Course overview

Get dive-ready again with the SSI Scuba Skills Update refresher in Moalboal, Cebu. After time out of the water, you review essential knowledge and re-practise core skills in shallow water before a guided dive on the gentle Panagsama Beach house reef, restoring your confidence among turtles and the famous sardine school. You finish refreshed and ready to explore Moalboal's reefs.

What you’ll learn

• Review dive theory, planning and safety basics
• Re-practise mask clearing, regulator recovery and buoyancy
• Refresh equipment assembly and pre-dive checks
• Revisit buddy procedures and hand signals
• Rebuild comfort on a guided open-water dive
• Update your knowledge of current best practice

Prerequisites

• Existing scuba certification (SSI or recognised equivalent)
• Recommended after several months of inactivity
• Diver medical questionnaire / physician's clearance where indicated
• No minimum number of previous dives

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
   Skills update & dive

   Digital knowledge review and a shallow-water skills refresh off Panagsama Beach, then a guided dive on the gentle house reef.

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