SSI Scuba Diving Courses in Panglao - 2024

This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably dive beyond 18 meters. Many exciting dive sites are located in deeper water. Without proper training, this kind of diving puts you at risk. The SSI Deep Diving Specialty will give you the ability to safely and comfortably plan and conduct dives beyond 18 meters and is a prerequisite for some advanced training.You will earn the SSI Deep Diving Specialty certification after completing this program.

Having the training and recognition to dive to a maximum depth of 40 metres allows you to fully explore the wonderful reefs and walls we have here in Panglao, we also have a beautiful wreck just a few minutes speedboat ride that lies at 35 meters.

This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely scuba dive around wrecks and artificial reefs.

Many of the ocean’s best dive sites have artificial reefs, or wrecks that have sunk through the ages. This program gives you the skills and knowledge required to safely scuba dive above and around these underwater treasures. You will earn the SSI Wreck Diving certification after completing this program. This program can be completed in one day.

This course makes a perfect partner with the Deep Diving specialty as our House Reef Wreck is 35 metres deep off the wall. A small but aesthetic wreck, it sank in a big storm and lies in a sandy area and attracts a large variety of marine life.

This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably navigate underwater during a dive. You will learn how to use a compass and natural navigation techniques, estimate distance, basic navigation patterns and how to leave and return to a designated point. You will earn the SSI Navigation Specialty certification after completing this program.

Our wide variety of dive sites here in Panglao offer very interesting backdrops to this specialty program and the course only takes one day.

This program teaches the skills and concepts required to identify stress, prevent accidents, and properly deal with emergency situations encountered by divers.

Stress is a major cause of diving accidents and negatively impacts rescue situations. This program teaches you the skills and knowledge required to recognize and deal with stress, prevent accidents and properly deal with emergency situations encountered by divers. You will earn the SSI Diver Stress and Rescue Specialty certification after completing this program.

For many, this specialty proves to be the most exciting and rewarding and is a pre-requisite to the SSI Dive Guide Specialty program. You can complete this program in 2-3 days. Students must have proof of current training within two years of First Aid and CPR, this makes React Right the perfect partner specialty.

This program teaches the skills and concepts required to provide emergency first responder assistance in emergency situations, and fulfills the first aid/CPR requirements for SSI training programs.

React Right is SSI’s emergency training program, consisting of the following basic components: Primary Assessment, First Aid & CPR Skills, Primary Stabilization Techniques, and includes two optional components: Oxygen Administration in Diving Emergencies and Automated External Defibrilation Basics. Students who complete this program earn the SSI React Right specialty certification. React Right doesn’t just prepare you for diving emergencies, having the First Aid skills could be useful in many day to day situations.

This program provides a general understanding of the complex and exciting science of marine ecology, which is the study of how organisms interact with each other and the environment, the flow of energy through communities, and the link between ocean ecosystems. You will earn the SSI Marine Ecology Specialty certification after completing this program.

This program teaches you the skills needed to dive with an underwater camera, and provides the in-depth knowledge and experience required to properly use, maintain and store your equipment. Our goal is help you capture your amazing underwater experiences. You will earn the SSI Photo & Video Specialty certification.

The rich marine ecology here in Panglao makes this program especially interesting, our clear waters and equatorial sunshine provides perfect conditions for photography and videography. This program partners particularly well with Perfect Buoyancy, having the ability to get close to your subject without damaging the surrounding ecosystem.

The ocean is filled with fascinating and beautiful fish of every shape and size. This non-diving specialty program teaches you the skills and concepts required to identify the common families of Caribbean, Indo-Pacific, and Red Sea reef fish. You will earn the SSI Fish Identification Specialty certification after completing this program.

This part of the Philippines has huge variety of interesting fish and macro life, having this specialty would help you enjoy the underwater world even more and only takes half a day.

This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably dive at night or in limited visibility conditions. Some of the ocean’s most amazing creatures only come out at night, so your dive doesn’t have to end when the sun goes down. You will learn how to enter and exit the water, use specialized equipment, and how to communicate and dive with a buddy at night or in limited visibility. You will earn the SSI Night Diving and Limited Visibility Specialty certification after completing this program.

We have a wonderful wall here that comes alive at night with colourful corals and crustaceans and many critters amongst the corals on top of the wall.

This program teaches you the skills and concepts required to improve your diving position, increase your buoyancy control, and minimize your breathing gas consumption rate.

Do you want to increase your buoyancy control, minimize your breathing gas consumption, or move effortlessly above the ocean floor? The SSI Perfect Buoyancy program teaches you the skills and techniques needed to maximize your dive experience, increase your comfort in the water, and get the most from your equipment. You will earn the SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty certification.

Learn new finning techniques and how to control your trim in the water, making all your future diving more enjoyable. Having good trim and control helps with all types of diving including photography, wreck and night.

This program gives you the skills and experience required to safely lead groups of certified divers and is the first step towards an exciting career as an SSI Dive Professional without requiring you to complete an instructor program. Professional Dive Guides can work for SSI Dive Centers, guiding dives in a variety of environments and conditions. You will earn the SSI Dive Guide certification after completing this program.

This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely plan and conduct search and recovery dives. You will learn about search patterns, specialized dive plans, underwater communication, and how to recover small to medium-sized objects using specialized equipment like lift bags. You will earn the SSI Search and Recovery Specialty certification after completing this program.

This program provides an in-depth and detailed study of physics, physiology, decompression theory, the aquatic environment and diving equipment. It is required training for most SSI Dive Professional programs, as well as some Extended Range programs. You will earn the SSI Science of Diving Specialty certification after completing this program.