Take your first step toward becoming a diver for life! You’re on your way to explore a magical, mysterious and captivating world that has gone untouched and unchanged for centuries or even millennia. The knowledge and skills you build now will stay with you as you jump in for your first "Ultimate Dive Experience" — as well as many more after that.

 

Before you dip your fins in the water, you’ll need to prepare yourself to embark on your journey toward becoming a diver for life with some important information about diving. Combined with the pool sessions that are part of your SSI Open Water Diver course, the knowledge you build studying this information will help you explore the planet’s last great frontier for the rest of your life!

SSI offers the best diving education programs in the industry, which means that by completing the Open Water Diver course, you’ll be ready to have the ultimate dive experience every time you jump in. As leaders in dive training, we take our responsibility seriously to ensure that the beautiful underwater landscape stays pristine for generations to come.

 

SSI, your training centre, and your SSI Professionals all support the ongoing efforts to protect our oceans, coral reefs and all aquatic environments for future generations. In the early days of sport diving, the oceans were seen by many as an indestructible, self-renewing resource. We know now that it can be fragile at the hands of humans and exploration. We also know that it has an impressive capacity for regeneration when given the chance. Always dive as the guest that you are in this new environment. As long as you do, you will be welcomed and have many opportunities to return.

 

As an SSI diver, we encourage and invite you to share responsibility for protecting these valuable resources. One simple way you can participate is to embrace a personal ethic of leaving nature the way you find it. Many dive boats and dive resorts already have this policy, so we hope you will adopt this model and support it. Your behaviour can help ensure that divers of the future will still be able to experience and enjoy the beauty of our aquatic world. Now, let’s get started!