Vocational courses

Dive Guides

The first professional level: you’ll learn how to safely lead certified divers, conduct briefings, assess dive sites and lead dives. The first step towards making diving your career.

• Max depth: 40 m
• Open-water dives: 5
• Pool sessions: 4
• Theory lessons: 5
• Duration: 35–45 h
• Requirements: At least 40 logged dives

Divemaster

The best-known professional qualification: you lead dives, assist with courses and teach ecology specialities. The real gateway to a career in diving.

• Max depth: 40 m
• Open-water dives: 60
• Pool sessions: 4
• Theory lessons: 10
• Duration: 43–57 h
• Requirements: Dive Guides · The Science of Diving · 60 dives

Assistant Instructor

You’ll start teaching: you’ll assist the instructor during courses and lead parts of the training sessions. A concrete step towards qualifying as an instructor.

Instructor Training Course (ITC)

The course that prepares you to become an SSI Open Water Instructor: supported by digital learning, it leads you to pass the Instructor Evaluation and teach the core programmes.

• Max depth: 40 m
• Pool sessions: 6
• Theory lessons: 10
• Duration: 70–80 h
• Requirements: Divemaster · 75 dives