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Become an SSI Full Mine Diver – Get Started Online Today
SSI Full Mine Diving teaches you complex underwater navigation skills as you learn how to manage a traverse, jump, tee, and gap within a mine. Performing advanced mine dives is as technical as it gets and will take you to exciting dive locations worldwide. Prepare to dive the largest mines in the world by learning lost line, lost light, gas sharing, and lost diver procedures.
Utilizing either an Extended Range Sidemount, Twinset, or Rebreather Total Diving System, the Full Mine Diving program is SSI’s highest-level overhead environment certification, providing all the tools you need to explore the world’s underwater mines.
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Facts and Training Standards
Amount of Academic Sessions
8
Amount of Pool/Confined Water Sessions
1
Amount of Open Water Sessions
8
Maximum Training Depth
100 m / -328 ft
Suggested duration (h)
20
Languages
Level Up Your Mine Diving Skills
Here are the benefits you can expect from attending this training program:
Make multiple navigation decisions - jumps, gaps, and tees
Advance your knowledge of dealing with mine diving emergencies like lost line or lost diver
Take your mine diving deeper and add decompression; the full mine diver is a fully rounded explorer
Continue your Extended Range Training and earn free Recognition
SSI Extended Range offers specific training materials with exciting, cutting-edge manuals developed by industry professionals with decades of technical diving experience. Continue your technical diving training with one of SSI’s many Extended Range specialties. As with all SSI programs, XR is designed to fit your schedule. Training is flexible to match your goals and objectives.
Continue exploring some of the world’s most challenging dive environments. Become an Extended Range Full Cave Diver. The SSI Full Cave Diving program allows complex navigation, and you learn how to manage a traverse, jump, tee and gap within the cave system. Or, take your overhead environment skills into deep shipwrecks with the Technical Wreck Diving certification. Enhance your exploring skills with the Extended Range Sidemount Diving program and learn to equip yourself properly for squeezing into smaller spaces.
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Training Prerequisites
SSI Entry-Level Programs – Open Water Diver, Freediver, or Mermaid require students to complete a water fitness evaluation prior to open water training. The goal of this evaluation is to determine a comfort level baseline consisting of:
Swim Assessment
Survival Float
Technical Requirements
To start training, students must create a MySSI profile. This can either be done via the SSI website at www.divessi.com/register or by installing the MySSI App.
Simply download the app for either iOS or Android, set up the user profile, and access the world of diving in minutes! The MySSI App safely stores everything in one place, online or offline – training materials, logbook, and certification cards. This includes Recreational Scuba, Extended Range, Freediving and Mermaid.
Training Center Selection & Affiliation
Every student must select an SSI Training Center as their “Training Partner” during the course registration process. Affiliation ensures personalized service and a high-quality training experience.
Students can also change affiliation or choose to affiliate with multiple Training Centers in their user profile. When affiliating with a Training Center online or via the MySSI App, a Privacy Policy Agreement will be processed to comply with GDPR regulations.
Medical & Administrative Requirements
Each student or candidate must complete the required SSI Training Record Forms prior to participating in any SSI training program. The forms for minors must be reviewed and signed by a parent or guardian.
Responsible Diver Code
SSI Responsible Diver Code - Scuba DivingSSI Responsible Diver Code - FreedivingSSI Responsible Diver Code - Extended Range DivingDiver Medical Statement & Questionnaire or Physician’s Approval to Dive (where required)
Training Assumption of Risk, Liability Release, & Liability Release, & Hold Harmless Agreement (where required / not applicable within the European Union)
Program-specific Completion Record (done by the Instructor prior to certification)
Training Course Costs
Training consists of various components which are either charged singly or as a package depending on the selected Training Center. The components are:
Training Materials / Digital Kit
Tuition for Academics and In-Water Training
Open Water Training Dives
Certification
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