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Explore Diani Diving →SSI Specialty Courses • Diani Beach
More skills. More adventure.
Go deeper, stay longer, master your buoyancy, explore wrecks, navigate with confidence or capture the underwater world. Build the diver you want to become—one specialty at a time.
Choose your focus
Train in the skills that excite you
SSI digital learning
Start the theory before arriving
Real ocean training
Develop skills at Diani dive sites
Build recognition
Progress towards Master Diver
Build the diver you want to be
Beyond the basics
Your certification was only the beginning.
Specialty training lets you focus on individual areas of diving instead of repeating a broad entry-level course. Choose the skills, equipment and environments that match the adventures you want.
Ocean Tribe combines SSI digital learning with practical training in Diani. Courses can be completed individually or combined into a package that accelerates your continuing-education journey.
Develop greater confidence and control underwater
Explore new environments and types of diving
Learn with SSI professionals in real ocean conditions
Work toward Specialty Diver and Master Diver recognition
Adventure specialties
Open the door to new underwater worlds
Explore wrecks, master different conditions and develop the training needed to take on bigger diving adventures.
Go deeper
SSI Deep Diving
Learn to plan and conduct deeper dives safely, manage gas consumption and understand the additional considerations involved when exploring beyond 18 metres.
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Adventure
Wreck Diving
Discover underwater history while learning safe wreck procedures, responsible exploration and how to identify potential hazards.
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Advanced
Advanced Wreck Diving
Progress from external wreck exploration to properly planned limited-penetration dives using specialised procedures and equipment.
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Conditions
Waves, Tides & Currents
Understand water movement, plan for changing conditions and learn techniques for safer entries, exits and current diving.
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Equipment
Recreational Sidemount
Discover a streamlined and flexible equipment configuration while developing strong trim, balance and gas-management skills.
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After dark
Night & Limited Visibility
Learn light handling, communication and navigation techniques while discovering how dramatically the reef changes after dark.
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Challenge
Search & Recovery
Practise underwater search patterns, object location, knot-tying and the safe use of lifting equipment.
View Search & RecoveryCore diving skills
Dive smoother, smarter and with more confidence
Refine the skills that influence almost every dive—from buoyancy and navigation to dive planning and environmental awareness.
Control
Perfect Buoyancy
Improve trim, weighting and breathing control to move effortlessly, protect the reef and make your gas last longer.
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Confidence
Navigation
Build confidence using a compass, natural references and distance-estimation techniques to find your way underwater.
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Planning
Computer Diving
Understand the information your computer provides and learn how to use it for safer, more informed dive planning.
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Knowledge
Science of Diving
Go deeper into physics, physiology, decompression theory, equipment and the aquatic environment.
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Creative
Photo & Video
Improve stability, composition and responsible wildlife interaction while learning to capture stronger underwater images.
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Marine life
Fish Identification
Learn to recognise fish families by shape, behaviour and markings so every reef dive becomes more rewarding.
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Understand your gear. Expand your options.
Get more from your equipment and learn specialised configurations designed for specific environments and diving objectives.
Popular
Enriched Air Nitrox
Learn how oxygen-enriched breathing gas affects dive planning and how it may provide longer no-decompression limits.
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Know your kit
Equipment Techniques
Understand how your equipment works, how to care for it and how to recognise common problems before they interrupt a dive.
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Experienced divers
Independent Diving
Develop self-reliance, redundant-equipment procedures and advanced planning for dives without relying on a buddy.
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Specialist kit
Full Face Mask Diving
Learn the correct fitting, use and emergency procedures for full-face masks and underwater communication systems.
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Travel skill
Boat Diving
Learn boat procedures, safe entries and exits, equipment preparation and the etiquette used on dive boats worldwide.
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Safety, awareness and inclusion
Become the diver others want beside them
Strong divers do more than manage their own equipment. They recognise developing problems, respond effectively and help make diving more accessible.
Essential safety
Diver Stress & Rescue
Learn to recognise stress, prevent developing incidents and respond effectively to realistic surface and underwater emergencies.
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Emergency care
React Right
Build practical CPR, first-aid, AED and emergency-oxygen skills for diving incidents and everyday emergencies.
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Inclusive diving
Classified Dive Buddy
Learn how to support divers with disabilities using adaptable techniques, thoughtful communication and appropriate safety procedures.
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Important: Entry requirements vary between specialties.
Some advanced programs require minimum ages, logged dives or previous
certifications. Ocean Tribe will confirm the correct prerequisites before
your course.
Your SSI progression
Turn individual specialties into major milestones
SSI recognition levels reward both training and real diving experience. Your specialties build skills while your logged dives build confidence.
Milestone 01
Specialty Diver
Your first major continuing-education recognition level.
2 specialties + 12 logged dives
Milestone 02
Advanced Recognition
Demonstrate broader training across several specialty areas.
4 specialties + 24 logged dives
Milestone 03
Master Diver
SSI’s highest recreational recognition rating.
4 specialties + Rescue + 50 dives
Go professional
Dive Guide
Ready for more? Begin developing leadership and professional dive-guiding skills.
Explore professional training
Bundle your training
Four specialties. One seriously good dive trip.
Combine multiple SSI specialties into an Advanced Specialty Diver package. Build a broader skill set, complete more dives and work toward your next recognition level during one Diani holiday.
Which diver do you want to become next?
Tell Ocean Tribe what interests you, how many dives you have and how long you will be in Diani. We’ll help you choose the right specialty or build a personalised course combination.
