SSI Recreational Courses

Basic Diver

Practical experience for future divers

To truly enjoy your first trip under water you need a guide you can trust completely. A competent, well trained SSI Dive Leader will teach you everything you need to know. Under their guidance, you will learn all required skills and become completely comfortable with the equipment you're using during your first underwater adventure.

Program Description

If you have some dive experiences already within the last 6 month, you can join a half-day trip to a local dive site and dive with an instructor.

- Short knowledge / water skills sessions.
- 1 shallow scuba dive in open water, max. 5 meters.
- 1 dive to a max. depth of 12 meters
Lets you experience scuba diving without committing to an entire course.

Price
4.200 THB

every Wednesday or Friday


If you don't have any dive experience, you need to practice at the pool first, to be safer and more comfortable in the open water.

- Short Knowledge
- Pool Skills sessions which are similar to the Scuba Diver course, in case you like to continue.
- 1 shallow scuba dive in open water, max. 5 meters.
- 1 dive to a max. depth of 12 meters
Lets you experience scuba diving without committing to an entire course.

Price
6.700 THB

every Tuesday-Wednesday or Thursday-Friday

Minimum age 10 years


Start now with the registration for your free online training.
(please select your language and register yourself under 82220 Takua Pa > iQ-DIVE!)

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Advanced Adventurer

Underwater Adventures as you learn new skills

You will have the chance to try out 5 different specialties during the Advanced Adventurer Program. You will complete one open water training dive per specialty in order to get a better understanding for each specialty area.

You can choose to complete all or just a few of your selected specialties later through a Specialty Course by completing the second dive and finishing all academic requirements. Choose your preferred Specialty areas and continue your adventure right after your Open Water Diver Program!

Program Description
Theory in self-study.
5 dives from the Specialty program.
Emphasis on learning during actual open water dives.
Each dive credited toward corresponding Specialty Diver program.
Develops skills in and introduces you to deep diving & underwater navigation (obligatory) and three from eight specialty dives which you and your instructor choose.

You can choose from the following list of Specialties
Perfect Buoyancy*
Deep Diving*
Navigation
Wreck Diving*
Photo and Video
Search and Recovery
Boat Diving*
Waves, Tides and Currents
Enriched Air Nitrox
Coral Identification
Fish Identification
Marine Ecology / Underwater Naturalist
Sea Turtle Ecology
Shark Ecology

* Minimum Age: 12 years (Deep 15 years).

More Informationen about Advanced Scuba Training

Diver Stress and Rescue

Practical skills presented and evaluated in the "Apply First Aid" program

Primary and Secondary Assessments
Emergency Action Planning
Bleeding Traumas
Shock
Bites, Stings and Envenomation
Head & Eye Injuries
Fractures & Soft Tissue Injuries
Thermal Trauma
O2 provider (optional + 3.000 THB, duration ½ day)

The course is designed to train and educate the general diving public in the techniques of using oxygen as first aid for a suspected dive injury. In addition, this course will introduce novice divers to the fundamentals of recognizing diving injury warning signs, response and management. This program also provides an excellent opportunity for experienced divers and instructors to continue their education.

Prior to the first class you will need the O2 Provider manual. In addition, a pocket mask is required (available from our staff for purchase).