If you are reading this post, it is safe to assume that you are already a dive enthusiast, whether that is as a scuba diver, a freediver or both. So why not turn your hobby and passion into your career?
Being an SSI dive professional is an incredibly rewarding job. You get to enjoy your days in the water while doing what you love, sharing your passions through teaching people how to dive and helping them discover the magical world beneath the waves. Besides teaching diving, you will also instill in people a new compassion for the marine world.
SSI offers a range of career options from freediving, to scuba diving, to extended range diving, swimming and more. Being an international agency with thousands of centers around the world and new ones opening every year, there are always hundreds of available job opportunities in exciting locations around the globe. You can check out the current job offerings here.
SSΙ Quality and professionalism.
SSI is an agency developed by divers for divers. This means that both the teaching and professional support systems are very well streamlined. Besides the website, the mySSI app is available for both IOS and Android use, and has a very user friendly design packed with tons of useful information including your course materials, a logbook, an SSI blog, your certifications as well as a map to search for dive centers, sites and job opportunities.
SSI’s advanced online teaching system, with the opportunity to download for offline use also means there is no more need to carry around heavy teaching and learning materials for neither the instructors or students. Another huge perk of the teaching materials being online is that there is 24/7 access and any updates and improvements can happen automatically with no disruption.
As an SSI professional you gain FREE access to all instructor materials, including student digital materials, instructor materials, digital exams, power points, marketing materials and more. All of this is free for you to access in all available languages meaning you are ready to teach in a different language with the click of a button.
SSI also creates flexible teaching opportunities allowing you as a professional to decide the order of the skills learned to ensure you let your students develop at their pace to become confident and well prepared divers.
SSI’s training programs are also ISO certified meaning they comply with the highest international standards for teaching and safety and are recognized in diving centers worldwide.
You might also be questioning if you can actually earn an income as a dive professional?
The answer is yes, absolutely you can!
Of course the pay varies around the world and between centers, but the more courses you are able to provide as a professional the better your earning opportunities! So it is a good idea to keep developing your teaching skills through gaining various specialty instructor qualifications.
SSI also supports their professionals by offering yearly opportunities for development through free personal or professional level courses to upgrade your qualifications and increase earning opportunities.
In the SSI system, all professionals need to be affiliated to a dive center which gives you as a professional access to other professionals, teaching spaces and high quality equipment. This is advantageous to both, saving money to you as an instructor through offering you a space, materials and professional advice and for your students through having a professional learning environment and equipment, and gaining a trustworthy local dive center and community. You can still work as a freelancer by being affiliated to many centers at the same time, but in order to maintain high standards of teaching, it is only through a center that you can certify your students.
Through the online system and center affiliation you also gain access to a well connected global network allowing to stay in touch with your customers and keep them engaged in diving and your local social events.
Another way in which SSI supports and rewards its professionals is through the PRO rewards. This is essentially the industry’s first cash-back system that rewards you for your performance and loyalty to teaching SSI programs. As an SSI Pro, you earn reward points for each certification you issue or a professional certification you earn. For the first year, new professionals earn 5x the normal rewards rate for each certification to motivate you even more to continue on your career path.
But what can you actually do with these reward points?
You can use these points to pay for your next year’s Pro Renewal fees! This means that if you teach enough courses, you might not need to pay anything for the renewal at all! You can also choose to use these points to purchase certification courses for yourself!
If you realize now that this is exactly the change you want to make in your life and unlock a lifestyle for yourself. Come and become an SSI PRO with us at Amorgos Diving Center and welcome your new life, full of rewarding and incredible moments spent in good company both above and underwater.
Our next professional development courses for both scuba and freediving are taking place in April 2024.
Get in touch with us to book your place or if you have any questions!
email: info@amorgos-diving.com
