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Equipment Techniques

Know your equipment inside and out. You’ll discover how regulators, BCDs, and cylinders work, and learn to recognize wear and potential issues. Adjusting, maintaining, and storing your gear will also be covered.

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What can you expect?

Equipment Techniques is a specialty program designed for divers who want to deepen their knowledge of diving equipment. In this program, you’ll learn how diving equipment functions, how to use it correctly, and how to properly maintain it. However, biennial maintenance must still be performed by a service technician authorized by the manufacturer.

Good knowledge of your equipment not only increases comfort but also safety during diving. Equipment Techniques focuses on understanding, correct use, and recognizing potential problems before and during the dive.

This program is primarily knowledge-based and can be completed without water training.

  • 23-26°C

    heated water

  • 10m

    maximum depth

  • 5.000

    tropical fish

  • SSI

    certified dive center

Practical info

Participation requirements

  • Minimum Open Water Diver or equivalent
  • No additional specialty required
  • Minimum age: 11 years

Duration

3 hours

Price

€199

Included in the price:

  • Digital learning materials
  • Theory training
  • Guidance by an SSI Professional Specialty Instructor
  • Certification registration

What's included & what to bring

We provide the basics – you bring your personal gear or rent it on-site.

Included

  • Buoyancy Compensator / BCD
  • Dive tank
  • Weights

Rent or bring your own

  • Wetsuit
  • Regulator set
  • Computer
  • Mask
  • Snorkel
Rental prices

How your dive proceeds

Check-in

Check in at the counter 15 minutes beforehand. You’ll receive a colored wristband – always wear it visibly, it grants access to the Experience Zone. Your 2-hour dive session starts now.

Change clothes

  • Put on your swimwear
  • Store your belongings in a locker (opened with your wristband)
  • Go barefoot to the fourth floor (stairs or elevator)
  • Bring your own dive gear with you

Disinfect gear & shower

  • Go through the foot bath and take a shower
  • Pick up rented gear
  • Disinfect it in the sink and rinse.
  • Shower again before entering the water

After your dive

  • Disinfect your gear
  • Return the gear
  • Change clothes
  • Deposit your wristband in the box – within 2 hours.

Certification and follow-up opportunities

After completing the program:

  • The participant receives the Equipment Techniques Specialty certification
  • The diver possesses extensive knowledge of diving equipment
  • The diver can better assess and maintain equipment

After Equipment Techniques, you can continue with:

  • Other SSI Specialty programs
  • Advanced courses within the SSI system

Also check out our specialty bundles. These next steps build upon technical knowledge and diving skills.

Indoor specialties

Verfijn je duiktechniek, ontdek nieuwe uitrusting of leer onderwaterbeelden maken.

vanaf € 229

Outdoor specialties

Breid je duikvaardigheden uit en ontdek nieuwe mogelijkheden in buitenwater.

vanaf € 249

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This course is scheduled only upon request after a minimum of 4 people have registered.