SSI CONTINUING EDUCATION AT diving RABAC
Experience More. Dive Safer. Take the Next Step.
Already a certified diver and looking to improve your skills, explore new diving opportunities or prepare for new challenges? At diving RABAC, you’ll find a wide range of SSI continuing education courses and specialties. From refresher courses to advanced specialisations, we’ll guide you through the next stage of your diving journey.
GET BACK IN THE WATER & PROGRESS
Refresher & Advanced Training
Looking to return to diving safely after a break or build on your existing experience? With the SSI Scuba Skills Update and Advanced Open Water Diver programmes, diving RABAC offers the perfect opportunities to take your next step.
SSI Scuba Skills Update
Has it been a while since your last dive? The SSI Scuba Skills Update helps you refresh your knowledge and practical diving skills. Together with a dive professional, you’ll review essential diving fundamentals and regain confidence in handling your diving equipment.
This refresher programme is designed for certified divers returning to diving after an extended break. It is not a new entry-level course and does not replace your existing diving certification.
SSI Advanced Open Water Diver
With the SSI Advanced Open Water Diver programme, you’ll expand your diving education through five different training dives. Deep Diving and Navigation are mandatory, while you and your instructor select three additional training dives from eligible SSI Specialties.
During these five dives, you’ll gain practical experience in different areas of recreational diving and further develop your skills. Upon successful completion, you’ll receive your SSI Advanced Open Water Diver certification. The completed training dives can later be credited towards the corresponding full SSI Specialty programmes.
DEVELOP YOUR DIVING SKILLS
Diving Skills & Equipment
Good diving skills make every dive safer, more relaxed and more enjoyable. With our SSI Specialties, you can improve your buoyancy, navigation and dive planning, become familiar with different types of equipment and expand your underwater capabilities.
SSI Perfect Buoyancy
Good buoyancy control is one of the most important skills in diving. In the SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty, you’ll improve your trim, buoyancy control and movement underwater. This helps you dive more comfortably, optimise your gas consumption and better protect the delicate underwater environment.
SSI Navigation
Learn to navigate confidently underwater. In the SSI Navigation Specialty, you’ll practise using a compass, natural navigation techniques, distance estimation and different navigation patterns. These skills will help you find your way more easily, even at unfamiliar dive sites.
SSI Computer Diving
Modern dive computers offer much more than simply displaying depth and dive time. In the SSI Computer Diving Specialty, you’ll learn about the key functions of your dive computer and how to use it effectively when planning, conducting and reviewing your dives.
SSI Enriched Air Nitrox
In the SSI Enriched Air Nitrox Specialty, you’ll learn the fundamentals of diving with oxygen-enriched air. You’ll explore Nitrox dive planning, oxygen limits, gas analysis and the safe handling of different breathing gas mixtures. Depending on the course option you choose, you can earn a Nitrox 32 or Nitrox 40 certification.
SSI Dry Suit Diving
A dry suit allows you to dive comfortably even in colder water temperatures. In the SSI Dry Suit Diving Specialty, you’ll learn how to use your dry suit correctly, manage buoyancy and follow important safety procedures specific to dry suit diving.
SSI Boat Diving
Many fascinating dive sites can only be reached by boat. In the SSI Boat Diving Specialty, you’ll learn how to safely prepare for and conduct boat dives. This includes handling equipment on board, appropriate entry and exit techniques, and essential safety procedures for boat diving.
DISCOVER NEW DIVING EXPERIENCES
Challenging Diving Environments
Every dive site presents different challenges depending on your skills and experience. With our SSI Specialties, you’ll prepare for a variety of diving conditions, discover new opportunities and learn how to safely plan and conduct more demanding dives.
SSI Night & Limited Visibility
Diving at night or in limited visibility offers a completely new perspective on the underwater world. In the SSI Night & Limited Visibility Specialty, you’ll learn proper dive preparation, how to use dive lights, special communication techniques and how to navigate safely in reduced visibility.
SSI Deep Diving
As diving depth increases, so do the demands on planning, equipment and safety. In the SSI Deep Diving Specialty, you’ll learn how to safely prepare for and conduct deeper recreational dives within your certification limits. The focus is on gas management, dive planning and understanding depth-related risks.
SSI Wreck Diving
Wrecks are among the most fascinating dive sites in the Adriatic. In the SSI Wreck Diving Specialty, you’ll learn how to carefully prepare for wreck dives, recognise potential hazards and dive safely around wrecks. This course teaches you the essential fundamentals of wreck diving within your certification limits.
SSI Waves, Tides & Currents
Waves, tides and currents can significantly affect diving conditions. In this SSI Specialty, you’ll learn how to better assess these environmental factors, use appropriate entry and exit techniques and adapt your dives to the prevailing conditions.
SAFETY STARTS WITH PREPARATION
Safety & Rescue
Diving safety means recognising potential risks early and responding appropriately in challenging situations. With our SSI courses in search and recovery, first aid and diver rescue, you’ll develop essential skills to better protect yourself and other divers.
