From your first breath underwater to teaching others.
Get yourself certified!
If you want to dive anywhere you want, with anyone you want, join the Open Water Diver program. This is your international certification to become part of an exclusive group of underwater explorers that most people only dream about joining! Learning to dive is much easier than you think.
Ask About This Course →Not sure yet? Get a glimpse of scuba diving in confined water through the SSI Try Scuba program, and get a cool recognition card. Conducted in shallow water, the SSI Try Scuba program is a diving adventure the whole family can enjoy.
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Continue your diving education!
Be a more prepared diver, ready to protect yourself and other divers. This combined program will teach you to identify stress and prevent accidents, and introduce you to new skills as a first responder. It is one of the key foundations for your safe diving.
Diver stress is a major cause of diving accidents, but it can easily be prevented and resolved. Join the SSI Diver Stress and Rescue Specialty program and learn how to help yourself and other divers stay safe.
Ask About This Course →Learn how to manage dive emergencies and treat injuries as a first responder with our React Right specialty. This in-depth emergency first response course includes first aid, CPR skills, oxygen administration and much more!
Ask About This Course →Level up your dives and start expanding your diving boundaries! Our SSI Advanced Specialty Diver (ASD) Program combines four core courses to support your diving adventure. Together, they are the foundation for your next step in the diving world.
Are you ready to become a deep diver and explore deeper wrecks, coral-encrusted walls, reefs and more? Many exciting dive sites lie in deep waters and the SSI Deep Diving Specialty will teach you how to get there – safely and with confidence. You will learn how to plan and conduct dives to between 18 and 40 meters deep and earn your SSI Deep Diving Specialty certification.
Ask About This Course →Diving does not end when the sun goes down! Become a night diver and meet the incredible marine life that only comes out at night. Join the SSI Night Diving and Limited Visibility specialty program and you will learn all you need to dive safely at night or in limited visibility.
Ask About This Course →Know where you are, and find your way back with confidence. Learn to use your compass and natural references, estimate distance underwater, and plan dives that end right where you want them to. Good navigation makes every dive easier, safer and more relaxed.
Ask About This Course →Do you want to extend your dive time and explore the dive sites you love for longer? Join the SSI Enriched Air Nitrox specialty program and become a Nitrox diver! This is the perfect course to get the most out of your dive time, especially on multi-dive days, and helps minimize diver fatigue.
Ask About This Course →Adopt the safety attitude and skills of technical diving to improve your dives. With dive computers more affordable than ever, this combined program gives you the knowledge to truly understand your computer, plus the extra cylinder and regulator that extend your diving possibilities, and to apply it all in the ocean. Call it decompression diving by design! Carefully planned and safely executed, not an accidental one!
The SSI Extended Range Foundations program is one of the most popular advanced diving specialties under the XR umbrella. It functions to provide you with a workshop environment to improve your SSI diving skills and introduce you to using tec equipment. Dive into the exciting world of technical diving with Extended Range Foundations.
Ask About This Course →Are you interested in learning how to extend your dive beyond the traditional no-decompression limits? Do you want to understand and use more of your dive computer’s features? To earn your SSI Decompression Diving Specialty, you will learn how to plan and conduct a limited decompression dive using dive planning software and a multi-gas computer to a maximum depth of 40 meters.
Ask About This Course →Most divers only use the basic information on their dive computer. Learn what yours can really do, and how to use its functions before, during and after a dive. Understanding your computer makes dives easier to plan and carry out, and safer too.
Ask About This Course →Are you ready for better streamlining in the water? Take the weight off your back by joining the SSI Sidemount Diving program. This course will teach you the proper sidemount setup and the techniques to dive in this configuration efficiently and effectively.
Ask About This Course →Take your sidemount diving towards the technical side. Learn to dive in a sidemount configuration and to handle multiple stage cylinders for decompression diving, with better trim, less fatigue and better gas consumption. Your certification lets you use this configuration across other Extended Range programs. Training goes to a maximum depth of 40 meters. Open Water Diver certification required.
Ask About This Course →Wrecks are some of the best dive sites in the ocean, full of marine life and history. Wreck Diving teaches you to dive safely around wrecks and artificial reefs without going inside, to a depth of 30 meters. Advanced Wreck Diving takes you further, with limited penetration, no-decompression dives within the daylight zone, to a maximum depth of 30 meters or a linear distance of 40 meters, using specialized overhead environment equipment and procedures.
Ask About This Course →Do you dream of diving into the crystal-clear waters of a Mexican cenote or exploring caverns in the Mediterranean? Become an SSI Cavern Diver and discover the thrill of leaving direct access to the surface behind! Learn all you need to independently plan and conduct cavern dives within the light zone to depths shallower than 40 meters.
Ask About This Course →Want to bring home more than memories? Learn how to dive with an underwater camera, and how to use, maintain and store your equipment. This specialty teaches you simple techniques for better photos and videos, while keeping your diving safe and under control. Open Water Diver certification required.
Ask About This Course →Glide through the ocean effortlessly, extend your dive time, reduce your air consumption, and more with the SSI Perfect Buoyancy specialty. No matter what your diving interest is, having perfect buoyancy is the key to success.
Ask About This Course →Understand the underwater world and what it does to the human body. This online specialty covers diving physics, physiology and equipment in depth. It is required training for most SSI Professional programs and some Extended Range programs, making it the natural first step towards a dive professional career.
Ask About This Course →Are you fascinated with the oceans? Do you want to learn more about the incredible environments you are diving in? Join the SSI Marine Ecology specialty program! You learn about the exciting science of Marine Ecology and become an underwater naturalist in no time.
Ask About This Course →Every dive site behaves differently, and the water is always moving. Learn how waves, tides and currents affect your dive, how to read the conditions at a site, and how to dive safely and confidently from shore, in currents or in rivers. Open Water Diver certification required.
Ask About This Course →Ever lost something underwater? Learn how to plan and run a safe search and recovery dive as part of a team. You will practice search patterns and recovery techniques, use lift bags, lines and reels, and learn to judge water conditions and risks. Training goes to a maximum depth of 30 meters. Open Water Diver certification required.
Ask About This Course →Not sure which specialty to choose? Try five of them. You will do Deep Diving and Navigation plus three more specialties of your choice, with one open water training dive for each after a briefing from your instructor. You can complete any of the full specialties later and credit this training towards them. Open Water Diver certification required.
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Build your diving career!
Do you dream of leading certified divers underwater? Do you want to improve your dive skills and take the first step towards becoming a scuba instructor? Become an SSI Divemaster and start your career as a dive professional!
Ask About This Course →SSI Open Water Instructor will have the knowledge & training necessary to independently organize and conduct entry-level scuba training and Diver Stress & Rescue, EAN40, Divemaster and various specialty programs.
See the Full Program →Teach the specialties you love most. As an SSI instructor, join a Specialty Instructor Seminar for each specialty you want to teach. You can also co-teach with an experienced Specialty Instructor or apply to SSI based on your experience. Teaching more specialties will earn you the Advanced Open Water Instructor certification.
Ask About This Course →Help create the next generation of dive professionals. Assistant Instructor Trainers prepare future instructors to teach academics and in-water training, and can assist Instructor Trainers along the way. It is also your step towards the Instructor Training Seminar and the SSI Instructor Trainer rating. Divemaster Instructor certification required.
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