Course overview

The SSI Scuba Diver certification is a fast-track credential suited to a short Pondicherry trip, earned in roughly two days. You'll dive the warm Bay of Bengal to 12m under supervision, building real skills on the reefs and fish-aggregation sites off India's east coast.

What you’ll learn

Prerequisites

What's included · What's not

Included
  • SSI Scuba Diver digital theory modules
  • Confined-water skill sessions
  • Two open-water training dives
  • Core safety-skill mastery
  • Equipment-handling practice
  • Repeat-to-mastery sessions
  • SSI Scuba Diver digital certification
Not included
  • Flights and airport transfers
  • Accommodation
  • Travel insurance
  • Personal expenses
  • Gratuities

The SSI Scuba Diver pathway

SSI Scuba Diver uses digital materials and a performance-based model, upgrades to SSI Open Water Diver, and certifies with a digital SSI credential.

Where you'll dive in Pondicherry

SSI Scuba Diver dives stay at 12m on Pondicherry's gentle Bay of Bengal reefs. Calm Oct-May seas and 27-30C water create easy learning conditions among reef fish, parrotfish and butterflyfish on the shallow fish-aggregation structures.

Prefer a different certifying agency?PADI Scuba Diver in Pondicherry →

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 Chennai (MAA) · 1-3 hours from India.

Where to stay

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