Extended Range – Go Beyond

SSI’s Extended Range programs provide avid divers with the training they need to experience the excitement of tec diving. Explore caves, enjoy extended bottom times, and experience the thrill of diving deep reefs and wrecks. Go deeper and further with SSI’s Extended Range programs like Extended Range Trimix, Semi-Closed Rebreather Diving, Extended Range Cavern Diving, Closed-Circuit Rebreather Diving, and more.

The SSI Extended Range specialties are apex programs that give you the highest level of diving skill and knowledge. Once you have completed your training, you will be the best of the best. SSI offers the most comprehensive range of tec diving programs in the industry, including professional tec diving programs. Go farther, deeper, and beyond your limits with SSI Extended Range.

Open-Circuit Programs

SSI’s Extended Range programs provide avid divers with the training they need to experience the excitement of tec diving. Explore caves, enjoy extended bottom times, and experience the thrill of diving deep reefs and wrecks. Go deeper and further with SSI’s Extended Range programs like Extended Range Trimix, Semi-Closed Rebreather Diving, Extended Range Cavern Diving, Closed-Circuit Rebreather Diving, and more.

The SSI Extended Range specialties are apex programs that give you the highest level of diving skill and knowledge. Once you have completed your training, you will be the best of the best. SSI offers the most comprehensive range of tec diving programs in the industry, including professional tec diving programs. Go farther, deeper, and beyond your limits with SSI Extended Range.

Extended Range Foundations

The SSI Extended Range Foundations program is one of the most popular advanced diving specialties under the SSI Extended Range umbrella. It provides you with a workshop environment to improve your diving skills to a high level.

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Extended Range Nitrox Diving

Do you enjoy nitrox diving? The SSI Extended Range Nitrox program will certify you to dive to a depth of 40 meters with limited decompression while diving with nitrox. Start online today!

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Extended Range Trimix

Are you looking to become a tech diver? To dive deeper, farther, or longer than you ever have done before? Begin your journey and extend your range with the SSI Extended Range Trimix diver certification program.

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Extended Range Sidemount

Improve your streamlining and diver trim with SSI’s Extended Range Sidemount program. Learn the correct sidemount configuration and techniques to go diving with multiple stage cylinders efficiently and effectively. Start today!

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Technical Extended Range Trimix

SSI’s Technical Extended Range Trimix diving program will train you to independently go mixed gas diving to a maximum depth of 60 meters. Dive beyond the no-decompression limit with this highly technical, exciting certification.

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Hypoxic Trimix

Push your technical diving skills to the limit with SSI’s Hypoxic Trimix program. Use all the knowledge and experience gained from your previous advanced dive training to go on the ultimate decompression dive. Start deep trimix diving today!

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Rebreather Programs

SSI’s rebreather programs allow you to experience the underwater world with silence and with extended times. Take your tec diving skills to the next level when you enroll in an SCR Diving or CCR Extended Range Trimix program. Go deeper as a CCR Technical Extended Range diver or become the ultimate deep rebreather diver with the SSI CCR Hypoxic Trimix program.

SCR Diving

Dive into the world of rebreathers with this entry-level semi closed rebreather certification. Learn how to independently plan and conduct no-decompression dives to a maximum depth of 30 meters using the Mares Horizon rebreather.

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Try SCR

Leave your heavy scuba cylinder behind and experience the peace that rebreathers can bring. In this introductory SCR course, you will use a Mares Horizon semi-closed rebreather and see what rebreather diving is all about.

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Try CCR Diving

Discover tranquility with Try CCR Diving – an intro to silent underwater exploration. Say goodbye to bubbles and immerse yourself in a serene aquatic world. Your silent adventure begins now.

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CCR Diving

Discover underwater silence with the SSI CCR Diving program. Learn all you need to go no-decompression diving to a maximum depth of 30 meters using the SF2, JJ, Poseidon, AP Inspiration, Prism 2, or rEvo rebreather. Start rebreather diving today!

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CCR Extended Range Trimix

Take your diving to the next level and try a rebreather. Earn your SSI CCR Extended Range Trimix certification and sharpen your skills to conduct decompression dives using a rEvo, JJ, AP Inspiration, Poseidon, Prism 2, or SF2 CCR. Get started online today!

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CCR Technical Extended Range

Ready to push your diving further? CCR Technical Extended Range divers conduct unlimited decompression dives to a maximum depth of 60 meters using a closed-circuit rebreather. This is one of the most exciting SSI certification programs available.

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CCR Hypoxic Trimix

The SSI CCR Hypoxic Trimix program is the pinnacle of XR rebreather diving. It expands your safety check and provides the knowledge required to conduct unlimited decompression dives to a maximum depth of 100 meters using a closed-circuit rebreather.

