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After mastering basic diving skills, learn some more specialised techniques according to your diving style! Choose an attractive course that will expand your field, such as completely mastering neutral buoyancy, underwater photography, and navigation, a basic skill as an independent diver.
How you enjoy the underwater world is entirely up to you. Once you get used to being underwater, you'll start wanting to improve your skills. Maybe you'll want to competely master neutral buoyancy or learn how to use a compass or take underwater photos or take your time observing marine life. The SSI Specialty Courses are designed to answer those kinds of requests and you'll be able to choose a theme you like from a field you are interested in. All courses will be held during our dive cruises, so you'll be able to enjoy your dives and complete your course in your own time.
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Natural navigation exercise using sandpaper。
The SSI Specialty Courses are for customers joining one of our cruises. They incorporate different subjects into the dives on offer, and there is plenty of time during the cruise so you'll be able to take the courses at your own pace and have fun while doing them. Because our cruises go to different kinds of sites, various specialty courses are possible. You'll immediately be able to use on actual dives the skills you've acquired.
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Number of days required：１Days／２Dives COURCE INFO：THB 5,800-
Have you ever wondered why dive guides can reach their destination underwater without getting lost? Compared to land, your field of vision is more narrow and there are very few land marks and targets. Where are you now and where are you going? You will need basic navigation skills to judge this. For this topic, you will learn basic compass navigation skills such as the distance you cover for a given length of time and the clues in nature that you can use. You will then make use of this to learn how to dive according to a plan, without getting lost underwater. This topic is extremely useful for those of you thinking it's about time you stopped just following your guide!
Number of days required：１Day／２Dives COURCE INFO：THB 4,800-
If you unable to get the most appropriate buoyancy, for example because you are overweighted, this will be a burden physically, you will consume air more quickly and the risk of safety-related problems like sudden ascents is more likely. It's also easier to damage the underwater environment by kicking up sand on the sea bottom or accidentally kicking coral. In this topic, you'll learn how to prepare the right amount of weights for you, understand the relationship between buoyancy and the timing of your breathing and acquire the skills to move freely underwater while maintaining complete neutral buoyancy.
Number of days required：１Day／２Dives COURCE INFO：THB 5,800-
Nitrox is a mixed gas with a higher oxygen concentration than usual air. Because it contains a low proportion of nitrogen, a longer no-decompression limit and shorter rest time at the surface both become possible. Nitrox is ideal for those who wish to enjoy the underwater world for longer or want plenty of time to take photographs. During the course, you'll board a cruise ship equipped with nitrox filling stations. While enjoying your diving, you'll learn about the benefits and risks of nitrox diving, how to plan a dive using a special dive table and how to check oxygen concentration. You'll also dive with a nitrox tank. To Course details page
Number of days required：１Day／3Dives COURCE INFO：THB 5,800-
When you dive at deeper depths, because of the increase in water pressure, you use air more quickly and your no-decompression limit gets shorter. This increases the risk of decompression sickness, being out of air and nitrogen narcosis. This topic will teach you how to manage these risks, go beyond the Open Water Diver depth limit of 18m and teach you what to be aware of in order to dive safely at even deeper depths. Your air consumption and tolerance to nitrogen narcosis will also be tested at such depths, and you will experience how to set up and use an extra air supply (drop tank). After taking this topic, you will no longer have a maximum depth limit so you'll be able to enjoy a new underwater world you couldn't experience before, such as rocks at deep depths and dynamic drop-offs.
Number of days required：２Days／２Dives COURCE INFO：THB 5,800-
When you picture the sea at night, you probably think of a dark and quiet world. However, like on land, the sea is also home to nocturnal species and even in a pitch black ocean at night, a series of active scenes and drama is unfolding. You'll see crustaceans (prawn and crab species) that hide in gaps in the rocks during the day or feeding scenes involving species like Moray Eels or Barracudas. Night diving is fun and attractive and just as good, if not better than, diving during the day. This topic covers what you need to be aware of to dive safely at night and how to communicate using a light.
Dive sites such as drop-offs and submerged rocky reefs have strong currents and tend to attract bigger species like sharks or large migratory species. At sites like these, you can enjoy some dynamic diving. Drift diving is a style of diving where you ride the current and move over a long distance while saving energy. It's a standard form of diving during dive cruises off the Similan Islands. This topic will cover what you need to be aware of to dive safely in strong currents, how to enter and exit the water, and techniques such as how to cope with strong currents.
It's only natural to want to take photos of a beautiful world and show them to your family and friends who don't dive. Today, almost all digital cameras have a waterproof case and underwater photos have come under a huge review. In this topic, you'll learn the basics of using your underwater camera, techniques to capture the good side of a subject so you don't damage the undewrater environment and how to approach fish so they don't swim away.
Have you ever had trouble explaining to your buddy a fish that you were interested in underwater? This topic focuses on the shape of fish and lets you master the skills of dividing species such as Gobies and Horse Mackerel into general categories. With this, it's no problem if you don't know the names of fish. You'll be able to ask your buddy or guide questions such as "what was that small white Goby under that rock?" and feel your post-dive conversations become all the more animated and exciting.
Naturally, the first creature you spot underwater is fish but the ocean is home to a range of species that seem to strike an impressive balance and live and thrive in harmony with one another. Species include invertebrates like coral and jellyfish, crustaceans like prawns and crabs, underwater plants like seaweed and kelp and mammals like dolphins and whales. This topic focuses on creatures other than fish that you may not have been concerned about until now, and opens the door to interest in an even deeper underwater world.
