Professional

Dive Guide

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 enviroments and conditions. You will earn the SSI Dive Guide certification after completing this program.

 

 

Minimum Age: 15 / 18 if active status
Certification Prerequisites: Advanced Adventurer,
Diver Stress & Rescue certification,
40 logged Dives,
certification or equivalent experience: Navigation, Night & Limited Visibility, Deep Diving.
Academic Sessions: Varies
Pool/Confined Water Sessions: Varies
Open Water Dives: 10 or at least 50 total
Maximum Training Depth: 40 meters / 130 feet
Suggested Duration: 35 - 45 hours

 

 

Upcoming courses

Dive Control Specialist

This program provides the skills, concepts, and teaching experience required to become an effective SSI Assistant Instructor/Dive Control Specialist. You will learn the SSI Teaching System and philosophy, how to assist with Open Water Diver programs, and how to independently teach a variety of SSI training programs. Candidates who complete this program earn the SSI Assistant Instructor/Dive Control Specialist certification.

 

Minimum Age: 18
Certification Prerequisites: Divemaster
60 logged dives
Suggested Duration: 45 - 55 hours

 

 

Upcoming courses

Instructor Training CourseThis program provides candidates with the knowledge, concepts and training necessary to organize and conduct entry-level scuba training courses. Candidates will learn the SSI Teaching System and philosophy, and how to effectively teach and evaluate Open Water Diver students. It will also prepare the candidate for their Instructor Evaluation. Candidates who complete this program and the Instructor Evaluation earn the SSI Open Water Instructor certification.

 

Minimum Age: 18
Certification Prerequisites: Must be at least Dive Control Specialist/Assistant Instructor
75 logged open water dives
Suggested Duration: 50 - 60 hours

 

 

Upcoming courses

Extended Range Nitrox Diving InstructorThis program provides divers with the training necessary to independently plan and conduct limited decompression dives to a maximum depth of 40 meters/130 feet using nitrox mixtures of up to 50% with an equally qualified dive buddy. Upon completion of the program the diver is certified as follows: SSI Extended Range Nitrox Instructor.

 

 

Minimum Age: 18

 

Upcoming courses

If you work underwater as a diver breathing compressed gas from any source then you need to apply for a Worksafe Certificate of Competency (CoC). This includes occupational diving involving underwater repairs, construction, cleaning, and refurbishment on pools, which many pool maintenance companies offer.

Thursday 16 July 2020
Event Date Monday 15 January 2024
Event End Date Sunday 14 September 2031
Register By Friday 13 September 2030
Individual Price Free
Location
Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland
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