SSI Professional Onboarding from $1950
Join the SSI family and become part of the worlds fastest training agency
SSI was created in the United States in 1970 by a small group of dive store owners. Their goal was to offer more comprehensive training solutions for dive stores. The result today is that SSI not only leads the industry in the quality of training material, but it supports SSI stores and their dive professionals with flexible training, paperless systems and financial incentives.
Why join SSI?
Over the past several years, more and more dive stores around the world have switched to SSI. So for many dive professionals, becoming an SSI professional creates more job opportunities.
But there’s more reasons than this.
- Annual memberships fees are significantly lower than other training agencies.
- Professional financial incentives. With every course completed, the instructor receives SSI points. These points tally up at the end of the year and act as credit against your renewal fees. So the more you teach, the less you have to pay at renewal time.
- SSI flexibility rule. Instructors have the freedom to adjust the skill order and course pacing to suit individual learning needs. Of course, the skills still needs to be in order of complexity i.e you cannot teach a mask removal before teaching a partial flood followed by a full flooded mask.
If you are an active scuba instructor or divemaster certified by a training agency like RAID, PADI or SDI, you can onboard/crossover to SSI to teach their programs.
How to Start: Download the MySSI App to register a free account and access the digital onboarding tool.
Local In-Person Training: To complete your in-water evaluations and academic cross-overs, visit your local authorized SSI Pro Training Center, such as us Dive Now Whangārei.
SSI professional onboarding Requirements:
- Must have held an equivalent certification from a recognized training agency.
- Must meet the minimum certification requirements for the certification being crossed over.
- Be at least 18 years old
- Hold a dive medical from the past 12 months,
- Maintain a current React Right/First Aid certification.
- If a dive professional has been inactive with another agency for greater than five (5) years, they must follow the Returning to Active Status standards.
Being an SSI Dive Professional
Must affiliate to an SSI dive centre.
- An SSI dive professional cannot independently teach. This is to support the local SSI dive centres which then fully support their instructors.
Course schedule/layout
Course Schedule
Transportation is not provided by Dive Now. If you need help with transport we can arrange this for you on the daily shuttle to Whangarei town and back, so just get in touch.
