Course overview

The SSI Basic Diver program is your first real step into certified diving in South Ari Atoll, letting you dive to 12m with an SSI professional on the atoll's warm house reefs. It is a flexible start that credits toward Scuba Diver or Open Water within six months.

What you’ll learn

• Assembling and handling scuba gear
• Buoyancy and breathing control
• Equalisation and mask skills
• Underwater hand signals
• Safe diving procedures to 12m

Prerequisites

• 10 years or older
• Comfortable in water
• Good general health

What's included · What's not

Probability of sightings · month-by-month

What you're likely to see each month, based on historic operator logs.

Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Skills & confidence

   Practise core skills in confined water under an SSI professional's guidance.
2. Day2
   Reef dive

   Apply your skills on a guided open-water dive to 12m on the house reef.

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