Course overview

Earn your first SSI professional rating with the Divemaster programme in Djibouti, guiding and assisting on the calm Gulf of Tadjoura where Red Sea and Indian Ocean waters meet. Through SSI's modular, experience-driven system you build leadership skills, dive-theory knowledge and the dive count to lead certified divers at quiet, reef-rich sites. The SSI Divemaster rating opens the door to a career in diving.

What you’ll learn

• Guide certified divers safely on local reef and current sites
• Apply SSI dive-theory knowledge across physics, physiology and dive planning
• Demonstrate core scuba skills to professional standard
• Assist instructors with students in pool and open-water sessions
• Plan dives, map sites and manage diver-emergency scenarios
• Complete watermanship and rescue assessments

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 18
• SSI Advanced Adventurer or equivalent certification
• SSI Diver Stress & Rescue certification
• Current CPR, first-aid and oxygen-provider training
• Specialty certifications and logged dives to SSI Divemaster requirements (typically 40+)
• Diver medical clearance signed by a physician

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
   Science of Diving

   Work through SSI dive-theory modules and complete watermanship assessments.
2. Day2
   Skill refinement

   Bring core skills to professional standard and run the rescue-assessment exercise.
3. Day3
   Assisting and mapping

   Assist instructors with students and complete a site-mapping project on a local reef.
4. Day4
   Guiding certified divers

   Plan, brief and lead certified divers on Gulf of Tadjoura reef sites under supervision.
5. Day5
   Emergency planning and review

   Build an emergency-management plan, finalise assessments and verify your logbook.

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