

Step up to teaching scuba with the SSI Open Water Instructor programme at Sipadan, training on the calm macro reefs of Mabul Island before testing your diving on the legendary Sipadan walls. SSI's flexible, digital-first instructor track lets you rehearse classroom, confined-water and open-water teaching to professional standards in a forgiving tropical setting. You leave qualified to certify SSI divers and join a worldwide network of dive professionals.
SSI delivers instructor training through authorised dive centres and Instructor Trainers, with assessment at an Instructor Evaluation. On passing you become a recognised SSI Open Water Instructor, able to teach the full range of SSI programmes you are rated for, with credentials stored in your SSI digital logbook.
Teaching practice is based on the sheltered house reefs off Mabul Island and the macro sites around Kapalai, with the deep walls of Sipadan available to keep your own logged-dive count and diving current during the April-to-October peak season.

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