You’re thrilled with snorkeling in the Red Sea and wondering what it’s like to breathe underwater? Then you should just give it a try and join us for a try dive.
Through online learning and dives in both open water and confined water, the SSI Scuba Diver course provides you with the perfect foundation to become an independent and confident diver. You’ll learn everything you need for open water dives up to a maximum depth of 12 meters, together with an SSI Professional. With this course, you complete about half of the Open Water Diver course and can later upgrade your certification to Open Water Diver. To do so, you just need to complete the remaining theory and confined water sessions, along with two training dives in open water.
In this refresher course, you will review and practice the diving skills from your Open Water Diver program under the guidance of an SSI Professional. However, a Scuba Skills Update is not just a relaxed method to refresh your diving skills but often a requirement to resume diving education after a break. If you don’t want to worry about your skills during your diving vacation and would rather enjoy the underwater world, take the course at the beginning of your trip. Let us know what you want to practice so you can focus on your weaknesses, and we’ll help you gain more confidence.
The SSI Advanced Adventurer course provides insights into various aspects of recreational diving and gives you the opportunity to try 5 specialties. You are free to choose which specialties you want to explore – Navigation Diving, Perfect Buoyancy, Fish Identification, and many more. Our recommendation: Definitely choose the Deep Dive. This way, you can explore the oceans up to a depth of 30 meters in the future.
The SSI Diver Stress and Rescue Course is the best course to learn how to protect yourself and other divers. You will learn how to recognize stress, prevent accidents, and apply practical techniques for conducting rescues and emergency care.
What if something happens? Stress negatively impacts our judgment and becomes one of the main causes of diving accidents, making rescue situations more challenging. This program provides the necessary knowledge and skills to recognize stress, prevent accidents, and respond appropriately in emergency situations.
What you will learn:
As a deep diver, you have the unique opportunity to explore some of the best dive sites in the world and encounter popular marine creatures. There’s so much waiting for you in the deep blue sea, below 18 meters.
Take part in an Enriched Air Nitrox Specialty course if you want to shorten your surface intervals and extend your dive time. This way, you’ll spend more time exploring your favorite dive sites instead of waiting around!
The SSI Enriched Air Nitrox program teaches you how to safely plan and conduct dives using enriched air blends with up to 40% oxygen. Compared to air, diving with enriched air (EAN) extends your no-decompression limits and safety while reducing your surface intervals compared to air.
You will learn the correct use of the compass, techniques for natural navigation, estimating distances, exiting and returning to a specific point, as well as simple navigation patterns. You will also learn how to combine navigation techniques to optimize your diving experience. All of this sharpens your observation skills underwater, increases your dive safety, and helps you make the most of every dive.
Buoyancy control is one of the most important diving skills, but every experienced diver will confirm that perfecting it takes some time. In this course, you will learn advanced buoyancy skills and techniques. By improving your body position in the water and optimizing buoyancy control, you can reduce your air consumption and extend your bottom times. In this essential course, you will also learn new skills to protect the underwater world, which can always come in handy. Being well-balanced, you’ll soon glide effortlessly through the water, take the underwater photos you’ve always dreamed of, or simply enjoy the weightlessness.
The SSI Computer Diving program shows you the functions and capabilities of various dive computers and explains how to use these functions before, during, and after your dive. Often, divers buy a computer and only use it for basic information. Get the most out of your investment by learning how to optimize the use of your dive computer.
The sea is full of dive sites, and many top spots are only accessible by boat. If you want to explore these incredible dive sites, become an SSI Boat Diver.
Limited Visibility
Night dives require completely different skills than dives during daylight. The SSI Night Diving & Limited Visibility Specialty course is the best way to learn all about night diving and practice the necessary techniques that will make you a safe and confident night diver.
This program provides the necessary knowledge and skills for safe and comfortable night or limited visibility diving. Your dives don’t have to end at sunset because some of the most amazing ocean creatures appear only at night. You will learn how to handle special equipment, the correct entry and exit techniques, and how to communicate with your dive buddy at night and in limited visibility.
Sidemount Diving
What is already common practice in cave and wreck diving is now also being discovered by more and more recreational divers: the simple, pleasant, and weightless diving experience without feeling the burden of the dive gear on your back – who wouldn’t want to have this experience at least once? To safely conduct these types of dives, special training is required. This is offered through the SSI Recreational Sidemount Specialty course.
Divers love coral reefs, and with good reason. Gliding over a healthy reef where underwater life thrives is something magical. These valuable ecosystems are fascinating, and the SSI Coral Identification Specialty course is the best way to learn more about coral reefs and make the most out of your reef dives.
In this specialty course, you will learn skills and methods to identify and name the most important coral species.
The world’s oceans are home to countless species of fish, and on your dives, you’ll encounter many fascinating marine creatures!
