SSI diving courses
The best-value way to get certified in Hurghada. Learn with SSI in Hurghada using free digital learning materials, the same experienced instructors and the same Red Sea training dives — usually at our lowest agency price.
Choose your course.
Small groups, experienced instructors and all-inclusive Red Sea training.
Open Water Diver
Learn theory and confined-water skills, then complete four open-water training dives. The planned 3-day schedule depends on progress and conditions. Certification requires successful completion of the chosen agency's requirements; depth and supervision limits depend on age, training and agency rules.
Advanced Open Water Diver
Build on your Open Water certification with five adventure dives over two days. You'll go deeper (to 30 m), navigate underwater with confidence, and choose three specialty dives from a menu including wreck, night, drift, peak performance buoyancy, and underwater photography.
Rescue Diver
Learn to prevent and manage diving emergencies. Over 3 days you'll practise self-rescue, recognise and assist stressed divers, perform tired-diver tows, manage panicked divers at the surface, and orchestrate a missing-diver search. You'll finish a calmer, sharper, more confident diver — the kind every dive buddy wants beside them.
Divemaster
Over 10–14 days (or spread across a longer stay) you'll make 60+ dives, refresh every rescue skill you know, learn to plan and lead certified divers, map a dive site, run a specialty workshop, and assist on real student courses. You'll finish as a PADI, SSI or SDI Divemaster — globally recognised as a dive professional and qualified to guide certified divers anywhere in the world.
Deep Diver Specialty
A two-day specialty that extends your maximum depth from 30 to 40 metres and teaches you the gas-management, narcosis-recognition, and ascent-planning skills you need to dive deep safely. Four guided dives on Hurghada's most dramatic deep sites.
Enriched Air Nitrox
A one-day theory specialty that teaches you to dive safely with enriched air mixes (up to 40% oxygen). No additional in-water training required if you already hold Open Water — just theory, an exam, and a practical analyzing session. The benefits last for the rest of your diving life.
DPV / Scooter Diver
Two days, four dives, one underwater propulsion vehicle. Learn to pilot a DPV (diver propulsion vehicle / scooter), conserve gas, and explore vast stretches of Hurghada reef that are normally out of reach for finned divers.
Bubblemaker (Kids 8-10)
A safe, joyful, and gentle introduction to scuba diving designed specifically for children aged 8 to 10. Conducted in shallow water (max 2 metres) by a certified instructor, in 1:1 or 1:2 ratios. Children leave with a Bubblemaker certificate and a story they'll tell forever.