Each speciality adds another piece to the jigsaw of your diving experience. By completing a number of them, you’ll also earn the SSI Specialty Diver, Advanced Specialty Diver and Master Diver qualifications.
Longer dives, shorter surface intervals and greater safety margins: you’ll learn how to plan and dive using enriched air mixtures containing up to 40 per cent oxygen. A short and extremely useful course.
The secret of the most elegant divers: perfect buoyancy, fluid movements, lower air consumption and more time on the seabed. Enhance every dive and protect the environment.
Many of the most beautiful sites are a little deeper. You’ll learn how to plan and carry out dives safely at depths of between 18 and 40 metres, managing your dive computer and gas consumption, whilst remaining comfortable at depth.
Always know where you are and how to get back: compass, natural navigation, estimating distances and locating specific points. Safer, worry-free dives.
Shipwrecks steeped in life and history: learn how to explore them safely (without entering the wreck) down to a depth of 30 metres, getting up close to these fascinating relics of the past.
The sea takes on a different character after sunset: new marine life, new thrills. You’ll learn how to dive at night and in poor visibility with the right preparation, suitable lights and effective communication with your dive partner.
A drysuit allows you to dive all year round, keeping you dry and warm, and even opens up cold waters. You’ll learn how to use and manage it for comfortable and safe dives.
Locating and recovering objects underwater: search patterns, the use of lines, reels and lift bags to plan and carry out safe recovery dives.
With an underwater scooter, you can cover more distance with less effort: longer, more enjoyable dives and the sensation of flying underwater, down to 30 metres.
Bring your most memorable dives home: composition, lighting, and how to use and look after your camera to capture high-quality underwater photos and videos that truly bring your dives to life.
Get to know your equipment inside out: how to choose, look after and store it to ensure maximum performance and longevity. Basic preventative maintenance for your Total Diving System.
You’ll learn to read and navigate dynamic environments: waves, tides and currents. Dives from the shore, in currents or in rivers, safely and with greater awareness.
Tanks on the sides rather than on the back: greater comfort, improved hydrodynamics and buoyancy, and greater redundancy and safety. Recreational sidemount dives with one or two tanks to a depth of 30 metres.
The science behind diving: physics, physiology, decompression and the aquatic environment. Available online, it forms the foundation for professional courses and takes you halfway towards becoming a Divemaster.
Get the most out of your dive computer: features, settings and how to use it correctly before, during and after your dive, for greater safety and easier dive planning.
The bridge to technical diving: you’ll learn how to plan and conduct dives to a depth of 40 metres with limited decompression, using a stage cylinder and your recreational system.
You’ll learn to recognise corals and understand the reef ecosystem: dives that are all the more meaningful and a fresh perspective on your underwater surroundings.
Give the fish you come across a name: you’ll learn to recognise the most common families found in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the tropics. Every dive becomes a little adventure.
Become an underwater naturalist: learn how marine organisms interact, how energy flows through ecosystems, and how to protect them. So you can dive with greater awareness.