around the world. Start online today. Saturday: Scubanautic Tauchsport, St. Pölten Sunday: Lake Neufeldersee

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With the SSI Try Scuba course, you can experience your first unforgettable breaths underwater. With an instructor by your side, you’ll dive carefree in confined open water and experience the magic of scuba diving. At the end of this short course, you’ll have earned your SSI Try Scuba certification card and will surely be eager to go on your next dive. Countless diving adventures await you, and this course is just the beginning. Get started today!

You’re about to embark on one of the greatest adventures of your life. By deciding to learn to dive, you’re embarking on an exciting journey that will show you the world from a new perspective and give you the opportunity to explore the last “great unknown” of our planet—the ocean. As a diver, you’ll explore the wonders of a weightless underwater world, encounter incredible marine life, and discover shipwrecks and ecosystems hidden deep beneath the surface. The combination of personalized instruction and hands-on training sessions ensures that you acquire the skills and experience of a confident, safe diver. Upon completion, you will receive the globally recognized SSI Open Water Diver certification.

The SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty course is the best way to improve your buoyancy and experience perfect dives. Buoyancy control is one of the most important diving skills, but as any experienced diver will tell you, it takes time to perfect. In this course, you will learn advanced buoyancy skills and techniques to help you master your buoyancy faster. By improving your water position and optimizing your buoyancy control, you can reduce your air consumption and increase your bottom times. In this fascinating course you will also learn new skills to protect the underwater world, which can always be used. At the end of the course you will receive the SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty certification. Well-balanced, you will soon be gliding calmly through the water, taking the underwater photos you've always dreamed of or simply enjoying the weightlessness.

This specialty course provides you with the knowledge and advanced skills you need to navigate safely and confidently underwater. You will learn the correct use of the compass, natural navigation techniques, estimating distances, leaving and returning to a given point and simple navigation patterns. You will also learn how to combine navigation techniques to optimize your diving experience. All of this will sharpen your underwater observation skills, increase your diving safety and help you get the most out of every dive. Upon completion of the course, you will receive the SSI Navigation Specialty certification.

As a dry suit diver you can dive warm and comfortable in cold waters all year round. Only dry suit diving opens up the special underwater landscapes of cold water to you: dives on the icebergs in the remote Arctic or fascinating places teeming with life despite the cold. Dry suits are also great if you dive several times a day. Instead of struggling to get out of the cold, wet wetsuit each time, the dry suit diver simply leaves his suit on. The best way to dry suit dive is the SSI Dry Suit Diver Specialty course. Here you will gain the necessary knowledge and learn all the skills you need to dive safely and comfortably in a dry suit. This includes how to use the special equipment and how to deal with difficult situations and problems with the dry suit. At the end of the course you will receive the SSI Dry Suit Diving Specialty certification.

If you can't decide which specialty programs are best for you, join the SSI Advanced Open Water Diver program! You will try Deep Diving and Navigation as well as 3 other specialty areas before deciding on a full specialty training. It's a great way to experience what Advanced Open Water Diver training is all about and how valuable it can be to your diving adventures.During the Advanced Open Water Diver program you will learn 5 different specialties by completing one open water training dive per specialty after a detailed briefing with your SSI Instructor. With this program, you have complete freedom to explore everything. You can complete the entire specialty training at any time and receive credit for your Advanced Open Water Diver training.

Als Tieftaucher hast du die einmalige Gelegenheit einige der besten Tauchplätze der Welt und die beliebtesten Meeresbewohner zu entdecken. Es gibt so viel, was im tiefen blauen Meer auf dich wartet. In einer ausgewogenen Kombination aus Theorieeinheiten und Freiwassertauchgängen lernst du im SSI Deep Diving Specialty Kurs alles, was du für Tauchgänge zwischen 18 und 40 Metern benötigst. Du wirst lernen, deine Tieftauchabenteuer zu planen und sicher durchzuführen und mit Hilfe von Tauchcomputern und Gasverbrauchsberechnungen das Maximum aus deinen Tieftauchgängen herauszuholen. Nach Abschluss des Kurses erhältst du deine SSI Deep Diving Specialty Zertifizierung und kannst die schönsten Tieftauchplätze zu erkunden, wo immer du willst. Dieses SSI Specialty ist auch eine Voraussetzung für andere weiterführende Ausbildungskurse und macht es damit zum nächsten logischen Schritt in deiner Tauchausbildung.@ Girandella Diving

Nachttauchgänge verlangen ganz andere Fertigkeiten als Tauchgänge bei Tageslicht. Der SSI Night Diving & Limited Visibility Specialty Kurs ist der beste Weg, um alles über das Nachttauchen zu lernen und die erforderlichen Techniken zu üben, die dich zu einem sicheren und selbstbewussten Nachttaucher machen. In diesem Kurs werden dir alle Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten vermittelt, um bei Nacht oder unter eingeschränkten Sichtverhältnissen sicher und entspannt zu tauchen. In einer ausgewogenen Mischung von Online Learning und Freiwassertauchgängen lernst du den Umgang mit Spezialausrüstung, die korrekten Ein- und Ausstiegstechniken und erfährst, wie du bei Nacht und eingeschränkter Sicht mit deinem Tauchpartner kommunizieren kannst. Nach Abschluss des Kurses erhältst du die SSI Night Diving and Limited Visibility Specialty Zertifizierung und bist bereit, voller Selbstvertrauen in die Dunkelheit abzutauchen.@ Girandella Diving

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