Improve Your Diving Skills
Continue your adventures and get the skills and experience you need to dive the world’s best dive sites, with SSI advanced training programs.
When you complete a certain number specialties, you’ll also automatically earn the SSI Specialty Diver, SSI Advanced Open Water Diver and SSI Master Diver ratings.
These ratings display your competency and build a solid base for more adventures to come.
If you can’t decide which Specialty programs are the best choice for you, take SSI’s Advanced Adventurer program!
SSI Specialty Recognition Roadmap:
Level: 2
Specialty Diver
2 Specialties + 12 Logged Dives
- –10% discount on 2 specialties of your choice
- Free recognition rating
Level: 3
Advanced Open Water Diver
4 Specialties + 24 Logged Dives
- -15% discount on 4 specialties of your choice
- Free recognition rating
Level: 4
Master Diver
4 Specialties + Stress & Rescue +
50 Logged Dives
- -20% discount on 4 specialties of your choice + Stress & Rescue
- Free recognition rating
Choose your SSI Specialty training right away and earn free recognition:
Core Training (7)
Search & Recovery Specialty
€281.00
Duration: 1 day
Max. Depth: 30 m
Search & Recovery Specialty course focuses on the skills, equipment, procedures and knowledge required to search for and recover small to medium items in open water safely and effectively.
Science of Diving Specialty
€220.00
Duration: 1 day
Max. Depth: dry course
The SSI Science of Diving is a must if you want to learn the science behind scuba diving. You will develop a complete understanding of the underwater world and its effects on the human body.
Navigation Specialty
€220.00
Duration: 1 day (2 dives)
Max. Depth: 18-30m, depending on diver training/experience
The SSI Navigation specialty teaches how to navigate underwater, increases safety and gives you the knowledge and confidence.
Perfect Buoyancy Specialty
€209.00
Duration: 1 day/2 dives
Max. Depth: Dependent on student certification level
Ever wondered how your guide is able to hover motionless over the reef? In the SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty course, you will learn how to weight yourself precisely for optimum control, poise and balance.
Night & Limited Visibility Specialty
€242.00
Duration: 2 evenings / 2 dives
Max. Depth: 12m-18m
See the reef in a different light. As an introduction to underwater nightlife, the Night Diver Specialty course covers techniques for communication and navigation in limited visibility.
Deep Diving Specialty
€297.00
Duration: 2 days / 4 dives
Max. Depth: 18 - 40m
Learn how to plan and run deep dives safely. Deep Dive training covers special equipment considerations, avoiding nitrogen narcosis, preventing decompression sickness and handling potential problems correctly.
Enriched Air / Nitrox Specialty
€204.00 for advance booking
Duration: 1/2 day (dives not included)
Max. Depth: 30 m
With Enriched Air / Nitrox you can dive more safely and for longer (subject to certain limits, of course), since your body absorbs less nitrogen than when diving with air. Enriched Air/Nitrox also allows for shorter surface intervals between two subsequent dives.
Extra Training (6)
Wreck Diver Specialty
€220.00
Duration: 1 days (2 dives)
Max. Depth: 30 m depending on student certification level
The SSI Wreck Diving specialty teaches you the skills and knowledge to evaluate, plan and execute a non penetration wreck dive safely and with confidence.
Advanced Wreck Diver Specialty
€220.00
Duration: 1 days (2 dives)
Max. Depth: 30 m depending on student certification level
This program expands on the knowledge and skills learned in the SSI Wreck Diver Specialty. You will learn the skills required to plan and execute a penetration dive on a wreck.
Equipment Techniques Specialty
€209.00
Duration: half a day
Max. Depth: dry course
The SSI Equipment Techniques Specialty course gives you the knowledge and skills to find what equipment is right for you.
Boat Diver Specialty
€220.00
Duration: 1 day (2 dives)
Max. Depth: 5-30m, depending on diver training/experience
The Boat Diver Specialty teaches you how to dive with confidence from different types of boats giving you the tools to dive most of our dives which are only accessible by boat.
Photo & Video Specialty
€220.00
Duration: 1 day / 2 dives
Max. Depth: N/A
You will learn about the cameras and housings available, camera housing care & maintenance, underwater photography techniques and getting the most out of your pictures on a computer.
Waves, Tides & Currents Specialty
€198.00
Duration: 1 day /2 dives
Max. Depth: 5-30m depending on student certification level
SSI Waves, Tides & Currents specialty will teach how to deal with the current and go with it. Some of the best dives in the Red Sea are drift dives. Feel like you are flying and get the most out of the Red Sea dive sites.
Deco Training (1)
Dry Suit Diver Specialty
€281.00
Duration: 1 days (2 dives + 1 pool session)
Max. Depth: depending on student certification level
The SSI Dry Suit Diver specialty course teaches you the skills and knowledge to choose, dive and maintain your dry suit.
Eco Training (6)
Marine Ecology Specialty
€165.00
Duration: 1 day
Max. Depth: 30 m
Discover new things even on the most familiar dive sites! The Marine Ecology Specialty will give you a new perspective on diving and increase your appreciation of the underwater environment.
Fish Identification Specialty
€165.00
Duration: 1 day
Max. Depth: 30 m
With around 1000 species of fish found here in the Red Sea, it is worth learning how to identify a few of your favorites.
Coral Identification Specialty
€165.00
Duration: 1 day
Max. Depth: 30 m
Coral Identification Specialty gives valuable insight into how some of our most valuable reefs came to be, with a focus on the Red Sea and its unique characteristics.
Blue Oceans Specialty
€88.00
Duration: 1 day
Max. Depth: dry course
SSI Blue Oceans Specialty course gives you insight into the threats our oceans face now and what you can do to help minimize your impact.
Perfect Buoyancy Specialty
€209.00
Duration: 1 day/2 dives
Max. Depth: Dependent on student certification level
Ever wondered how your guide is able to hover motionless over the reef? In the SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty course, you will learn how to weight yourself precisely for optimum control, poise and balance.
Photo & Video Specialty
€220.00
Duration: 1 day / 2 dives
Max. Depth: N/A
You will learn about the cameras and housings available, camera housing care & maintenance, underwater photography techniques and getting the most out of your pictures on a computer.
