

Step up from leading dives to teaching them with the SSI Open Water Instructor programme in Hikkaduwa, on Sri Lanka's south coast. The calm, warm reefs of this established dive town give instructor candidates a controlled, forgiving classroom to build and assess their teaching skills before the Instructor Evaluation. You complete the training certified to teach SSI programmes and join a global network of dive professionals.
SSI uses a digital, recognition-based training system; your instructor rating is logged in the SSI app and recognised worldwide. After completing the Instructor Training Course you must pass an SSI Instructor Evaluation to be authorised to teach, and you affiliate through an SSI Training Centre.
Instructor workshops run on Hikkaduwa's sheltered house reef and coral gardens, where calm seas and warm 27-29°C water across the November-to-April season give candidates a settled environment to refine confined- and open-water teaching before evaluation.

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