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SSI Open Water Diver · Diani, Kenya
Complete your certification in three days with four training dives, or stay for four days and enjoy two additional fun dives after the course. Both options are the same price.
Your first full certification
Start the theory at home in the MySSI app, learn essential skills in the pool and put everything into practice on Diani’s coral reefs. Finish with an internationally recognised certification that qualifies you to dive with a buddy to 18 metres.
See what it feels like to learn, explore and become a confident Open Water Diver.
Your diving adventure
Complete the three-day certification or stay for a fourth day and enjoy two free fun dives.
Review your digital learning, fit your equipment and practise essential scuba skills in a controlled pool environment.
Complete dives one and two on Diani’s reefs, practising your skills to a maximum training depth of 12 metres.
Complete dives three and four, progress to a maximum of 18 metres and become an SSI Open Water Diver.
Enjoy two additional dives as a newly certified diver. These dives are included free, giving you six dives for the same price.
All the essentials
Study at your own pace before arriving in Diani.
Scuba equipment, air fills, weights and required training equipment.
Build confidence with an SSI Instructor in controlled water.
Complete four progressive certification dives on Diani’s reefs.
Choose the fourth-day option and enjoy two extra dives at no additional cost.
Diani and Galu transfers, drinking water, fruit and boat snacks.
Choose your adventure
Choose the standard course or combine Open Water with useful next-step training.
Choose three days with four training dives or four days with two additional fun dives included free. Both options are the same price.
Develop better weighting, trim, buoyancy control and comfort from the beginning.
Continue directly into advanced training with additional skills and ten dives.
Ready to begin?
Junior depth and supervision limits apply according to age and SSI standards.
Complete a 200-metre swim and a 10-minute float or tread without swim aids.
Complete the diver medical questionnaire. Physician clearance may be required.
Complete your assigned MySSI learning and paperwork before the course.
Questions before you dive
You can complete four certification dives over three days. Alternatively, stay for a fourth day and enjoy two additional fun dives after certification. Both options cost $499.
Yes. The fourth-day option includes two fun dives after certification at no extra cost, giving you six dives in total.
Yes. SSI Open Water Diver is an internationally recognised certification.
Adult Open Water Divers are trained to a maximum depth of 18 metres. Shallower age-related limits apply to junior divers.
Yes. Complete most of your digital learning through the MySSI app before arriving in Diani.
Bring swimwear, a towel, reef-safe sunscreen, a hat and a phone or tablet for the MySSI app.
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