Advanced Diving Courses
You are already certified and would like to learn some new skills. Do you have something particular in mind? Continue your adventures and get the skills and experience you need to dive into the world’s best dive sites by joining our Advanced Diving Courses!
When you complete a certain number of logged dives and Specialty programs, with SSI you will earn and automatically receive the recognition cards: Specialty Diver, Advanced Open Water Diver, and Master Diver – one of the most elite ratings in diving today.
Are you interested in becoming a Rescue Diver? This speciality program teaches you the skills you need to protect yourself and other divers.
Specialty Diver
(€250)
- price varies on Specialties
- Recognition for 2 Specialties & 12 dives
Course Details:
Minimum Age: 10
SSI Specialty Diver is your first step toward becoming an SSI Master Diver, and can begin as soon as you complete your Open Water Diver training. This program includes 2 SSI Specialty programs from the once listed below.
Advanced Open Water
(€450)
- price varies on Specialties
- Recognition for 4 Specialties & 24 dives
Course Details:
Minimum Age: 10
SSI Advanced Open Water Diver is the next rating on the path to becoming an SSI Master Diver. This program includes 4 SSI Specialty programs from the once listed below.
Master Diver
(€540)
- price varies on Specialties
- Recognition for 4 Specialties, Rescue & 50 dives
Course Details:
Minimum Age: 15
The Master diver course is composed of 4 SSI Specialty program Kits and the Rescue Diver course. This rating displays your competency and builds a solid base for more adventures to come.
Diving Accident & Dive-Travel Insurance
The most comprehensive diving accident and dive-travel plans available worldwide. Entry Level students in both Scuba and Freediving are enrolled FREE OF CHARGE under the DiveAssure StartDive plan.
Our advanced diving courses are a menu of Specialities to prepare you for your next diving adventure! Whatever your passion is, we have an SSI Specialty for your needs, because you can choose from over 19 individual programs. Specialty Courses are a great way to improve your current skills and learn new ones. The most popular Advanced diver courses in Malta are definitely wreck diving, as we do have in the meantime 4 wreck dive sites in Gozo. As all of them lie at greater depths, you will need to hold a deep diver certification, or join our course!
Advanced Adventurer
(€280)
- Try an adventure dive from a variety of SSI Specialty programs
- Possible extra charges apply, depending on the chosen area
Course Details:
Minimum Age: 10
In the advanced diving course, you will be able to experience five different open-water dives from five SSI Specialty programs.
Deep Diving
(€199)
- To the Limits of recreational diving
Course Details:
This deep diver program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably dive beyond 18 and up to 40 meters!
Wreck Diving
(€150)
- Explore sunken history
Course Details:
Minimum Age: 10
In wreck diving, you learn everything to safely scuba dive around wrecks and artificial reefs.
Dry Suit Diving
(€180)
- Dry Suit rental included!
Course Details:
Minimum Age: 10
Learn how to dive with a dry suit and never fear cold water again.
Enriched Air Nitrox
(€150)
- Extend your bottom time
Course Details:
Minimum Age: 10
The Nitrox course teaches the use of oxygen enriched air mixtures
of 32% or 40% oxygen to extend your dive.
Recreational Sidemount Diving
(€390)
- Improve your diver trim and streamlining
Course Details:
On this course you will learn how effortless it can be to have a better trim and balance with new gear.
Decompression Diving
(€390)
- Dive beyond the Limits
Course Details:
Minimum Age: 10
Deep & Nitrox40
Learn how to extend your dive beyond the traditional no-decompression limits and understand and use more of your dive computer’s features!
Advanced Wreck Diving
(€300)
- Get the full wreck experience
Course Details:
Dives: 4
The SSI Advanced Wreck Diver certification provides all you need to plan and conduct wreck penetration dives by using specialized wreck diving equipment and buddy team skills. Explore wrecks within the light zone to depths shallower than 30 meters.
Independent Diving
(€290)
- Get your Solo-Diver cert
Course Details:
totaling 50 h or more, Deep, Navi, Night & Rescue
The SSI Independent Diving program provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to safely and comfortably dive without a designated dive buddy using redundant gas supplies.
Cavern Diving
(€250)
- Explore further
Course Details:
This program provides divers with the training necessary to independently plan and conduct limited penetration, no-decompression dives in natural environments, to a max. depth of 30 meters or linear distance of 40 meters, and using specialized overhead environment equipment and procedures, with an equally- or more-qualified buddy.
Perfect Buoyancy
(€140)
- Take control of your enjoyment
Course Details:
As a good diver you know how to master your buoyancy. This course will challenge you to improve your diving position, increase your buoyancy control, and minimize your breathing rate.
Night & Limited Visibility
(€165)
- Discover a hidden world
Course Details:
Minimum Age: 10
You will discover the Sea by night, explore the aquatic environment using a torch.
Excitement guaranteed!
Search & Recovery
(€160)
- Uncover hidden treasures
Course Details:
This course provides the skills and concepts required to safely plan and conduct search and recovery dives.
Navigation
(€140)
- Find your way wherever you are
Course Details:
An important step to become a more autonomous diver is to learn to orientate yourself underwater and thus never to get lost again (not guaranteed…).
Photo & Video
(€180)
- Take your memories with you
Course Details:
Minimum Age: 10
In this underwater photography course you will get familiarized you with using an underwater camera to bring back memories from your dives.
Waves, Tides & Currents
(€140)
- Dive beyond the surf and surge
Course Details:
You will learn how to understand the ocean a bit better to be able to judge when and where to dive at some of the world’s best sites, which are only accessible by boat.
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