This program teaches a general understanding of the complex and exciting interconnections within marine ecosystems. This includes how organisms interact with each other and their environment, the flow of energy through communities, and the connectivity of ocean ecosystems.
You would like to learn more about the ecology, biology, and conservation of marine mammals? This SSI program familiarizes you with the wonders of these amazing creatures. Dive into the world of whales, dolphins, and seals and explore this incredibly diverse group of marine animals.
In the SSI Shark Ecology course, you’ll learn to interpret shark behavior, why they are often misunderstood, and how to dive safely with them.
In the SSI Shark Ecology course, you’ll learn to interpret shark behavior, why they are often misunderstood, and how to dive safely with them. It’s the perfect course for shark enthusiasts as well as for divers who are afraid of sharks and want to overcome this fear.
(First aid course)
React Right is the SSI emergency course that teaches you the knowledge and practical skills to act correctly as a first responder in a medical emergency.
In this flexible course, you can choose your topics, such as initial assessment, first aid, CPR, and stabilization techniques. You will learn more about administering emergency oxygen and using the defibrillator (AED). With a combination of theory and practical training scenarios, this course provides you with important tools and confidence for emergency assistance. Once certified, you can act as a first responder, provide first aid and CPR, administer oxygen, and provide AED support.
The correct mixing of gases is essential for safe breathing underwater. The SSI Gas Blender course teaches you the skills and concepts required for safely blending nitrox and helium-based trimix gases.
This non-diving program is open to certified and non-certified divers, teaching the correct application of mathematics, gas blending software, physics, and techniques necessary for safely blending breathing gases.
The SSI Extended Range Foundations course offers you the opportunity to expand your already advanced diving skills in a workshop atmosphere. You will learn more about the use of technical equipment in conjunction with the equipment configuration for which you are already certified.
Building on your basic skills, you will perfect buoyancy control, trim, finning techniques, positioning and communication. The Extended Range Foundations course is an additional training to existing certifications and aims to increase the diver’s confidence and control in the water. All training dives are conducted in a limited open water environment above 12 meters.
The SSI Extended Range Nitrox course provides you with a comprehensive introduction to the concepts, techniques, and procedures necessary for planning decompression dives with Nitrox.
The SSI Extended Range program is the core program upon which all other SSI XR Open-Circuit programs are built. This program marks the beginning of your exciting journey to becoming an experienced tech diver.
The SSI Technical Extended Range Diving Course builds upon the skills and techniques you learned as an SSI Extended Range Diver.
During this course, you will go beyond no-decompression limits by increasing your dive depth and duration. Using technical equipment and a double tank configuration, Technical Extended Range Diving provides enthusiastic underwater explorers with the necessary training to independently plan and conduct mixed gas dives with unlimited decompression down to a depth of 60 meters.
Get ready to push the limits of your technical diving skills. The SSI Hypoxic Trimix course utilizes the full package of knowledge, skills, equipment, and experience you acquired in your previous Advanced Training to take you on a journey into the depths of the ocean.
Conduct the ultimate decompression dive safely by applying trimix diving techniques. Learn how to carry and properly use at least three stage bottles for travel and deco gases alongside your double tanks. With hypoxic trimix breathing gases, you will plan and conduct dives up to a depth of 100 meters.
The TDI Intro to Tech program allows you to get a taste of the world of technical diving. This course is an ideal preview for the TDI Advanced Nitrox course and the TDI Decompression Procedures course.
Would you like to extend your bottom times? Perhaps you’re a scientific diver or an underwater photographer and just want to stay underwater longer?
Are you limited by your No-Decompression Limits (NDLs) during dives, having to ascend earlier than you’d like? The TDI Decompression Procedures course prepares you for planned decompression dives.
With a maximum dive depth of 45 meters, this course is your first step beyond the normal recreational diving limits. The TDI Decompression Procedures course, combined with the TDI Advanced Nitrox course, forms the foundation for all other technical diving courses. After completing these two courses and gaining some additional experience, the path is clear for further technical advancements.
Many spectacular dive sites are often deeper than 39 meters, but you may have limited or no access to helium in this part of the world. In the TDI Extended Range course, you will learn the correct techniques to dive with compressed air as a breathing gas with an acceptable risk at a maximum depth of up to 55 meters. This way, you won’t have to miss out on these dives!
The TDI Extended Range diving course provides you with the necessary training and experience for deep diving using air. This course also educates you about the correct techniques, equipment requirements, and potential hazards involved. You will learn to safely and competently use air for decompression dives up to 55 meters, as well as nitrox blends or oxygen for your decompression stops.
The TDI Advanced Trimix Diver course is the pinnacle of training for technical divers in open circuit. It enables you to dive to depths of up to 100 meters using hypoxic gas mixtures (less than 17 percent oxygen content). This course is one of the most informative and challenging of all TDI courses. Upon completion, you will belong to the divers who are capable of doing and seeing more while diving than other divers out there.