Open Water Instructor (OWI)

Dive Control Specialist + the Instructor Training Course. This program will teach you how to develop confident and comfortable divers who will commit to the sport. Your training includes learning how various industry stakeholders interact – manufacturers, media, agencies, retail, and travel, how successful dive retailers and resorts operate, the SSI education system and education philosophy, techniques for teaching home study academics, pool and open water, the legal aspects of teaching and the basics of educational selling using SSI’s customer loyalty cycle.

Open Water Instructors (OWI) teach
and issue certifications for:


  • Indoor Diver
  • Scuba Diver
  • Junior Open Water Diver
  • Open Water Diver
  • Advanced Adventure
  • Scuba Skills Update
  • Try Scuba
  • Try Scuba Diving
  • Diver Stress & Rescue
  • Nitrox


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