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SCR Extended Range

Advance your rebreather training with SCR Extended Range. Maximize your semi-closed rebreather dive planning, go deeper, sharpen your rebreather diver skills, and strengthen teamwork. Use the Mares Horizon rebreather for this ultimate adventure!

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Extended Range Wreck Diving

The SSI Extended Range Wreck Diving program provides all you need to plan and conduct wreck penetration dives using specialized wreck diving equipment, gas management concepts, and buddy team skills. Start your tec diving adventure with Extended Range Wreck Diving, staying within the light zone to depths shallower than 40 meters, or go beyond those limits with Technical Wreck Diving. Personalize your tec diving experience by selecting to complete these programs in a twinset, sidemount, or rebreather configuration.

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Featured destinations that are ideal for technical diving

Proper skills and experience are your tickets to dive the world’s best dive sites. MyDiveGuide connects divers to the world’s largest dive site database with more than 10,000+ named dive sites, including wildlife maps. Here are some of the world’s top dive sites for technical Divers. Go explore, seek thrilling underwater experiences, and create amazing lifetime memories!

Scotland

On the western coast of Scotland is the Firth of Lorne. Lorne is a now-defunct region of Scotland that a firth is a Scottish term for a long estuary or fjord. This watery area became a Special Area of Conservation in 2005 and has become a great place for diving in western Scotland. On the North Sea and just over the border from Scotland’s neighbor to the south, England, sits the county of Berwickshire. This is a place that is home to approximately 115,000 people and covers an area of 1,184 square kilometers (457 square miles). There are many coastal towns where diving is done throughout the east coast of Scotland but as the water gets colder further north, these spots are fewer and further between. These locations are as far north as Dundee and extend down to Berwickshire with spots in Edinburgh, Falkirk, Burntisland, and North Berwick among a few others. As for the diving, you can expect to explore reefs and dramatic walls, kelp forests where crab, lobster and tinny critters hide out. Then there are the larger animals, from mink whales to basking sharks and hundreds of species of fish, starfish and sun stars. The best spot to dive here is a small fishing village called St Abbs, with its fantastic shore diving opportunities. The east coast in general is dotted with gullies and archways, spectacular marine life and colorful anemones. There is plenty of soft coral to spot as well, not to mention rushing tides and sheer cliffs, then there are the wrecks, the time capsules waiting to be explored on the seabed. The dive season runs from April to October and although you can

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Mexico

Mexico, a country with breathtaking landscapes, is surrounded by the world’s two largest oceans, the Pacific and the Atlantic, which makes it a perfect country for diving. Mexico is also known for its rich culture and some of the world’s most delicious food. You will also find beautiful beaches, friendly people, tequila, mariachi bands and a lot of celebrations such as “Día de Muertos”. The Mayan and Aztec ruins are some of the places that you must explore during your visit to Mexico, along with amazing diving spots.

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Florida

When you think of diving in Florida, also known as “The Sunshine State,” the tropical Florida Keys are probably what comes to your mind. However, there are many great and diverse dive sites in this state. Dive among colorful coral reefs abundant with diverse marine species, discover artificial and real deep shipwrecks and swim in crystal clear freshwater springs and intricate cave systems. Marine life in Florida is widely varied. You can expect to see coral reefs abundant with colorful fish, sharks, rays, turtles, manatees, dolphins, and even the occasional whale shark. Be prepared to dive in one of the world’s largest coral reefs in the world, The Great Florida Reef, which is said to be around 7,000 years old. During winter head to the Crystal River Springs, an area well-known for its abundance of manatees. Diving in Florida, you will also be able to explore ancient cave structures rarely seen by men. Some of the most important cave diving spots in “The Sunshine State” include Ginnie Springs, Peacock Springs State Park, Devil’s Den, Manatee Springs State Park, Blue Grotto, and Morrison Springs County Park. Another must-visit place is John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, a beautiful undersea park with great biodiversity. Florida is the perfect destination for all kinds of diverse as it offers many different types of adventures.

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Italy

Italy is the 4th most populated member of the European Union with over 60 million people. It had the eighth largest economy in the world today and ranks as the 6th richest nation in the world. Italy consists of 20 separate regions, five of which have certain levels of autonomous governing authority. It is also known for its beautiful, temperate Mediterranean climate.

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Philippines

Only a small portion of the more than 7,000 islands that compose the Philippines are inhabited. This is a unique country, multiculturally diverse and with an extraordinary cuisine. Tagalog is the official language of The Philippines; however, the majority of the inhabitants also speak English. This region has the best diving conditions from July to March. From shipwrecks and impressive marine life to idyllic beaches, this country offers incredible adventures for everyone.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka has a modern history that goes back 3,000 years and scientists have found evidence that prehistoric people have inhabited the island for 125,000 years or more. Sri Lanka was colonized by the Portuguese, Dutch, and British over the years and gained independence in 1948. The island has a warm and tropical climate and is home to an amazing range of land animals and marine life.

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