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
Free recognition rating
Level: 3
Advanced Specialty Diver
4 Specialties + 24 Logged Dives
Free recognition rating
Level: 4
Master Diver
4 Specialties + Stress & Rescue +
50 Logged Dives
Free recognition rating
Choose your SSI Specialty training right away and earn free recognition:
Core Training (7)
Search & Recovery Specialty
€298
Duration: 1 day
Max. Depth: 30 m
Learn to use search patterns, lift bags and dive team communication to locate and recover objects underwater safely and effectively.
Science of Diving Specialty
€220
Duration: Flexible (online)
Max. Depth: Dry course
Develop a complete understanding of the physics, physiology and environment behind every dive you make. A must for anyone working toward a professional rating.
Navigation Specialty
€237
Duration: 1 day (2 dives)
Max. Depth: 30 m
Learn to navigate underwater using a compass and natural landmarks. A skill that increases your safety, your confidence and the enjoyment you get out of every dive. Never lose your way on a dive site again.
Perfect Buoyancy Specialty
€221
Duration: 1 day (2 dives)
Max. Depth: 18-30 m
Master the skill that separates good divers from great ones. Perfect buoyancy protects the reef, improves air consumption and makes every dive more relaxed and enjoyable.
Night & Limited Visibility Specialty
€242
Duration: 2 evenings (2 dives)
Max. Depth: 30 m
The Red Sea reef looks completely different after dark. Learn the techniques for night diving and limited visibility, and discover a whole new side of the underwater world.
Deep Diving Specialty
€321
Duration: 2 days (3 dives)
Max. Depth: 40 m
Unlock the deeper parts of the Red Sea. Learn to plan and execute safe deep dives to up to 40 metres, including gas management and dive computer use. A certification that opens up deep dive sites all over the world.
Enriched Air / Nitrox Specialty
€204
Duration: Half day
Max. Depth: Dry course
Dive longer and more safely with Enriched Air. Nitrox reduces nitrogen absorption, giving you longer bottom times and shorter surface intervals between dives. No dives required.
Extra Training (5)
Boat Diver Specialty
€232
Duration: 1 day (2 dives)
Max. Depth: 30 m
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
€237
Duration: 1 day (2 dives)
Max. Depth: 30 m
Learn to use an underwater camera, compose a shot and capture the incredible marine life of the Red Sea. Bring your own camera and we will take care of the rest. Your dives will never look the same again.
SSI Waves, Tides & Currents
€210
Duration: 1 day (2 dives)
Max. Depth: 30 m
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.
Wreck Diver Specialty
€232
Duration: 1 days (2 dives)
Max. Depth: 30 m
The Red Sea is one of the world's great wreck diving destinations. Learn to safely explore sunken structures and artificial reefs to up to 30 metres, and discover the marine life that calls them home.
Advanced Wreck Diver Specialty
€232
Duration: 1 day (2 dives)
Max. Depth: 30 m
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.
Eco Training (6)
Marine Ecology Specialty
€165
Duration: Half day
Max. Depth: Dry course
Learn how ocean organisms interact with each other and their environments. A fascinating dry course open to everyone, divers and non-divers alike. No diving experience required.
Coral Identification Specialty
€165
Duration: Half day
Max. Depth: Dry course
The Red Sea has one of the most biodiverse reef systems on the planet, where all species of coral and fish thrive together in one chaotic space. Learn to identify corals of the Red Sea. No diving required, open to everyone.
Blue Oceans Specialty
Free
Duration: Half day
Max. Depth: Dry course
You don't need to be a diver to care about the reef. Learn about ocean conservation and the everyday choices that make a real difference. A free course open to everyone, divers, snorkellers and hotel guests alike.
Fish Identification Specialty
€165
Duration: Half day
Max. Depth: Dry course
Learn to identify common families of Red Sea reef fish and get more out of every dive. From angelfish to lionfish, this dry course covers Caribbean, Indo-Pacific and Red Sea species. Open to everyone, no diving experience required.
Perfect Buoyancy Specialty
€221
Duration: 1 day (2 dives)
Max. Depth: 18-30 m
Master the skill that separates good divers from great ones. Perfect buoyancy protects the reef, improves air consumption and makes every dive more relaxed and enjoyable.
Photo & Video Specialty
€237
Duration: 1 day (2 dives)
Max. Depth: 30 m
Learn to use an underwater camera, compose a shot and capture the incredible marine life of the Red Sea. Bring your own camera and we will take care of the rest. Your dives will never look the same again.
