SSI Instructor & Beyond

Open Water Instructor

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How about sharing the joy and magic of diving instead of drowning in a sea of paper and land-locked reality? Become an SSI Instructor and work in an office that covers ¾ of the world. There’s a high demand for full and part-time SSI Instructors at retail shops and exotic resorts worldwide.

Learn to be a Scuba Instructor - The SSI Way

Most instructor programs focus only on teaching diving. However, most dive businesses require much more of instructors than merely teaching.

The SSI Instructor Training Course (ITC) prepares you to become an active member of the scuba industry, a successful educator, and a valuable dive business employee. Your training includes the following:

  • How the dive industry interact
  • How successful dive retailers and resorts operate
  • The SSI Education System and Education Philosophy
  • Techniques for recruiting, teaching and evaluating students
  • Effective techniques for teaching academics, and in the pool and open
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  • Legal aspects of teaching
  • The benefits of becoming an SSI Instructor

You possess business knowledge that other candidates don’t. The expanded course content of the SSI ITC gives you an edge over “teaching only” programs, and makes you a much more valuable, well-rounded instructor.

SSI Instructors represent the best of both worlds. You are trained to use the award-winning SSI Teaching System, and you are trained to be a skilled educator.

What you can teach…

  • The Open Water Diver Course
  • The Passport Diver Course
  • The Stress & Rescue Course
  • Scuba Skills Update
  • Try Scuba (Introduction to Scuba)
  • Universal Referral Program

As a new instructor, your first few classes can be a little intimidating.

At Scubashop, you are teaching in an established scuba school with experienced instructors. They can assist with your first few courses, and they have a wealth of knowledge to help you progress.

Already an Instructor and just need to crossover?

SSI has a convenient crossover program for instructors affiliated with recognized agencies. Our premise is that since you are already an instructor, you only need to know how SSI’s system and philosophy functions.

Advanced Open Water Instructor

Teaching specialty and advanced courses is a perfect way to continue growing as an instructor. These courses offer variety and are convenient to learn. You also get to teach the activities you love to do!

Instructors may qualify to teach specialty and advanced courses by attending a seminar, co-teaching with an Advanced Open Water Instructor and documenting significant experience. Instructors must also purchase course teaching materials.

If you teach….. You will earn…

  • 1 to 3 individual specialty courses Specialty Instructor rating
  • 4 or more specialty courses Advanced Open Water Instructor rating

SSI Specialty Courses

  • Boat Diving
  • Computer Diving
  • Deep Diving
  • Diver Stress & Rescue
  • Enriched Air Nitrox
  • Equipment Techniques
  • Navigation
  • Night & Limited Visibility Diving
  • Search & Recovery
  • Underwater Photography
  • Waves, Tides & Currents
  • Wreck Diving
Dive Control Specialist Instructor

Make the jump from training divers to training Dive Leaders. In doing so, you become a key player in the success of your dive facility and meet one requirement of becoming a Master Instructor.

Dive Control Specialists contribute significantly to the success of a dive business, because they can assist in so many ways. In addition, DiveCons create a ready pool of candidates for instructor programs. The Dive Control Specialist course can be rewarding, fun and profitable to teach.

Master InstructorMASTER INSTRUCTOR RATING = Dive Control Specialist Instructor + Certifying 200 SSI Divers + Min 200 dives