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Start from scratch or continue advancing your diver training.

Get your SSI certification in Barcelona and dive all over the world

This is how SSI training works

Supplementary Security Income allows you to follow a Clear path from your first dives up to more advanced levels. You can start from scratch, get your first certification, and from there, continue with advanced programmes and specific specialities. As you complete specialities and log dives, SSI recognises you with new titles that reflect your real experience as a diver.

«Progressive, flexible training designed for you to truly advance in the world of diving.»

Start from scratch

You can begin your training. no previous experience and build a solid foundation from the first step.

Progressively advance

SSI is designed to Developments little by little, gaining security, technique, and confidence at each stage.

SSI Recognition

Supplementary Security Income recognise your evolution with different qualifications as you complete courses, Specialities and dives.

Gain real water experience

It's not just theory: your progress is built on logged dives and practical experience.

Specialise in what you love the most

As you advance, you can choose specific specialities according to your diving style and your objectives.

Create your own dive route

Everyone moves at their own pace. You decide how to grow within the system according to your experience and motivation.

Your first step: Open Water Diver

If you want to get off to a good start in diving, this is the real starting point. From here you can continue to advance, gain experience and discover what kind of diver you want to be.

Price from €450

Start your SSI dive training

The Open Water Diver it is Most important initial certification within recreational diving.

It's the course with which you learn the real basics: theory, practice, and essential techniques for diving safely and independently with a buddy of equal or higher level, in environments equivalent to your training and to depths below 18 metres.

Furthermore, it is a certification internationally recognised.

Before Open Water: Scuba Diver Option

PRICE FROM €350

Your first time, for sure

If you prefer to start more progressively, SSI also offers the Scuba Diver programme, a shorter option designed for those who want to try diving without doing a full Open Water Diver course yet.

With this training, you will learn the essential fundamentals and gain a Certification enabling you to dive to 12 metres always accompanied by an SSI professional.

It is a very useful alternative for Gain confidence in the water and progress at your own pace.

Furthermore, you can easily update this training later on Open Water Diver and thus complete the full certification without starting from scratch.

Your next step: Advanced Open Water

Once you're an Open Water Diver, you can continue progressing in two ways: by exploring different types of diving or by going straight into specific specialties.

The Advanced Open Water Diver programme it is intended as a practical way to try different areas before deciding on which specialities you want to focus on.

You will carry out 5 dives en DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS discipline, which will allow you gain experience, improve your comfort underwater and better understand what type of diving suits you.

If you're unsure which specialties to choose, the Advanced Open Water Diver is the best way to try them out, gain experience, and define your path as a diver.

But if you're already clear on what type of diving interests you, we'll recommend heading straight to Specialities, so that your progression is faster, more efficient, and more adapted for you.

SSI Specialties: The Next Level

After the Open Water Diver, and also after the Advanced Open Water Diver, Yes, you can start doing SSI specialties.

This is where you training becomes much more personal. Instead of following a closed path, you choose the areas that really interest you: improve your buoyancy, orient yourself better, dive deeper, go on night dives, explore wrecks, and much more.

Each specialisation you complete gives you a self-certification. In other words, you don't just advance through “levels,” but also through concrete and applicable experience in the water.

«SSI offers more than 20 specialities within its advanced training.»

Examples of some SSI specialities:

Perfect buoyancy

Deep diving

Wreck diving

SSI Recognitions: How you progress through the levels

As Complete specialities and log dives, SSI it grants you various automatic recognitions that reflect your progress as a diver.

You get this recognition when you complete 2 SSI specialties and you have 12 recorded dives.

You get this recognition when you complete 4 SSI specialties and you have 24 dives logged.

It is one of the highest recreational accolades of Supplementary Security Income

YOU NEED TO COMPLETE: Deep Diving, Diver Stress & Rescue, 3 additional specialities and have 50 logged dives.

«The important thing here is to understand one thing: in SSI advances because you train in reality and gain real experience, Not just because you move from one course to another without any problem.»