Instructor Courses
Confined Water Instructor
An ample familiarization with the SNSI Training System is the foundation for the Instructor Preparatory Course.
Your SNSI Instructor Trainer will guide you through a complete and rewarding learning experience, both academic and practical.
Open Water Instructor (OWI)
An ample familiarization with the SNSI Training System is the foundation for the Instructor Preparatory Course.
Your SNSI Instructor Trainer will guide you through a complete and rewarding learning experience, both academic and practical.
Advanced Instructor (AI)
The SNSI Basic Specialties are: Hovering Diver, Night Diver, Boat & Drift Diver, Navigation Diver and Deep Diver. These specialties are also needed by the students to be certified as Advanced Open Water Diver. SNSI gives you the choice to teach the Advanced Open Water Diver course as an entire course or to divide it into sections and teach each specialty as an individual course. This is another way to be able to meet your student’s individual needs.
Once you are certified as an SNSI Open Water Instructor you can teach the Dry Suit Diver Specialty. After you have met the requirement of certifying 6 Open Water Diver students you will be able to apply to become an SNSI Advanced Intructor and teach all the basic specialties and the Advanced Open Diver Water course.
Recreational Nitrox Instructor
Becoming an SNSI Recreational Nitrox Instructor will allow you to teach your students about the advantages of breathing Oxygen enriched air during recreational dives: prolonging dive times and improving comfort.
The course pre-requisite is to have an SNSI Open Water Instructor certification, and consists of a seminar taught by your SNSI Instructor Trainer.
The SNSI Recreational Nitrox Instructor certification, in addition to enabling you to teach Nitrox courses, is an essential pre-requisite for teaching the SNSI Divemaster course and for participating in the SNSI Recreational Deco Instructor course and the SNSI TEK Instructor courses.
Underwater Photography Instructor
The SNSI Underwater Photography Instructor program will allow you to teach your students the techniques and “tricks of the trade” for taking underwater images and sharing them with their friends and family.
The course pre-requisite is to posses an SNSI Open Water Instructor certification and attend a seminar taught by an SNSI Instructor Trainer who is certified to offer training and certification in the corresponding program.
Recreational Deco Instructor
With the SNSI Recreational Deco Instructor program you can teach your students how to make the most of their dives by extending bottom times and planning“recreational decompression”.
Decompression will no longer be something to fear, it will become part of their recreational diving. The certification allows the students to dive to a maximum depth of 150 ft /45 m with a maximum decompression stop time of 15 minutes while using an underwater dive computer.
The minimum requirement to participate in the course is to be certified as an SNSI Divemaster Instructor and participate in a seminar taught by an SNSI Instructor Trainer who is certified to teach this program.
Wreck Trek Instructor
With the SNSI Wreck Trek Instructor program you can teach your students how to safely penetrate wrecks. The Wreck Trek Diver Course is an advanced specialty full of information and great practical training.
A minimum requirement to participate in the course is to be certified as an SNSI Divemaster Instructor and participate in a seminar taught by an SNSI Instructor Trainer who is certified to teach this program.
Assistant Trainer
The relationship between the SNSI Assistant Trainer and the SNSI Instructor Trainer is similar to that of the SNSI Divemaster and the SNSI Instructor, who work together and help during the training of the SNSI Instructors. Participation in this program requires possession of an SNSI Divemaster Instructor certification, and consists of working alongside an SNSI Instructor Trainer during an entire Instructor Preparatory Course. The SNSI Assistant Trainer certification is a prerequisite for prior to applying for the SNSI Instructor Trainer Program.
Instructor Trainer
The SNSI Instructor Trainer is one of the most important and distinguished professional levels, because in addition to being the person who develops the training of the SNSI Instructors and their specialties. The Instructor Trainer also participates in the SNSI Advisory Council and is active in the SNSI Training activities and decisions. The SNSI Assistant Trainer who has issued at least 200 SNSI certifications of any level and has participated in a full SNSI Instructor Preparatory Course IPC with an Instructor Trainer, can apply for participation in a SNSI Instructor Trainer program. SNSI Headquaters, will review the application and will determine the candidates qualifications to participate in the program.
