Course overview

Take your first breaths underwater with the SSI Try Scuba experience in Raja Ampat, set among the Coral Triangle's extraordinary reefs. Guided one-on-one by an SSI professional, you practise basic skills and explore the calm shallows near Mansuar Island to a maximum of 12 metres, with no certification or experience required.

What you’ll learn

• Breathe underwater comfortably on scuba
• Clear your mask and recover the regulator
• Equalise and descend gently
• Maintain basic buoyancy and movement
• Use simple underwater hand signals
• Dive with direct SSI professional supervision

Prerequisites

• No experience or certification required
• Minimum age 10
• Comfortable in the water
• Complete a basic medical questionnaire (physician sign-off if needed)

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
   First underwater experience

   Orientation and shallow-water skills, then a guided reef dive to 12 metres near Mansuar Island.

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