SSI Open Water Instructor
SSI Open Water Instructor (OWI). This program will teach you how to develop
confident and comfortable divers who will commit to the sport of Scuba Diving.
The role of the SSI Scuba Instructor is vitally important - instructors are ambassadors, delivering enlightened and innovative scuba instruction to those wishing to learn to Scuba Diving. People put their trust in you and you teach them how to breathe underwater for the first time! It is an exciting and rewarding career - but it is also a responsibility not to be taken lightly. Once qualified as a SSI Open Water Instructor you can work all over the world. You can supplement your income, teach part time or follow a full time in exotic locations - the choice is yours. If you have a passion for scuba diving and believe it is crucial people receive the best scuba instruction, then the SSI Open Water Instructor can give you the skills to deliver.
Your training includes learning:
- How various industry stakeholders interact
- How successful dive retailers and resorts operate
- SSI Customer Loyalty cycle
- Techniques for teaching Stress Rescue
- The legal aspects of teaching
- The basics of using ODIN
As an SSI Open Water Instructor (OWI) you can teach and issue certifications for:
- SSI Indoor Diver
- SSI Scuba Diver
- SSI Scuba Rangers
- SSI Junior Open Water Diver
- SSI Open Water Diver
- SSI Advanced Adventure
- SSI Stress Rescue
- SSI Scuba Skills Update
- SSI Try Scuba
- SSI Try Scuba Diving
SSI Open Water Instructor program prepares you to become an active member of the scuba industry, a sucessful educator, and a valuable dive business employee.
The SSI Open Water Instructor (OWI) course information on pricing to follow.
*After your successful completion of the SSI Open Water Instructor (OWI) course, candidates must successfully complete the 2 day SSI Instructor Examination (IE). Candidates will be evaluated on dive theory, academic teaching, confined-water (pool) teaching, rescue skills, open-water teaching and general diving skills and professionalism.
