Course overview

SSI Deep Diving opens up south-ari-atoll's deeper reef walls and channel slopes, where grey reef sharks and pelagics cruise below 18m. You extend your safe range to 40m on the atoll's drop-offs while learning careful gas and narcosis management.

What you’ll learn

Prerequisites

What's included · What's not

Included
  • SSI Deep Diving digital materials (free)
  • Repeatable skill sessions on gas and ascent control
  • Deep dives progressively to depth
  • Narcosis-awareness and turnaround drills
  • SSI Deep Diving digital specialty certification
Not included
  • Flights and airport transfers
  • Accommodation
  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenses
  • Gratuities

The SSI Deep Diver pathway

SSI Deep Diving allows training to 40m, includes free digital materials and repeatable sessions, and issues an SSI digital specialty card counting toward Specialty Diver.

Where you'll dive in South Ari Atoll

The atoll's outer walls and kandu slopes fall away past 18m into clear blue water where sharks and rays patrol. Warm 26-30C water and good visibility help, while the light channel current rewards disciplined gas planning.

Prefer a different certifying agency?PADI Deep Diver in South Ari Atoll →

Not included? Sort the rest of your trip

Flights and accommodation aren’t part of the course price, here’s how to book them around your dates.

Getting there

Fly into Malé (MLE) · 3-4 hours from India.

Where to stay

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