Course overview

Add wreck diving to your skill set with the SSI Wreck Diving specialty in Moalboal, Cebu, using the accessible airplane wreck off Panagsama Beach as a real training site. You learn to survey, map and navigate a wreck safely while honing buoyancy and finning in warm, easy Visayan water. You finish with the SSI Wreck Diving certification, ready to enjoy the region's wrecks within safe limits.

What you’ll learn

• Plan wreck dives and assess hazards around sunken structures
• Survey, map and document a wreck
• Navigate a wreck using reels and guidelines
• Maintain precise buoyancy and trim to avoid silt-outs
• Use specialised wreck-diving equipment
• Apply emergency and entanglement-management procedures

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 15
• SSI Advanced Adventurer or equivalent / suitable logged dives
• Comfort with buoyancy control near the bottom
• Diver medical questionnaire / physician's clearance where indicated

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
   Survey & mapping

   Academic review and two dives on the airplane wreck off Panagsama Beach focusing on survey, mapping and navigation.
2. Day2
   Lines & buoyancy

   Two more dives drilling reel and guideline use, trim and silt-management to specialty standard.

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