Unleash Your Inner Adventurer – Dive into the World’s Best Sites with SSI’s Advanced Scuba Training
Explore the world’s best dive sites with SSI’s advanced scuba training. Choose from over 20 Specialty Programs to enhance your skills and earn your free SSI Specialty Diver, Advanced Open Water Diver, and Master Diver ratings.
Not sure which program to choose? Take the Advanced Adventurer program and try 5 different Specialties before committing to a full training program. Afterwards you can complete your Specialty certifications any time later at your convenience. Achieve your diving dreams and explore the most iconic dive sites in the world with the flexible training approach of SSI!
Begin your Perfect Buoyancy program today
The SSI Perfect Buoyancy specialty is the best way to improve your buoyancy and get the most from every dive.
Buoyancy is an essential dive skill, but any diver will tell you it takes time to perfect. The Perfect Buoyancy specialty will teach you advanced buoyancy skills and techniques, so you can master your buoyancy more quickly and enjoy more relaxed dive adventures. In this fascinating program, you will also learn new skills that protect the environment and work in every diving situation.
Upon completion, you will earn the SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty certification. With better buoyancy skills, you will soon be able to hover with ease and take the underwater photographs you dream of!
Become an SSI Deep Diver
The SSI Deep Diving Specialty will teach you all you need to dive to depths between 18 and 40 meters, through a mixture of academic sessions and open water dives.
You will learn to plan and safely complete your deep diving adventures and use computers and gas consumption calculations to get the most from your deep dives.
Upon completion, you will earn your SSI Deep Diving Specialty certification and be able to explore beautiful deep dive sites wherever you choose. This SSI Specialty is also a prerequisite for some advanced training, making it the next logical step to take in your dive education.
Become an SSI Nitrox diver
As a Nitrox diver, you can increase your bottom times and safety margins, plus shorten your surface intervals - so you can spend more time diving and less time waiting! In this program, you will learn new skills and increase your diving knowledge whilst learning how to safely plan and dive with enriched air mixtures of up to 40% oxygen.
Upon completion, you will earn an SSI Enriched Air Nitrox 32% or 40% certification.
Become an SSI Night Diver
Night diving requires different skills from diving during the day. The SSI Night Diving and Limited Visibility specialty is the best way to learn about night diving and practice the techniques you will need to become a safe and confident night diver.
In this program, you will be provided with all the knowledge and skills you need to safely and comfortably dive at night or in limited visibility conditions. With a combination of online learning and open water training dives, you will learn how to enter and exit the water, use specialized equipment, and how to communicate with your buddy easily at night or in limited visibility.
Upon completion, you will earn the SSI Night Diving and Limited Visibility specialty certification and be ready to go night diving with confidence.
Start your Diver Stress and Rescue Specialty adventure
The SSI Diver Stress and Rescue specialty program teaches you the skills you need to protect yourself and other divers.
You will learn how to identify stress, how to prevent accidents and be taught practical techniques to conduct rescues and provide emergency care. With a combination of pool and open water practice sessions, you will become well prepared and confident at handling emergency and rescue situations.
Upon completion, you will earn the SSI Diver Stress and Rescue Specialty certification.
Unlock your dive computer’s full potential
SSI designed the Computer Diving program to help certified divers become familiar with the features and benefits of using a dive computer. By understanding and knowing how to use all the functions of a dive computer, you will not only increase your dive safety but also make planning and executing your dive easier.
The SSI Computer Diving program explores the functions and capabilities of different dive computers and explains how to use these functions before, during, and after your dive. Often, divers purchase a computer and only use it for its basic information. Get the most out of your investment by learning to use your dive computer to its full potential.
Start your SSI Computer Diving specialty online today!
Become a certified Decompression Diver with SSI
The SSI Decompression Diving Specialty will teach you how to dive beyond the no-decompression limits. You will learn to plan and conduct dives to a maximum depth of 40 meters with limited decompression using your recreational total diving system and a single decompression cylinder. You will learn and practice how to effectively use your dive computer features, including switching gases, gas integration, time-to-reserve, and time-to-surface. Using these computer functions will become second nature, enabling you to safely conduct dives with limited decompression without hours of dive planning.
Upon completion, you will earn the SSI Decompression Diving Specialty certification and be able to explore stunning deep dive sites or larger wrecks without being restricted by the traditional no-decompression limits. The opportunities to expand your diving adventures have just got bigger!
Dive with purpose – SSI’s Public Safety Diving Training
Ready yourself for the demands of public safety diving with SSI’s specialized programs. Our courses, like the Public Safety Diver and Rescue Team Diver certifications, are tailored to equip you with the skills needed for critical missions in challenging conditions. From mastering low visibility diving to honing response techniques for in-water incidents, our training ensures you’re prepared to serve as a key member of any public safety dive team.
Join us and unlock your potential as a confident and capable Public Safety Diver with SSI.
Start your SSI Public Safety Diver Specialty program
SSI now offers the highly anticipated Public Safety Diver program to meet the growing demand for highly qualified Public Safety Diving professionals worldwide. SSI’s innovative and comprehensive approach to public safety training will prepare you for public safety diving team involvement. This 4-day certification program will offer the basic knowledge, skills, and fundamentals needed to ensure safety and competency, and it is the prerequisite course required to enroll in the SSI Rescue Team Diver program.
Start your SSI Rescue Team Diver Specialty program
Continue your training in public safety diving with SSI’s Rescue Team Diver program. This 4-day specialty program is designed for divers already affiliated with a public safety dive team and will further develop your knowledge and skills. Hands-on training will teach you how to function safely and effectively in all roles as a public safety dive team response unit (Primary Diver, Primary Tender, Safety Diver, Safety Tender, 90% Diver, and Incident Commander).
Get ready to learn the methods and skills required to respond to in-water incidents, including multiple search pattern techniques, working in zero visibility conditions, effectively using a body recovery system, line tending, witness interviewing, and more!
Earn your SSI Rescue Team Diving specialty by starting online today!
Become SSI Advanced Scuba Diver
Level up your scuba diving experience with new skills.