Course overview

Become a certified diver in Sharm El Sheikh's Red Sea with SSI's flexible, performance-based programme, often combined with a boutique stay near Naama Bay. You train on the gentle house reefs around Ras Katy and Near Garden, then progress toward the walls of Ras Mohammed National Park. Year-round warm water and reefs full of coral and reef fish make the certification dives feel like a holiday rather than a classroom.

What you’ll learn

Prerequisites

What's included · What's not

Included
  • SSI digital training materials and theory sections
  • Pool or confined-water skill development sessions
  • Open-water training dives to a maximum of 18m
  • Swim and watermanship assessment
  • Repeatable skill practice until mastery is shown
  • Equipment and dive-planning briefings
  • SSI Open Water Diver digital certification card
Not included
  • Flights and airport transfers
  • Accommodation
  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenses
  • Gratuities

The SSI Open Water Diver pathway

SSI provides free digital learning materials and a digital certification card. Its performance-based system lets you repeat any skill as many times as you need until you can perform it confidently.

Where you'll dive in Sharm El Sheikh

Sheltered Sharm reefs like Near Garden and Ras Katy give calm 0-18m entries that suit new divers, with coral heads sheltering clownfish, angelfish and morays. Visibility regularly reaches 20-30m and the water sits at 24-28C, with green turtles often gliding over the reef.

Prefer a different certifying agency?PADI Open Water Diver in Sharm El Sheikh →

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 Sharm El Sheikh (SSH) · 5-7 hours from India.

Where to stay

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