welcome to the start of your scuba diving journey!

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The SSI Try Scuba program is a simple introduction to the underwater world.

This entry level program gives you the brief opportunity to see what it's like below the surface, in either confined water or an open water setting, without committing to a longer certification program. 

Minimum age requirement: 10 years old

Course Price: $100

The SSI Open Water Diver program is recognized globally upon certification and is the best way to begin your life-long adventure as a certified scuba diver. 

Personalized training is combined with in-water practice sessions with our highly professional instructors to ensure you have the skills and experience required to become truly comfortable underwater.

Minimum age requirement: 10 years old.

Course Price: $325

 Already scuba certified but needing a refresher? A Scuba Skills Update provides you with the opportunity to review and practice necessary scuba skills that you learned in your original Open Water Diver program under the guidance of an SSI Dive Professional.

 The Scuba Skills Update is often a required for continuing your diving training after a long period of time away from the sport. 

Course Price: $75

 The SSI Enriched Air Nitrox program will teach you how to safely plan and dive with enriched air mixtures of up to 40% oxygen.

Diving with enriched air can increase your no-decompression limits, increase your safety, and reduce the required length of your surface intervals when compared to air. 

Course Price: $100

 This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably dive at night or in limited visibility conditions.

Some of the ocean's most amazing creatures only come out at night, so your dive doesn't have to end when the sun goes down. You will learn how to enter and exit the water, use specialized equipment, and how to communicate and dive with a buddy at night!

Course Price: $89 (extra trip fees for night diving requirements)

 Many of the ocean's best dive sites have artificial reefs, or wrecks that have sunk through the ages.

This program gives you the skills and knowledge required to safely scuba dive above and around these underwater treasures. 

 Course Price: $89

Many exciting dive sites are located in deeper water. Without proper training, this kind of diving puts you at risk.

The SSI Deep Diving Specialty will give you the ability to safely and comfortably plan and conduct dives beyond 60 feet, and is a prerequisite for some advanced training.

 Course Price: $89 (extra trip fees for deep diving requirements)

 This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably navigate underwater during a dive.

You will learn how to use a compass and natural navigation techniques, estimate distance, basic navigation patterns and how to leave and return to a designated point. 

 Course Price: $89 (extra trip fees for navigation requirements)

 Stress is a major cause of diving accidents and negatively impacts rescue situations. 

This program teaches you the skills and knowledge required to recognize and deal with stress, prevent accidents and properly deal with emergency situations encountered by divers. 

Course Price: $125

Stress and Rescue + React Right: $189

 This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely plan and conduct search and recovery dives. 

You will learn about search patterns, specialized dive plans, underwater communication, and how to recover small to medium-sized objects using specialized equipment like lift bags. 

 Course Price: $125

The SSI Equipment Techniques teaches you how to choose, maintain and store your Total Diving System.
This ensures performance and increases the longevity of your equipment.  

Course Price: $100

 Do you want to increase your buoyancy control, minimize your breathing gas consumption, or move effortlessly above the ocean floor?
The SSI Perfect Buoyancy program teaches you the skills and techniques needed to maximize your dive experience, increase your comfort in the water, and get the most from your equipment.  

Course Price: $75

 The ocean is filled with dive sites, but many of them cannot be reached from shore. This program gives you the skills and knowledge required to safely dive from a boat, allowing you to get the most from your underwater opportunities. 

Course Price: $89

This program teaches you the skills needed to dive with an underwater camera, and provides the in-depth knowledge and experience required to properly use, maintain and store your equipment.

​Our goal is help you capture your amazing underwater experiences. 

Course Price: $100 

React Right is SSI's emergency training program, consisting of the following basic components: Primary Assessment, First Aid & CPR Skills, Primary Stabilization Techniques, and includes two optional components: Oxygen Administration in Diving Emergencies and Automated External Defibrillation Basics.  

Course Price: $100 

 This program provides a general understanding of the complex and exciting science of marine ecology, which is the study of how organisms interact with each other and the environment, the flow of energy through communities, and the link between ocean ecosystems. 

Single Course Price: $75

5 Ecology Specialty Kit Bundle: $375

 The ocean is filled with fascinating and beautiful fish of every shape and size. This non-diving specialty program teaches you the skills and concepts required to identify the common families of Caribbean, Indo-Pacific, and Red Sea reef fish. 

Single Course Price: $75

 Many humans fear sharks, but is that reputation deserved? 

By taking the SSI Shark Ecology program, you will learn how sharks and their behavior are often misunderstood, and how you can safely observe them in their natural habitat. 

Course Price: $75

 This program teaches you the skills and concepts required to recognize and identify common species of sea turtles, describes their history and role in marine ecosystems, and threats to their survival.  

Course Price: $75

 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. 

 This program provides an in-depth and detailed study of physics, physiology, decompression theory, the aquatic environment and diving equipment. It is required training for most SSI Dive Professional programs, as well as some Extended Range programs. 

After completing Dive Guide and Science of Diving, earn the coveted Divemaster and the ability to assist Open Water Instructors. 

 This program provides the skills, concepts, and teaching experience required to become a successful SSI Instructor. You will learn the SSI Teaching System and philosophy, how to assist Instructors in training and how to independently teach a variety of SSI training programs. Candidates who complete this program can earn the SSI Assistant Instructor rating.

The most important job in the entire dive industry - certifying new divers, and ensuring an amazing learning experience. 

Stay down longer, go deeper, and explore farther. 

 This program provides the knowledge and experience required to independently plan and conduct limited decompression dives to a maximum depth of 40 meters, using nitrox mixtures up to 50%. This entry-level program introduces you to the Extended Range training techniques and skills, and can be completed wearing a standard single-cylinder equipment configuration.