If you’ve always wanted to take scuba diving lessons, experience unparalleled adventure and see the world beneath the waves, this is where it starts. This globally-recognized certification program will get you started on your life-long adventure as a certified scuba diver. Personalized training is combined with in-water practice sessions to ensure you have the skills and experience required to become truly comfortable underwater. You will earn the SSI Open Water Diver certification.
To enroll in a SSI Open Water Diver course (or Junior Open Water Diver course), you must be 10 years old or older. You need adequate swimming skills and need to be in good physical health. No prior experience with scuba diving is required.
The SSI Open Water Diver course consists of four distinct ingredients in becoming a diver — proper knowledge, skills, equipment and experience.
Knowledge Development ( online program ) to understand basic principles of scuba diving.
Learn to develop essential skills to be a competant diver.
Your SSI Dive Professional will work with you to carefully select and educate on the appropriate equipment just for you.
Focus on gaining real experience. The only way to do it is, well, to go diving!
There are many ways you can start the SSI program — Traditional Training, Home Study or Online Training. No matter which way you decide to take the program, it will be taught the same way — using the SSI Total Teaching System. During interactive review sessions, your SSI Dive Professional will teach you how “land value” — what you learn out of the water — relates to “water value” — what you do with information in the water.
In the SSI Open Water Diver course, you learn to use basic scuba gear, including a mask, snorkel, fins, regulator, buoyancy control device and a tank. The equipment you wear varies, depending upon whether you’re diving in tropical, temperate or cold water. Your SSI Dive Professional will teach the class as if you will become a diver and make the investment in your own equipment. Check with us about the gear you’ll use during this course and get advice about everything you need from your SSI Instructor.
Being a recognized certified diver gives you a license to explore our true last frontier: the ocean.
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