Course overview

Tailor your diving to Rasdhoo Atoll's strengths with SSI Specialty Courses, choosing from focused programs such as Deep, Perfect Buoyancy, Navigation, Night, Enriched Air Nitrox and Shark Ecology. Each specialty sharpens a specific skill set on the atoll's reefs, walls and channels, and completed specialties stack toward SSI Specialty Diver and Master Diver recognition.

What you’ll learn

• Develop targeted skills in your chosen specialty area
• Apply specialty techniques in real atoll conditions
• Improve buoyancy, navigation or depth control as relevant
• Understand the marine ecology behind shark and reef encounters
• Plan and conduct specialty dives safely
• Build toward SSI Specialty Diver and Master Diver recognition

Prerequisites

• SSI Open Water Diver or equivalent (higher for deep and some specialties)
• Minimum age varies by specialty (typically 10-15)
• Relevant prior experience for advanced specialties
• Diver medical clearance signed by a physician if any condition applies

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
   Theory & first specialty dives

   Digital learning for your chosen specialty, then the first open-water dives applying the new skills at a suitable local site.
2. Day2
   Specialty dives & certification

   Further specialty dives to complete the program, followed by digital certification.

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