Course overview

The SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty refines your weighting, trim and breathing so you can hover and glide with control, protecting Koh Lanta's delicate soft corals. On the coral walls of Koh Bida and the slopes of Koh Haa you learn to drift centimetres above the reef without contact while using less air. You leave streamlined, properly weighted and noticeably more relaxed in the water.

What you’ll learn

• Establish correct weighting and balanced weight placement
• Achieve neutral buoyancy and a streamlined horizontal trim
• Hover steadily in any orientation
• Control depth using breathing instead of constant BCD input
• Move efficiently to save air and avoid reef contact
• Increase your overall comfort and stability underwater

Prerequisites

• Minimum age 10
• SSI Open Water Diver or equivalent certification
• Basic comfort breathing underwater on scuba
• Diver medical questionnaire (physician sign-off if any condition applies)

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Day-by-day itinerary

1. Day1
   Theory & buoyancy dives

   Work through weighting and trim theory, then complete two training dives at Koh Bida or Koh Haa practising hovering and breath-control buoyancy.

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