SSI Search & Recovery
Finding lost objects underwater and recovering them safely requires careful planning and appropriate techniques. In the SSI Search & Recovery Specialty, you’ll learn different search patterns, how to use search lines and essential procedures for safely recovering objects underwater.
SSI React Right
In an emergency, every minute counts. With SSI React Right, you’ll learn essential first aid skills, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and how to respond to emergency situations. Depending on the training modules you choose, the course may also include the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) and emergency oxygen administration.
SSI Diver Stress & Rescue
Stress is one of the most common factors contributing to critical situations while diving. In the SSI Diver Stress & Rescue course, you’ll learn to recognise signs of stress in yourself and others at an early stage, prevent problems whenever possible and respond appropriately in emergency situations. Practical rescue exercises and a variety of emergency scenarios will help prepare you for real-life emergencies.
EXPAND YOUR KNOWLEDGE & DISCOVER NEW POSSIBILITIES
Knowledge & Specialisation
Diving offers much more than exploring the underwater world. With our advanced SSI programmes, you can deepen your knowledge of marine ecosystems, diving theory and breathing gases, or prepare for more demanding diving techniques. Discover the specialisations that match your interests and previous diving experience.
SSI Marine Ecology
Discover the fascinating connections within the underwater world. In the SSI Marine Ecology Specialty, you’ll learn more about marine habitats, their inhabitants and the interactions within different ecosystems. You’ll develop a better understanding of the environment you dive in and discover how you can help protect it.
SSI Science of Diving
Would you like to gain a deeper understanding of the science behind diving? In the SSI Science of Diving Specialty, you’ll expand your knowledge of diving physics, diving physiology, decompression theory, diving equipment and the underwater environment. This course is ideal for divers who want to explore the theoretical foundations of their sport in greater depth.
SSI Gas Blender Nitrox/Trimix
Preparing breathing gas mixtures requires specialist knowledge, precision and strict adherence to safety procedures. In the SSI Gas Blender course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of preparing and analysing Nitrox mixtures and, depending on the training programme, Trimix mixtures. The course also covers calculations, safe oxygen handling and quality control of the finished breathing gases.
SSI Independent Diving
In the SSI Independent Diving Specialty, you’ll learn how to plan and conduct dives without a dive buddy, using particularly careful planning, appropriate redundant equipment and additional safety procedures. This advanced course is designed for experienced divers who want to develop their personal responsibility and independent diving skills.
SSI Decompression Diving
With the SSI Decompression Diving Specialty, you’ll expand your knowledge of planning and conducting dives with mandatory decompression stops within the limits of this certification. You’ll learn about decompression planning, gas management, suitable equipment and essential safety procedures. This course is designed for appropriately qualified and experienced divers.
SSI Dive Guide
Would you like to take on more responsibility in diving and safely guide certified divers through the underwater world? In the SSI Dive Guide programme, you’ll further develop your skills in dive planning, group leadership and safety management. You’ll learn how to professionally prepare dives, conduct briefings and responsibly lead groups underwater. This training is an important step towards becoming an SSI Divemaster.
YOUR DIVING EXPERIENCE GETS RECOGNISED
SSI Recognition Levels
With every SSI Specialty you complete and every dive you log, you gain valuable experience. SSI recognises your training progress through different recognition levels. The Advanced Specialty Diver and Master Diver ratings reflect the additional qualifications and diving experience you have already gained.
SSI Advanced Specialty Diver
Der SSI Advanced Specialty Diver ist eine Anerkennungsstufe für Taucher, die bereThe SSI Advanced Specialty Diver is a recognition rating for divers who have successfully completed several Specialty programmes and gained additional diving experience. It highlights your training progress beyond your initial diving certification.
Requirements:
- At least 4 completed SSI Specialty programmes
- At least 24 logged dives
Once you can provide proof of the required training and logged dives, you qualify for this SSI recognition rating. No additional standalone training course is required.
SSI Master Diver
Der SSI Master Diver ist eine der höchsten Anerkennungsstufen im The SSI Master Diver is one of the highest recognition ratings in non-professional SSI recreational diving. It represents extensive continuing education, practical diving experience and additional knowledge of diving safety and rescue.
Requirements:
- At least 5 completed SSI Specialty programmes
- SSI Diver Stress & Rescue is mandatory
- At least 50 logged dives
The SSI Master Diver rating recognises your extensive training and accumulated diving experience. Like the Advanced Specialty Diver rating, it is based on completed training programmes and logged dives rather than a separate additional course.
Important to know: The SSI Advanced Open Water Diver is a standalone continuing education course. Advanced Specialty Diver and Master Diver, on the other hand, are recognition ratings based on completed SSI Specialties and documented diving experience.
YOUR NEXT DIVING ADVENTURE AWAITS
Ready to Take the Next Step in Your Diving Journey?
Whether you want to improve your diving skills, explore new underwater environments or expand your knowledge, diving RABAC offers the right SSI continuing education programme for you. We provide personal guidance and help you choose the training that best matches your goals and previous diving experience.