Advanced Training

This course can be taken after completing the Open Water Diver certification. It's titled Advanced Open Water Diver because it advances your diving knowledge & skills.

The course helps you build confidence in navigation, fine-tune buoyancy skills and introduces you to different diving activities such as wreck diving, night diving or underwater imaging. After completing your eLearning, you'll make five Adventure Dives: a deep dive (beyond 18m/60F), a navigation dive, and three additional Adventure Dives of your choice to earn your certification.

Prerequisites

• Independent “eLearning”

• Typically two in water sessions

Prerequisites

• 12 years of age or older

• Open Water Diver/Junior Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)

Learn to prevent and manage problems in the water, and become more confident in your skills as a diver. It's challenging, yet very rewarding.

The Rescue Diver course teaches you techniques to avoid and manage problems and improve your confidence as a diver. During the course you'll become a better buddy by enhancing your ability to identify potential problems and by practicing dive emergency protocol.

Class Structure

• Independent “eLearning”

• Typically two in water sessions

Prerequisites

• 12 years of age or older

• Adventure Diver/Junior Adventure Diver (or qualifying certification) with completed Underwater Navigation Dive; EFR Primary and Secondary Care training (or qualifying training) within 24 months

The most popular specialty course. Scuba diving with enriched air nitrox gives you more no decompression time, especially on repetitive scuba dives.

Enriched Air, also known as “nitrox”, is a form of breathing gas that allows divers to extend bottom time and reduce nitrogen loading. It is the most popular specialty course. Enriched Air Diver Online can be completed in as little as an afternoon. After completing your online learning you'll apply the knowledge you've learned by practicing procedures for obtaining and analyzing enriched air with your Instructor. You also have the option of completing two open water enriched air dives.

Class Structure

• Independent “eLearning”

• In person practical training - no dives required

Prerequisites

• 12 years of age or older

• Open Water Diver (or qualifying certification)

Becoming a dry suit diver allows you to expand your boundaries and dive more places, more often. This suit seals you off from the water and keeps you comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water.

Want to stay warm? Want to extend your scuba diving season? Then dive dry. A dry suit seals you off from the water and keeps you comfortable, even in surprisingly cold water. There is incredible diving in the world's cooler regions and in some areas, conditions are even better in colder months. Becoming a dry suit diver allows you to expand your boundaries and dive more places, more often.

Prerequisites

• 10 years of age or older

• (Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level certification)

The most popular diving specialties course. It's easy and fun to capture images of your underwater scuba adventures.

This specialty course helps you easily achieve great photo and video results. During this course you will learn how to choose the right underwater camera system for you, Principles for good composition of underwater images, and practical techniques to take great photos with your digital camera.

Prerequisites

• 10 years of age or older

• (Junior) Open Water Diver (or qualifying entry-level certification)

Ships, airplanes and even cars are fascinating to explore and usually teem with aquatic life. Each wreck dive offers a chance for a new discovery.

Whether purpose-sunk as an artificial reef for scuba divers, or lost as the result of an accident, wrecks are fascinating windows to the past. Ships, airplanes and even cars are fascinating to explore and usually teem with aquatic life. Each wreck dive offers a chance for discovery, potentially unlocking a mystery or spying something others have missed.

Prerequisites

• 15 years of age or older

• Adventure Diver (or qualifying certification)

Join the best of the best, the elite group of respected divers who have earned this rating through both significant experience and scuba training.

Earning the rating of SSI Master Diver is the pinnacle of recreational scuba diving. It makes you a better, safer diver and demonstrates your dive capabilities and experience to the world. Put simply, it is one of the most elite ratings in diving today. There are many reasons why every diver should become an SSI Master Diver.

6 Great reasons to become a Master Diver:

1. Join the best of the best

2. Learn new skills

3. Become a safer diver

4. Help other divers

5. Explore the world

6. Bragging rights!

Prerequisites

• Min 50 logged dives

• Earn 5 Specialties (Strees & Rescue must be included)

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