Dive Guide

Join the SSI Dive Guide Course at Oceanwide Outfitters and take your passion for diving to the next level. Our comprehensive Dive Guide training program is designed to develop your leadership skills, enhance your diving knowledge, and prepare you to safely guide certified divers in various underwater environments.

Upon successful completion of the course, you'll earn the official SSI Dive Guide certification. This credential allows you to work professionally, leading certified divers on guided underwater tours around the world. It is also the foundational prerequisite for further professional-level pathways, such as the SSI Divemaster or Instructor programs.

What You’ll Learn

• Comprehensive Academics: Master specialized dive planning, subsurface group navigation, problem management, and marine environmental stewardship.
• Leadership Development: Build professional confidence in managing diving groups, leading briefs, mapping dive sites, and preventing underwater emergencies.
• Practical Application: Refine your personal rescue and diving techniques through targeted pool workshops and real-world evaluation dives.

Who Should Enroll?

• Certified divers looking to take their very first step toward a professional, global diving career.
• Enthusiastic divers eager to share their passion and safely escort others into the marine environment.
• Divers who regularly dive with family members or friends and want to learn advanced techniques to assist and supervise them.
• Recreational divers interested in improving their self-sufficiency, group management, and rescue readiness.

Important Enrollment Notes:
• Medical Clearing: In order to participate, you will need a current RSTC medical history form (which may require a physician's sign-off). This form is accessible within your online Scuba Schools International profile or directly at our facility. Please review the medical questionnaire prior to course registration.
• Refund Policy: Course fees are non-refundable once digital learning materials and registrations have been officially issued.
• Career Placement: While professional certification opens up worldwide opportunities, employment at Oceanwide Outfitters is not guaranteed.

Start Your Professional Diving Career with SSI

SSI started in 1970 with a vision of making it possible for anyone to learn to dive. With more than 3,500 Training Centers in over 150 countries and 100,000+ Professionals, it is easy to make a career with SSI wherever you choose. SSI is the name to trust in the diving industry as an RSTC founding member and globally ISO certified.

A progressive approach to personalized training and a close cooperation of all SSI affiliated Professionals and Training Centers ensures you will have access to global career opportunities and get the best training possible. We look forward to welcoming you to our professional community!

How the Training Works

• Digital Learning & Academics: Study the professional leadership modules anytime, anywhere at your own convenience via the MySSI digital platform. Oceanwide Outfitters will schedule your structured classroom reviews and dive planning workshops.
• In-Water Training: During your pool/confined water sessions and supervised open water dives across Arizona's top training locations, an experienced SSI Instructor will mentor you in group control and rescue scenarios until you are fully comfortable.
• Certification: Once you have completed all required academic reviews, pool skills, final exams, and evaluation dives, your digital SSI Dive Guide Specialty card will go live instantly on your MySSI App.

Facts and Training Standards

• Minimum Age: 18 years old
• Amount of Academic Sessions: 5
• Amount of Pool/Confined Water Sessions: 4
• Amount of Open Water Sessions: 5
• Maximum Training Depth: 40 meters / 130 feet
• Suggested Duration: 35 to 45 hours
• Certification Prerequisites: Minimum of 40 logged open water dives (totaling 25 hours or more of dive time) prior to beginning the course.