SSI Dive Guide

Do you dream of having a career in diving? The SSI Dive Guide course will teach you to lead other certified divers underwater, giving you the skills and experience to ensure others can enjoy your passion safely.

Description

The SSI Dive Guide course gives you the skills and experience to lead groups of certified divers safely and is the first step towards a career as an SSI Dive Professional.

Once you have successfully completed the certification, you'll be able to work for SSI Dive Centres throughout the world in a variety of environments, leading divers safely, inspiring them and have a deep knowledge of diving.

Structure

The SSI Dive Guide course teaches you to be a leader who can supervise scuba diving activities. Our SSI Dive Guide course runs more like an internship, allowing you to complete the course at a pace that suits you and get far more experience than an 'intensive' course, making you a better guide.

There will be knowledge development sessions, water skills exercises and hands-on practical assessments. Topics and assessments include:

  • Supervising dive activities and assisting student divers
  • Dive setup and management
  • Mapping an open water dive site
  • Conducting dive briefings
  • Assisting instructors
  • Awareness of our dive environments
  • Diver safety and risk management

You will attend our pool sessions and open water sessions for all of our courses as well as a number of other training sessions that are just for our dive guides and instructors.

Why Learn with Ocean Quest

Ocean Quest has been teaching people to scuba dive for almost 25 years, having been established in 1998. Based in Cardiff, Swansea and Porthcawl our instructors have taught thousands of others to dive all over the world and have dived all four corners of the world themselves.

Ocean Quest is an award winning scuba diving training centre and South Wales' oldest too, so you couldn't be in more experienced hands. Dive in now!

Our prices are fully inclusive, including:

  • Fully Qualified Professional Instruction
  • All Scuba Diving equipment hire
  • Cylinder tanks and air fills
  • Comprehensive Professional Centre Insurance

SSI Certifications & Courses

SSI Try Scuba

Feel what it's like to breath underwater, go scuba diving in confined water and earn the SSI Try Scuba recognition card. 

Conducted in our swimming pool, the SSI Try Scuba program is a diving adventure the whole family can enjoy.
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SSI Open Water Diver

The SSI Open Water Diver certification will allow you to dive anywhere in the world, with whoever you want. 

This globally recognised certification is your first step in your scuba diving journey. Explore the hidden underwater world!
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SSI Advanced Adventurer

After you've completed the SSI Open Water Diver certification, this is the next step. With the SSI Advanced Adventurer, you'll learn to extend your dive times, reduce your air consumption and dive deeper.  
You'll start to become a confident and safe diver whose comfortable underwater.
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SSI Specialties

Continue you diving adventure by improving specific skills or learning a completely new specialty. Diver deeper, perfect your buoyancy, take great photos, understand the tides or learn to deal with stress and rescue situations. 

There's 18 specialties to choose from.
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SSI Dive Guide

Do you dream of having a career in diving? 

The SSI Dive Guide course will teach you to lead other certified divers underwater, giving you the skills and experience to ensure others can enjoy your passion safely.
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