Continue your diving adventure with advanced training!
How far do you want to go?
Be prepared for every diving opportunity. Our specialized training courses provide you with the skills and experience that you need to get the most from your sport. Our goal is to prepare you for the adventures that lie ahead, as well as make certain that you have a good time doing it!
As you complete advanced training courses and gain experience by diving, you can earn additional diver ratings.
Taking a specific number of specialties and continuing your pursuit of dives allows you to earn higher levels of diver ratings. SSI’s ratings are the only ratings in the industry that combine training and experience requirements, proving that SSI ratings are truly earned.
SSI Advanced Adventurer
The optional Advanced Adventurer can be the entry to continuing education, especially for those divers who cannot decide which specialty courses they want to learn. During the Advanced Adventurer Program, you will have the chance to try out 5 different specialties. You will complete one open water training dive per specialty in order to get a better understanding of each specialty area. Later, you can choose to complete all or just a few of your selected specialties through a Specialty Course by completing the second dive and finishing all academic requirements.
SSI Specialty Diver
SSI’s intermediate diver rating is higher than any other agency’s advanced courses. To earn the certification for Specialty Diver, you must complete 2 specialty courses and have done a total of 12 dives.
SSI Advanced Adventurer
The optional Advanced Adventurer can be the entry to continuing education, especially for those divers who cannot decide which specialty courses they want to learn. During the Advanced Adventurer Program, you will have the chance to try out 5 different specialties. You will complete one open water training dive per specialty in order to get a better understanding of each specialty area. Later, you can choose to complete all or just a few of your selected specialties through a Specialty Course by completing the second dive and finishing all academic requirements.
SSI Specialty Diver
SSI’s intermediate diver rating is higher than any other agency’s advanced courses. To earn the certification for Specialty Diver, you must complete 2 specialty courses and have done a total of 12 dives.
Choose from many of our individual Specialty Courses
Scuba Schools of America & Swim teaches a variety of specialty courses that will take your diving to the next level. Learn how to navigate your underwater world, dive deep, or even dive at night. Specialty courses will make you a safer diver and a better buddy. Learn about diving on Nitrox or learn important safety information in Stress & Rescue. There is much to see and do under the water and Scuba Schools of America & Swim, wants you to enjoy the seas for a lifetime.
Knowledge. Using the SSI education system you will learn the information about specific types of specialty diving that would take you years of diving to learn on your own.
Skills. Under the guidance of The Dive Shop’s Professional Instructors, you will learn the correct skills and techniques associated with the specialties of your choice to make you a more comfortable and confident diver.
Equipment. You will learn how to use an expanded range of equipment to help you make your dives more enjoyable and worthwhile.
| CPR/First Aid/AED & O2 Administration | Spear Fishing |
| Dry Suit Diving | Equipment Techniques |
| Deep Diving | Underwater Navigation |
| Search & Recovery | Science of Diving |
| EAN/Nitrox Diving | Night Diving |
| Underwater Photography | Boat Diving |
| Wreck Diving | Stress & Rescue Diver |
| Oxygen Administration | Nitrox Diver |