Whether you choose to continue your education, start a new career or add something wonderful to your life, becoming a Dive Professional with The Dive Shack is a very rewarding experience!

SSI Dive Professionals are respected all over the world because of their reputation for training excellent divers! This is why the SSI Dive Center and Resort Network is expanding so rapidly and the demand for SSI Instructors and Dive Control Specialists constantly exceeds the supply. Because of our expanded course content, taking your SSI professional course with The Dive Shack will give you an edge, because you will possess the diving and business knowledge that other candidates won't!

The Dive Shack's teaching system and SSI's training and Dive Centre Standards are the perfect blend of structure and flexibility. We teach you to be a professional educator capable of making adjustments to meet the challenges of the environment as well as the needs of your students. We can teach you what it takes to work succesfully in a retail environment, the ins and outs of the diving industry, everything about diving equipment and what it takes to train the most confident and comfortable divers!

Becoming a dive professional with The Dive Shack is the best choice you can make if you are looking for a career in diving or if you're interested in developing the skills and knowledge of a dive professional, but not necessarily want to become active. Besides the standard programs The Dive Shack also offers a convenient crossover program for instructors affiliated with recognized agencies. Our premise is that since you are already an instructor, you only need to know the SSI System and Philosophy function! Whatever your desires are, discuss them with The Dive Shack's friendly and professional shop and dive team members as we will help you grow and thrive in the diving industry!

Dive Control Specialist

With our Dive Control Specialist program, The Dive Shack chooses to provide our students with the highest SSI professional training before the SSI Instructor levels. Our unique program that stood the test of time, consists of a combination of the Divemaster and Assistant Instructor courses! You will learn how to lead and guide certified divers, how to assist SSI Instructors in the classroom, pool and open water, how to teach skills in the classroom and the pool and how to teach certain SSI programs, such as SSI Scuba Skills Update. By assisting an active SSI Insturctor with open water training, you can collect valuable training experience which is the best possible preparation for an Instructor Training Course (ITC)! Whether you want to gain more diving knowledge, launch a truly rewarding career or just add something wonderful to your life, The Dive Shack's SSI Dive Control Specialist professional course is the way to go!
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Open Water Instructor

With The Dive Shack's professional Open Water Instructor course you'll do the things others only dream of. Whether you want to work in the shop here in South Australia or at some tropical dive resort or liveaboard dive boat, with this course it's all yours for the taking! Have you ever imagined actually looking forward to waking up in the morning and getting ready for work? Setting up the boat for customers that are always smiling, because they are doing the thing they love most! With The Dive Shack's Open Water Instructor course you will learn how to change people's aniticipation into passion, how to interact with various industry stakeholders and how succesful dive retailers operate. You will learn everything there is to know about teaching, from the techniques for classroom and open water teaching to the legal aspects about it! Sign up today for The Dive Shack's professional Open Water Instructor course and start transforming your career, your life and that of others!
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