Course overview

Take your first breaths underwater with the SSI Try Scuba experience in Moalboal, Cebu, with no certification required. After a short briefing and shallow-water practice, an SSI professional leads you on a guided dive along the gentle Panagsama Beach house reef, home to turtles and a large resident sardine school. It is a relaxed introduction to the underwater world.

What you’ll learn

Prerequisites

What's included · What's not

Included
  • Introduction to scuba equipment and safety
  • Confined/shallow-water skill practice with an instructor
  • One guided dive on the house reef
  • All scuba and snorkel gear provided
  • SSI professional supervision throughout
Not included
  • Flights and airport transfers
  • Accommodation
  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenses
  • Gratuities

The SSI Discover Scuba pathway

SSI Try Scuba is an introductory experience rather than a certification. If you continue, the skills can be credited toward the SSI Open Water Diver course, with progress recorded on the SSI digital platform.

Where you'll dive in Moalboal

SSI Try Scuba runs on the sheltered Panagsama Beach house reef in warm 27-29°C water, an easy shore site where beginners often meet turtles and the resident sardine ball.

Prefer a different certifying agency?PADI Discover Scuba in Moalboal →

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 Cebu (CEB) · 7-8 hours from India.

Where to stay

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