Take your first breath underwater.
Curious about scuba diving? Start in a safe swimming pool with an SSI professional and discover how amazing weightlessness feels.
Wondering what breathing underwater feels like?
SSI Try Scuba is a beginner-friendly pool experience for anyone who wants to try diving without committing to a full certification course.
You will learn how the equipment works, practise breathing through a regulator and discover how to move comfortably underwater. A qualified SSI professional remains with you throughout the experience.
The controlled pool environment allows you to relax, ask questions and enjoy your first underwater experience at your own pace.
Perfect for curious first-time divers
Try Scuba is designed to make the first step easy, relaxed and exciting.
You are curious about diving
Discover whether you enjoy breathing and moving underwater before committing to an ocean experience or certification course.
You want a relaxed start
Begin in a calm swimming pool without waves, currents, boats or the other distractions found in the ocean.
You want a family adventure
Children from age eight and adults can share the excitement of discovering scuba under professional supervision.
Your first underwater superpowers
There is no pressure to perform. The experience is about becoming comfortable, having fun and discovering something completely new.
Breathe underwater
Experience the unforgettable feeling of taking calm, natural breaths beneath the surface.
Use real scuba gear
Learn what the main pieces of equipment do and how they help you breathe and move underwater.
Feel weightless
Discover how small changes in breathing and body position affect the way you float and move.
Have underwater fun
Once you are comfortable, enjoy time swimming and exploring the pool with your instructor.
Three simple steps into a new world
From a short introduction at home to your first underwater breaths, everything is explained clearly and completed at a relaxed pace.
Quick Digital Learning
Complete a short MySSI introduction covering the basic ideas behind scuba equipment, underwater breathing and safety.
Meet, Brief & Gear Up
Meet your SSI professional, talk through the session and learn how your mask, fins, regulator, buoyancy jacket and cylinder work.
Your Pool Dive
Enter the pool, practise breathing in shallow water and progress at your own pace to simple skills and underwater swimming.
What your experience includes
Designed to make your first dive feel easy
No swimming test
This pool-only introductory experience does not require the swimming and floating tests used in certification courses.
Children welcome
Children aged eight and above can participate with the required parental or guardian consent.
Your comfort comes first
You begin in shallow water and only progress when you feel comfortable and ready.
Health questionnaire
Participants complete the required medical questionnaire. Medical clearance may be needed depending on the answers.
Where can Try Scuba lead?
Try Scuba is an experience rather than a certification, but it can be the beginning of an incredible diving journey.
Book your first underwater breath
Select an available Try Scuba date below and complete your booking online.
Try Scuba FAQs
What is SSI Try Scuba?
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Your first underwater adventure starts in the pool
No experience, no ocean and no pressure—just expert guidance, real scuba equipment and the magic of breathing underwater.
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