Begin your Professional Journey In Scuba Diving
The Dive Guide program combined with the Science of Diving earns the coveted SSI Divemaster rating.
Advance your diving credentials with Ipswich Scuba's SSI Dive Master certification. Develop your leadership skills, technical knowledge and leadership capabilities required to safely conduct certified divers through varied underwater settings and challenging conditions with professional-grade competency.
Transform yourself into a skilled dive leader with hands-on training that matters. Through conducting site evaluations, delivering compelling dive briefings, and guiding real dives, you'll build the confidence and expertise that sets professional guides apart. Ipswich Scuba's SSI Dive Guide program accelerates your journey to becoming the guide divers trust.
SSI Dive Master Overview
The SSI Dive Master certification equips you with essential leadership and safety skills for guiding divers underwater. Master group management, legal compliance, and stress mitigation through integrated online learning, classroom instruction, and practical water sessions.
Develop proficiency in dive briefings, planning, and execution and complete a workshop on leading deep and night dives, alongside rescue protocols you learned in your Stress and Rescue Diver including unconscious diver recovery and missing diver search procedures. Ideal for experienced divers seeking professional-level expertise and instructor credentials.
What can a SSI Divemaster do?
Once certified a SSI Divemaster can:
- Lead and guide certified divers on dives and trips
- Lead Snorkelling experiences
- Assist SSI Assistant Instructors and Instructors with students on programs
- Work at dive centres, on liveaboards, yachts, or at resorts worldwide
- Assist with dive operations and logistics of dive sites and trips.
What's included in the program:
Included in the program is
- All online materials for the Dive Guide and Science Of Diving Program
- Ttuition and support from the team at Ipswich Scuba
- Most equipment hire including tank and air
- Swimming pool fees
- A cuppa on training days in the classroom.
Not included: entry to inland dive sites and accommodation
Not included: SSI Professional Base Package
Dive Master Pre-Requisites:
- Be 18 years old
- Complete and sign the SSI Professional Agreement
- Upload proof of First Aid, CPR and Oxygen Provider (This can be done with us)
- Pay the Registration Fee; and
- Complete the SSI Science of Diving Digital Exam (if not already completed as a separate specialty.
Fees
The full price of the Dive Master which includes the Dive Guide and the Science of diving Program is £850. If you wish to pay in instalments - no problem. We require a £400 deposit to secure your place and get you started.
What's Next?
Once you are a SSI Divemaster - your professional journey has begun and you can continue up the Professional Level to complete your SSI Assistant Instructor and SSI Open Water Instructor.
