Course overview

Earn your SSI Open Water Instructor rating off Neil Island (Shaheed Dweep), the quietest of the Andaman dive bases, where low-volume operations let an instructor trainer give your teaching development unusually close mentoring. Skill circuits run on sheltered reefs near Coral Safari, while open-water teaching evaluations move to The Wall's deeper profile.

What you’ll learn

• Teach SSI academic, pool and open-water sessions
• Demonstrate core skills to professional standard
• Supervise and evaluate student divers
• Apply SSI training standards and digital systems
• Prepare for the SSI Instructor Evaluation

Prerequisites

• 18 years or older
• Certified Divemaster for 6+ months
• 100+ logged dives
• Valid CPR/first-aid certificate and medical clearance

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
   ITC start

   Standards orientation and dive-theory baseline using SSI digital materials.
2. Day5
   Pool teaching

   Build performance-based skill demonstrations you can repeat until mastered.
3. Day9
   Open-water teaching

   Lead practice training dives on local reef sites.
4. Day12
   Instructor Evaluation

   Independent SSI examiner assesses your teaching across all components.

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