Scuba Schools International is a worldwide diver certification agency and educational support organization. Recognized as an innovative leader in diver education, we create state-of-the-art training programs, training standards and materials for all levels of diver education.
The SSI Organization is set up to deliver quality. SSI Instructors can only teach at SSI Training Facilities, which are carefully screened to ensure they meet our standards. SSI Instructors use our highly-effective water training method called Comfort Through Repetition. Scuba skills become second nature, so you can relax and enjoy yourself when you go diving.

SSI is the only organization in the industry with this level of quality control and accountability. This means you can have confidence in everyone associated with Scuba Schools International.

SSI divers are respected all over the world because of SSI’s reputation for training excellent divers. With over 1,900 Authorized Dealers in 90 countries, your SSI certification card will be welcomed anywhere you want to dive.

Diving is much easier than you might think! Be ready to enjoy the experience and dive into a new world!

TRY SCUBA DIVING the program to begin your diving career. A well trained SSI Instructor will teach you the proper knowledge and skills required for your experience in the underwater world. At the end of this program you will experience an unforgettable dive with your SSI Instructor.

Minimum age: 10
Recommended time: 3 hours
Price: 2500 baht

Your ticket to the underwater world – the OPEN WATER DIVER certificate. Your SSI Student Manual, DVD and water training sessions combined will help you learn everything you need to know to start your adventure the fun and correct way. The SSI Student Manual includes study guide questions at the end of each section to help you retain your new knowledge and test your retention. During your SSI Open Water Diver training sessions you will learn all of the necessary skills and safe diving procedures to be a comfortable confident diver.

SSI Open Water Diver certification cards are recognized throughout the world. They entitle you to dive with other certified divers, enable you to purchase/rent equipment and obtain air fills anywhere you choose to dive.

Minimum age: 15
Minimum age: 10 (Junior Open Water)
Recommended time: 3 to 4 days
Price: 9500 THB

If you want to improve your diving skills and learn about different topics you can do underwater, this course is for you! More relaxed than Open Water Course, since you already know how to dive, no exams! This course is based on diving and doing the things you’d love to do underwater, and the goal is to gain experience and to began more confident. There is a list of more than 20 different elective dives to chose from, just to mention a few; deep diver, drift diver, night diver, cavern diver, multilevel diver, research diver, wreck diver, underwater hunter, u-w naturalist, u-w navigator, u-w photographer, u-w videographer, u-w scooter… etc.

This course is a good idea to take for example straight after your Open Water Diver Course!

Course structure: 5 dives, 5 different topics (2 core dives, deep and navigation and 3 dives of your own choice)

Minimum age: 15
Minimum age: 12 (Junior Advanced Open Water)
Minimun training: Open Water Diver or qualifying rating (CMAS 1)
Recommended time: 2 to 3 days
Price: 8000 thb

Who would not rather dive with a buddy who knows CPR or basic medical first aid? Excellent medical course also for non divers. This certification or qualifying rating you need for example to be certified as a PADI Rescue Diver or PADI Divemaster.

Course structure: Academics, video and practical training.

Minimum age: -
Minimum training: -
Recommended time: 4 to 8 hours
Price: 4000 thb

“Be prepared for those unexpected emergencies.”

Stress is a major contributor to rescue situations and diving accidents. Through this course you will learn accident prevention, as well as how to handle problem situations if they occur.

The program is about avoiding, recognizing and solving problems on the surface and under water. The course runs two – four days in which you will participate in academic and in-water sessions in the pool and in the open water. As a prerequisite for certification you need to have a valid CPR & First Aid certificate.

Minimum age: 15
Minimum age: 12 (Junior Rescue Diver)
Minimum training: SSI Open Water Diver, PADI Advanced Open Water or qualifying rating (CMAS 2)
Recommended time: 3 to 4 days
Price: 10000 thb

7 REASONS – WHY SSI IS THE CHOICE OF THE PROFESSIONAL DIVE LEADER…

The SSI Dealer Network is expanding so rapidly that the demand for full and part-time SSI Instructors and Dive Control Specialists exceeds the supply.

With over 35 years as a valuable partner in the diving industry, SSI Training is revered as a sign of the highest quality. And SSI offers an entire range of programs from children´s diving to technical diving.

The SSI Total Teaching System is the most flexible training system on the market. The possibility to adjust the standards to environmental needs allows SSI Dive Leaders to provide real life programs in order to teach safe and responsible divers.

SSI’s Dive Leader Training Programs will teach you what it takes to work successfuly in the retail environment, the ins and outs of the diving industry, how to sell dive trips and equipment, and what it takes to produce confident, comfortable divers. The SSI Teaching System supports the SSI Dive Leader through State of the Art Training Materials and a modern Teaching Philosophy.

SSI Instructors have the added benefit of teaching through a scuba school run by an SSI Dealer. As an instructor, you have access to professional facilities, training equipment, equipment service and repair, organized diving opportunitites, quality promotional campaigns, group insurance and complete diver support. This allows you to avoid all the problems that arise for independents and frees you to do what you love: work with students.

Recapture the feeling of total confidence after a longer period without diving by updating the skills learned in your Open Water Diver course.

Knowledge. Your Scuba Skills Update Dive Leader will review the knowledge you learned in your Open Water Diver class as well as cover any new material. You will review dive planning, dive tables and dive execution to keep you safe during future diving activities.

Skills. In the Scuba Skills Update you will have the opportunity to practice and review the scuba skills you learned in your open water diver class and learn techniques that that may have changed. You will have the opportunity to refresh your memory and motor coordination, as well as practice your self-aid skills – all under the guidance of a dive leader.

Equipment. The scuba skills update is a great opportunity to re-learn your current equipment, or the perfect time to learn about and adjust your new equipment with the guidance of a dive leader.

With this type of preparation you will be able to experience more relaxed dives.

Minimum age: -
Minimum training: -
Recommended time: 6 hours
Price: 2000 thb