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Open Water Instructor - First step to independence

This program prepares you to become an active member of the scuba industry, a sucessful educator, and a valuable dive business employee.

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
• The basics of educational selling using SSI’s Customer Loyalty Cycle

 

 As an Open Water Instructor - OWI you can teach:
Open Water Diver, Scuba Diver, Advanced Adventurer, Stress & Rescue, Scuba Skills Update, Try Scuba and the Universal Referral Program