Course overview

SSI Search & Recovery teaches you to locate and safely lift lost objects from the seabed around Sharm El Sheikh, using search patterns and lift bags in clear Red Sea conditions. Over training dives toward 30m you learn methodical underwater searching and controlled recovery. It is a practical, problem-solving specialty that sharpens your navigation and buoyancy at the same time.

What you’ll learn

Prerequisites

What's included · What's not

Included
  • SSI digital search & recovery materials
  • Search-pattern training dives toward 30m
  • Lift-bag rigging and use
  • Knot and line-handling practice
  • Repeatable skill drills to mastery
  • SSI Search & Recovery specialty digital card
Not included
  • Flights and airport transfers
  • Accommodation
  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenses
  • Gratuities

The SSI Search & Recovery pathway

SSI offers free digital materials and a performance-based structure for repeating search and rigging skills, recorded on your SSI digital card; the specialty counts toward the SSI Master Diver rating.

Where you'll dive in Sharm El Sheikh

Sandy-bottomed and reef-edge sites around Sharm provide ideal terrain for search patterns at depths up to 30m, where 20-30m visibility makes it easier to learn methodical searching and safe lift-bag ascents in calm 24-28C water.

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