SSI DIVE GUIDE COURSE
Who should take this course?
Love scuba diving? Want to share it with others on a whole new level? Take the SSI Dive Guide course and do what you love to do as a career. Scuba divers look up to divemasters because they are leaders who mentor and motivate others. As a divemaster, you not only get to dive a lot, but also experience the joy of seeing others have as much fun diving as you do.
The SSI Dive Guide course is your first level of professional training. Working closely with a SSI Professional, you’ll fine-tune your dive skills, like perfecting the effortless hover, and refine your rescue skills so you anticipate and easily solve common problems. You’ll gain dive knowledge, management and supervision abilities so you become a role model to divers everywhere.
Divers can get started on this exciting experience from a minimum age of 15 / 18 if active status, with the prequisites of the Advanced Adventurer and Diver stress and Rescue certifications. You must have 40 logged dives, certification or equivalent experience: Navigation, Night & Limited Visibility, Deep Diving.
What will you learn?
This program gives you the skills and experience required to safely lead groups of certified divers, and is the first step towards an exciting career as an SSI Dive Professional without requiring you to complete an instructor program. Professional Dive Guides can work for SSI Dive Centers, guiding dives in a variety of environments and conditions. You will earn the SSI Dive Guide certification after completing this program.
The SSI Dive Guide course teaches you to be a leader and take charge of dive activities. Through knowledge development sessions, waterskills exercises and workshops, and hands-on practical assessment, you develop the skills to organize and direct a variety of scuba diving activities. Topics and practical workshops include:
The SSI Total Teaching System
Diver Diamond Philosophy
Course Standards and Procedures
Duties and Role of a Dive Guide
Causes and Prevention, Stress and Diving
Accident Management Procedures
Trip Organisation
Dive PLanning
Dive Briefing
Equipment Problem Solving
Group Management
Dive Saftey
Shore, Boat, Night and Deep Diving
Drift Diving- Waves, Tides and Currents
What scuba gear will you use?
As a dive professional, you’ll want to have all your basic scuba equipment, including a dive computer, a dive knife, and at least two surface signaling devices. During practical skills exercises, like underwater mapping and search and recovery, you’ll use a compass, floats, marker buoys, lift bags and slates. Your SSI Pofessional may suggest additional gear that will be useful throughout your diving career.
Check with us to get advice about everything you’ll need as a dive pro.
