Course overview

Get dive-ready for Phuket with the SSI Scuba Skills Update, a refresher for certified divers returning after time away. You review safety knowledge through MySSI and rehearse essential skills in calm, shallow water before heading out to the Andaman Sea's reefs. It is the safe, confidence-building way to begin a Phuket dive holiday.

What you’ll learn

• Review dive theory and safety procedures
• Set up and check your scuba equipment
• Practise mask clearing and regulator recovery
• Restore buoyancy control
• Revisit emergency and air-sharing skills
• Rebuild confidence before open-water diving

Prerequisites

• Existing SSI (or recognised) diver certification
• Ideal after a break from diving, no recent-dive minimum
• Reasonable health and a completed medical questionnaire
• Comfortable in water

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

   MySSI knowledge review and a confined-water skills session, followed by an optional guided open-water dive on a sheltered Phuket reef.

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