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Open Water Instructor

Take the next step in your professional diving career. You will develop your skills in teaching, guiding, and training divers according to SSI standards. After successfully completing the Instructor Evaluation, you will be authorized to independently conduct dive training as an active SSI Open Water Instructor.

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What can you expect?

The Instructor Evaluation (IE) is the final step within SSI’s 2-step Instructor Training Approach. This program serves as the official evaluation for candidates who wish to complete their path to becoming an SSI Open Water Instructor.

Prior to the SSI Assistant Instructor and Instructor Evaluation, you must first successfully complete the Instructor Training Course (ITC). During the ITC, you will learn how to:

  • Deliver theoretical presentations
  • Supervise confined water training sessions
  • Teach the Open Water Diver program and various Specialty programs, such as Enriched Air Nitrox, Diver Stress & Rescue, Science of Diving, and Divemaster.
  • Develop student management and communication skills

The Instructor Evaluation by the SSI Service Center assesses whether you can apply these skills correctly and according to SSI standards.

  • 23-26°C

    heated water

  • 10m

    maximum depth

  • 5.000

    tropical fish

  • SSI

    certified dive center

Practical info

Participation requirements

  • Successful completion of the Instructor Training Course (ITC)
  • Active professional status
  • Fulfillment of applicable SSI requirements
  • Minimum age: 18 years

Already an experienced instructor with another organization?
You may be eligible for a shortened onboarding process where you only need to complete certain parts of the ITC, followed by successfully completing the IE.

Already an Assistant Instructor with another organization?
You can continue your professional journey within SSI through a customized transition program.

Contact an SSI Training Center for more information about the possibilities.

Duration

70 hours

Price

€899
  • Cost of the Instructor Evaluation by the SSI Service Center not included.
  • Administrative processing
  • Registration as an SSI Instructor after successful completion

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

Upon successful completion of the Instructor Evaluation:

  • The candidate receives SSI Instructor certification
  • Professional status is officially registered
  • The instructor is authorized to independently conduct SSI dive training

After becoming an SSI Instructor, you can continue with:

  • Specialty Instructor
  • Assistant Instructor Trainer
  • Instructor Training Seminar
  • SSI Instructor Trainer
  • Other professional training within the SSI system

These next steps build upon didactics, professional responsibility, and career development within scuba diving

Authority with active status

Instructors with active status may teach, supervise, and issue certifications for the following programs after completing the Instructor Evaluation:

  • Try Scuba
  • basic-diver
  • Referral Diver
  • Indoor Diver
  • Scuba Diver
  • Open Water Diver
  • Experienced Diver Test
  • Scuba Skills Update
  • Advanced Open Water Diver

They will receive the following Specialty Instructor certifications:

  • Diver Stress & Rescue
  • Enriched Air Nitrox
  • Science of Diving
  • Dive Guide/Divemaster