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SSI
Article Count: 83WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF SSI
SSI SCUBA SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL - YOUR CHOICE FOR DIVE CERTIFICATION
ABOUT SSI
SCUBA SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL GREW OUT OF THE PASSION OF A FEW AVID DIVERS WHO WERE INTENT ON MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR ANYONE TO LEARN HOW TO SCUBA DIVE.
INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
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OUR GLOBAL NETWORK
THE SCUBA SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL NETWORK IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST STRENGTHS AS AN ORGANIZATION.
SSI International: International Headquarters is where the important standardization of SSI diving certification and education happens. This is where SSI Training Standards are written, and where the skills and techniques for SSI programs are created. This is also where we produce educational materials and, with the help of our Service Centers, translate them into many languages.
SSI Service Centers: SSI's Service Centers oversee and service the SSI Dive Centers, Dive Resorts and Dive Professionals of the assigned area.
SSI Dive Centers and Dive Resorts: This is an extensive network of professional businesses that operate as scuba diving or freediving schools for diver and dive professional training, and provide a variety of diving destinations for their customers. Visit one today to start or continue your underwater adventure!
PADI
Article Count: 18Professional Association of Diving Instructors
Description
The Professional Association of Diving Instructors is a recreational diving membership and diver training organization founded in 1966 by John Cronin and Ralph EricksonPADI courses range from entry level to relatively advanced recreational diver certification, several specialized diving skills courses, usually connected with specific equipment or conditions, some diving related informational courses and a range of recreational diving instructor certifications. They also offer various technical diving courses. As of January 2019, PADI is reported to have issued 27 million scuba certifications
Membership[edit]
In 2019, PADI reported it had a membership of over 137,000 professional members and 6,600 dive centers, and had awarded more than 27,000,000 diving certifications internationally. PADI operates in 186 countries and territories.[5] Membership is heavily weighted toward males, but in 2016, the organization experienced a growth of 1.1% in female certifications. Women accounted for 37.2% of all certifications during 2016. The organization hosts Women's Dive Day events across the globe in an effort to increase awareness of women divers.[9]
Training system[edit]
PADI courses are performance-based diver training programs,[clarification needed] and at the introductory level emphasize practical knowledge, safety and motor skills. The basics of diving physics and physiology are introduced during entry level programs. The details of these concepts are left for later courses when they are necessary for the required competences of the specific training. These practices fall within current modern learning philosophies and receive regular updates via peer review.[10][11]
The PADI training system is composed of modules with standardized learning objectives divided into theory and practical skills development. Each module is a stand-alone course for which certification is provided to the participant on successful completion of the course. Theory is mainly conveyed by way of self-study using books or digital training using PADI eLearning.[12] All study options are supplemented with video and, in most cases, live instruction to help the participant visualize what they have read.[13] Confirmation of the student diver's level of mastery in standardized knowledge review sessions is carried out by a scuba instructor. The instructor utilizes both written tests and live observation during actual dives to verify a student's knowledge and skills. Practical skills are obtained through confined water training (pools or relatively shallow water) and performance evaluations in open water.
TDI
Article Count: 14SDI
Article Count: 30BSAC
Article Count: 19RAID
Article Count: 44NAUI
Article Count: 30Meet the Team
Article Count: 2ProTec
Article Count: 58ProTec stands for Professional Technical and Recreational Diving. We are an international training and certification organization that is offering services for newcomers, divers and dive professionals. We work together with dive instructors and dive centres promoting responsible, sustainable diving among all levels of diving business.
ProTec roots lay back in the early eighties, when the founders of ProTec, among some enthusiastic deep and mixed gas divers in Austria and Switzerland, set up their way to dive beyond the sport diving limits with new rules and training to achieve maximum safety for this extreme sport.
These activities started on a club status, while later on an international cooperation with some technical dive organizations followed.
In 1997 the name and logo of ProTec was newly established together with a re-organization, to facilitate a step into international activity. While in the early stage the focus was strictly on technical diving, ProTec was the first tec-organization that extended the program with so-called recreational diving.
Cave Diving Thailand
Article Count: 1CAVE DIVING COURSES ON TWINSET AND SIDEMOUNT
Cave diving
Cave diving is Tech Diving Thaiiland specialty. It is an entirely new world after coming from recreational diving even as a technical diver.
For the single tank open water diver totally different equipment and techniques are required and often the whole way you have been diving has to be adapted.
Exploring the world of caves is an overwhelming feeling; jumping in a lake, finding the cave entrance, going through a narrow part of a cave , probably with stalactites and stalagmites, which then opens up into a huge chamber that will take your breath away.
A cave diving course is challenging and that’s the way it should be as it is intrinsically more dangerous – it is not possible to just ascend if something goes wrong. We have had grown man with over 200 dives cry at day 3 of the course as it takes everyone out of their comfort-zone. It doesn’t matter if you are an Advanced Open Water diver or a Dive instructor or even a technical diver. Diving in an overhead environment is a total different ball-game but so so worth it.
For example:
If a difficulty occurs with regards to visibility, the equipment or any other problem, this has to be solved where you are in the cave and it might take hours to get back to the entrance. Certain factors of stress peak around the corner which you do not have with open water diving.
Cave Diving Stress
As with all types of scuba diving, it is very important to stay calm in potentially stressful situations. This is particularly true as there is usually no chance to bring a panicking diver to the surface immediately.
In order to know instinctively how to react in such situations and to solve any occurring adversity while being in a cave, so-called “drills” are performed. These include scenarios like running out of air, problems with the equipment (e.g. leak), losing a buddy, the line or visibility as well as various combinations of the above.
So for training reasons you might end up having no air with zero visibility, swimming back to the entrance of the cave. While doing that your buddy might even get entangled in a line and you have to free him.