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SSI Specialty Courses:
- Boat Diving
- Computer Diving
- Deep Diving
- Diver Stress and Rescue
- Dry Suit Diving
- Enriched Air Nitrox
- Equipment Techniques
- Navigation
- Night and Limited-Visibility Diving
- Search and Recovery
- Underwater Photography
- Waves, Tides and Currents
- Wreck Diving
- Unique Specialties (written by SSI Instructors)
UNIQUE SPECIALTIES
Description
Unique Specialties are courses developed by Advanced Instructors
or higher, not by SSI. They meet training requirements for Specialty
Diver, Advanced Open Water Diver and Master Diver certifications.
An individual Unique Specialties certification card is also issued.
Intent
The intent of the Unique Specialties program is to provide a method
for SSI Dealers to broaden the specialties they can offer. Numerous
parts of the country have unique types of diving requiring specialized
training. Many Dealers have unique areas of expertise they teach
to divers. The program also offers a way for Dealers in resort areas
to make every dive they conduct a specialty dive. This makes each
dive a training opportunity, which increases sales of specialties.
Procedures
To register a Unique Specialty course, an Advanced Open Water or
higher level Instructor simply provides an original course outline
to SSI, or co-teaches the course with an already approved Instructor.
To teach the course and issue certifications for it, Instructors
must have the specialty registered at SSI.
Creating a new Unique Specialty
- The Instructor creating the outline must be rated as an SSI
Advanced Open Water Instructor or above.
- Develop a course outline meeting the following requirements:
- Meet all SSI Training Standards for Specialty Diving Courses.
- Meet the intent of other SSI Specialty Courses, which is
to introduce and familiarize students with diving activities
and provide limited experience.
- Include at least two open water training dives and one lecture.
It may have optional pool sessions.
- Limit required equipment to recreational scuba diving equipment.
- Lecture sessions should have provisions for objectives,
materials, outline and summary.
- Water sessions should have provisions for objectives, materials,
orientation, exercises and evaluation.
- Develop a resume of practical experience in the specialty area.
List previous experience and certifications you have in each specialty
area. Also include any additonal formal training you may have
in each specialty, how many dives you have in each area and why
you feel qualified to teach this specialty.
- Submit the outline and resume to the Instructor Services department.
- If the outline is approved, the outline will be retained in
the Dealer affiliate's file, and the Instructor is approved to
teach the course, issue Unique Specialty certifications, and co-teach
the specialty to another Advanced Open Water Instructor.
- If the outline is not approved, it will be returned with an
explanation of what to change. It can be resubmitted.
Learning a Unique Specialty from a Qualified Instructor
- Be rated as an SSI Open Water Instructor or higher.
- Co-teach the specialty with an Advanced Open Water Instructor,
or above, qualified to teach that specialty.
- Submit a Specialty & Advanced Open Water Instructor Verification
Form to the Instructor Services department.
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