Diving offers a lifetime of exciting adventure and the ideal way to begin that adventure is with SSI's Open Water Diver course. Under the guidance of a professional SSI Instructor, you will develop the knowledge and skills necessary to enjoy a lifetime of underwater exploration.
Knowledge. SSI's modular, six-session teaching system includes a video, manual, study guide, dive log and dive tables. And with SSI's home study approach, you will be able to minimize your time in the classroom allowing for more time in the water developing ability and comfort. Skills. In multiple pool and open water sessions, you will practice scuba skills with SSI's exclusive Comfort Through Repetition teaching method. Some of the skills you will learn include:
Moving in the water with ease
Breathing normally under water
Controlling buoyancy so you neither descend nor ascend
The easiest ways to enter and exit the water
Getting water out of your mask or mask clearing
Equipment. Since you can't dive without equipment, there is extensive information on scuba equipment including:
Selecting the best diving equipment for your needs and budget
Maintaining and adjusting your equipment to extend its life and improve performance.
Courses
Try Scuba Experience your first entry into the marine environment, your first feeling of weightlessness, which will thrill and excite, an experience never to be forgotten. £25-00
Open Water Diver We will make you a comfortable and confident diver. If you care about being a confident diver don't settle for any thing less than SSI certification.
We teach the SSI Open Water Diver Course in two distinctive parts
1. Knowledge development/theory and pool training (known as the Referral) The cost is £249-00
2. Open Water training dives (known as course completion) The cost is £150-00
Stress & Rescue Learn how to detect and prevent stress in yourself, and your dive buddies. The diver Stress and Rescue program will increase your diving competency and enjoyment while you learn to prevent diving accidents. £275-00
Specialties No matter what underwater activity you are interested in, you can find a specialty that suit's you! Underwater Photographer, Navigation, Search and Recovery, Deep Diving, Wreck Diving, Boat Diving, , Drysuit Diving, Computer Diving, Equipment Techniques, Night Diver/Limited Visibility, Enriched Air Nitrox & Waves, Tides and Currents. Experience combined with training is the ideal way to become an advanced diver.
Master Diver
For certification as a SSI Advanced Open water diver you will need to complete 4 specialties and logged 24 dives. Diver To achieve this very prestigious rating, you will have logged 50 dives, completed 4 specialties plus the Stress and Rescue program.
Dive Control Specialist
Dive Control Specialists help divers have fun, leading dive tours and dive trips and helping rusty divers refresh their skills via the Scuba Skills Update program. As a Dive Con you will also be able to assist an instructor training divers. £495-00
Open Water Instructor
Learn to be a Scuba Instructor - the SSI way The SSI Instructor Training Course (ITC) prepares you to become an active member of the scuba industry, a successful educator, and a valuable dive business employee.
The program includes: How industry stakeholders interact (manufacturers, media, agencies, retail and travel). How successful dive retailers and resort operate. The SSI Education System and Education philosophy. Techniques for recruiting, teaching and evaluating students. Effective techniques for teaching home study academics, teaching in pool and open water. Legal aspects of teaching. The basics of educational selling using SSI's Customer Loyalty Cycle
Stress & Rescue Instructor
Diver Stress & Rescue is the next course recommended for Open Water Instructors to teach. It's fun to teach and it helps divers gain confidence and become better buddies.
Advanced Open Water Instructor
Teaching is a perfect way to continue growing as an instructor. Specialty courses offer variety and are convenient to learn.
Dive Con Instructor
Make the jump from training divers to training Dive Leaders. In doing so you become a key player in the success of you dive facility and meet one of the requirements of becoming a Master Instructor.
