DIVE GUIDE Course

What's in the course?

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 Professional without requiring you to complete an instructor program. Professional Dive Guides can work for SSI Training Centers, guiding dives in a variety of environments and conditions. You will earn the SSI Dive Guide certification after completing this program.s 

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FACTS

 

• Minimum Age:15 / 18 if the active status

• Certification Prerequisites: 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

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DIVEMASTER

The SSI DIVEMASTER rating recognizes candidates that have the knowledge and training necessary to perform the duties of a certi+ed assistant. These duties including assisting SSI Instructors with conducting entry-level and continuing education scuba training programs.

 

Candidate Prerequisites

• Minimum age: 18 years old.

• Have logged at least 60 open water dives totaling 40 hours or more.

Have the following SSI certi-cations (no equivalency permitted):

• Science Of Diving

Have the following active status SSI certi-cations (no equivalency permitted):

• Professional Dive Guide 

 

Active Status Quali-cations

In addition to the duties performed by an active status Professional Dive Guide, active status Divemasters may:

• Act as a certi+ed assistant for all SSI recreational scuba courses.

• Assist during open water training dives by taking no more than two (2) students at a time on excursion dives.

• Qualify as a Training Specialist for the SSI Ecology Specialty programs.

• Enroll in an SSI InstructorTraining Course

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