Extended Range Wreck Diving Instructor

Share the thrill of Extended Range wreck diving. Become a wreck dive instructor! If you dream of exploring iconic wrecks worldwide and enhancing your SSI Professional career, this is the best way to do it!

Your SSI Extended Range Wreck Diving Instructor certification will allow you to certify new, advanced and Extended Range wreck divers. Get started now!

 

What Will You Learn?

The SSI Extended Range Wreck Diving Instructor course provides the skills and knowledge you need to teach and certify new, advanced and Extended Range wreck divers. This exciting course is the best way to become a certified Wreck Diving Instructor and teach at dream locations around the world.

Start your wreck diving instructor adventures now!

The SSI Extended Range Wreck Diving Instructor Course consists of three main phases:

  • Four Academic Sessions (Independent study or in a classroom)
  • One Pool / Confined Water Session
  • Two Open Water Dives- Where its time to use the knowledge and skills you acquired, in the open ocean to complete the SSI Extended Range Wreck Diving Instructor Course.

Maximum Training Depth : 40 meters / 130 feet

What Will You Do?

Option 1

  • Co-teach at least two (2) complete Extended Range Wreck Diving programs with an active status Extended Range Wreck Diving Instructor Trainer.

Option 2

Attend a two-day seminar and successfully complete:

  • A review of all SSI General Training Standards, and the standards related to the XR programs the candidate is earning a certification for.
  • A review of the program-specific student and instructor materials.
  • The applicable final exams.
  • An academic presentation on a topic applicable to the program and training level.
  • An equipment configuration session for the appropriate Total Diving System.
  • The XR Candidate Water Fitness Evaluation as outlined in the SSI Training Standards if it has been more than six months since the candidate has been evaluated.
  • A dry land skills session that includes the presentation and evaluation of all required program skills. All skills must be done with demonstration quality.
  • A pool/confined water session that includes the presentation and evaluation of all required program skills. All skills must be done with demonstration quality.
  • An in-water teaching presentation on a topic applicable to the program and training level.
  • While acting as an instructor, plan and conduct at least two (2) dives from the Extended Range Wreck Diving program.
  • Demonstrate the ability to rescue an unconscious diver by traveling horizontally for 10 meters, then bringing the diver to the surface from a depth of between 5 and 10 meters.

Notes

  • During the planned dives, the candidate will supervise an assistant or another candidate acting as the student.

Course Schedule

Recommended hours for completion: 20. The number of classes, hours and sessions per day are set by the individual instructor, based on student needs, student ability and water conditions.

Course Price

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Student Learning Materials Price

INR 5,850

Course Prerequisites

  • Own and use a Total Diving System in the appropriate equipment configuration as outlined in the SSI General Training Standards.
  • Complete the XR Instructor Assessment Form and provide proof of the required teaching and diving experience.

Have the following SSI certifications or an equivalent from a recognized training agency:

  • Extended Range Wreck Diving

Have the following active status SSI certifications or an equivalent from a recognized training agency:

  • Deep Diving Instructor
  • Diver Stress & Rescue Instructor
  • Enriched Air Nitrox Instructor

Have at least the applicable certification to teach this program in an alternate equipment configuration (in addition to the above):

  • Extended Range Instructor
  • Extended Range Foundations Instructor ( Twinset)
  • Recreational Sidemount Diving
  • Specialty Instructor CCR Diving Instructor
  • SCR Diving Instructor

Equipment Requirements

During all in-water scuba training, each student must be equipped with a properly fitted Total Diving System:
• Mask
• Snorkel
• Fins
• Buoyancy compensator with power inflator
• Weight System
• Delivery System with cylinder, primary regulator and alternate air source
• Information System with submersible pressure gauge, depth gauge, and timing device (a dive computer is recommended)
• Exposure suit appropriate for the environment
• Logbook

*Equipment will be provided by your Dive Centre. We recommend that you should get your own gear once you become a certified diver.

Students participating in this program must use at least one of the following equipment configurations:

  • A complete Single-Cylinder Total Diving System as outlined in the XR General Training Standards.
  • A complete Twinset Total Diving System.
  • A complete Sidemount Total Diving System.
  • A complete CCR Total Diving System.
  • A complete SCR Total Diving System.

And

  • Primary and back-up lights.
  • One (1) reel or spool with a minimum of 45 meters of line.
  • One (1) primary line reel per dive team (team reels may be provided by the instructor).
  • A minimum of two (2) line arrows or referencing exit markers (REM).

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