Earn your first SSI professional rating with the SSI Dive Guide / Divemaster programme based at Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island, where leading certified divers through genuine currents develops rare confidence. You guide and supervise across sites from easy Santa Fe to the hammerhead-rich Gordon Rocks crater, learning the SSI way of dive leadership. You qualify to guide certified divers and assist on SSI programmes worldwide.
SSI's first professional rating is the Dive Guide, with the Divemaster rating adding student-assistance skills. Both are earned through an SSI Professional Training Centre and qualify you to guide certified divers and support instructors across the global SSI network.
Training runs from Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz, using gentle sites like Santa Fe and North Seymour for supervised guiding and stronger sites like Gordon Rocks for advanced current briefings. The cool, nutrient-rich water and June-to-November upwelling create an outstanding professional training environment.
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