Course overview

Train to teach across the SSI system in Sharm El Sheikh, where year-round Red Sea diving and a wealth of reefs, walls and wrecks make ideal instructor terrain. The SSI Instructor programme builds your teaching, standards and risk-management skills before the Instructor Training Course and exam. It opens the door to a professional diving career anywhere SSI is taught.

What you’ll learn

• Teaching the SSI diver-training curriculum
• Confined and open-water teaching delivery
• Digital learning and DiveSSI platform use
• Standards and risk management
• Instructor-level skill demonstration

Prerequisites

• SSI Dive Guide / Divemaster
• React Right or equivalent current
• Minimum age 18
• Logged-dive requirement met
• Certified 6+ months
• 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
   Teaching foundations

   Presentation skills and the SSI training system.
2. Day2
   In-water teaching

   Confined and open-water teaching practice on Sharm reefs.
3. Day3
   Standards and exam prep

   Standards, assessments and Instructor Training Course preparation.

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