EL MAR DIVING CENTER

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Lake Certification Dives, 2 Dives Required
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

Required Equipment

• Total Diving System
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment
• Boat Charter Fees

The ocean is filled with dive sites, but many of them cannot be reached from shore. This program gives you the skills and knowledge required to safely dive from a boat, allowing you to get the most from your underwater opportunities.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Certification Dives, 2 Dives Required
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

Required Equipment

• Total Diving System
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment
• Boat Charter Fees

Coral reefs are the building blocks of many ocean ecosystems. This program teaches you how to recognize and identify common families of coral species.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card
• Student Digital Materials

 

El Mar Diving Centers Decompression Diving Specialty will teach you how to dive beyond the no-decompression limits. You will learn to plan and conduct dives to a maximum depth of 130 feet with limited decompression using your recreational total diving system and a single decompression cylinder. You will learn and practice how to effectively use your dive computer features, including switching gases, gas integration, time-to-reserve, and time-to-surface. Using these computer functions will become second nature, enabling you to safely conduct dives with limited decompression without hours of dive planning.

Upon completion, you will earn the SSI Decompression Diving Specialty certification and be able to explore stunning deep dive sites or larger wrecks without being restricted by the traditional no-decompression limits. The opportunities to expand your diving adventures have just got bigger!.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Pool Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Certification Dives, 3 Dives Required
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card
• 40 cu.ft. Decompression Cylinder w/ Regulator

Requirements

• Min. Age, 18 Years Old
• 24 logged dives
• Deep Diving Specialty
• Enriched Air Nitrox Specialty
• Total Diving System
• BCD w/ appropriate D-rings for stage cylinder attachment
• Dive Computer with Decompression Capabilities
• DSMB & 100' Spool
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment
• Travel Fees
• Boat Charter Fees

Many exciting dive sites are located in deeper water. Without proper training, this kind of diving puts you at risk. The SSI Deep Diving Specialty will give you the ability to safely and comfortably plan and conduct dives beyond 60 feet, and is a prerequisite for some advanced training.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Pool Session
• Certification Dives, 3 Dives Required
• Student Digital Materials
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

Required Equipment

• Total Diving System
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment
• Boat Charter Fees

This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably dive while using a dry suit. You will learn the special requirements for dry suit diving, how to use your new equipment, the benefits of a dry suit, and how to deal with emergency situations that are unique to dry suit diving.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Certification Dives, 2 Dives Required
• Training Drysuit
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

Required Equipment

• Total Diving System
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment
• Boat Charter Fees

The SSI Enriched Air Nitrox program will teach you how to safely plan and dive with enriched air mixtures of up to 40% oxygen. Diving with enriched air can increase your no-decompression limits, increase your safety, and reduce the required length of your surface intervals when compared to air.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card
• Student Digital Materials

The SSI Equipment Techniques specialty is the best way to learn how to choose and store your dive kit. Working with an experienced and trained SSI Professional, you will learn in-depth information about the components of your Total Diving System and develop a thorough understanding of your diving equipment. You will also practice basic preventative dive equipment maintenance to ensure you get maximum performance and longevity from your Total Diving System.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

 

 

The ocean is filled with fascinating and beautiful fish of every shape and size. This non-diving specialty program teaches you how to identify the common families of Caribbean, Indo-Pacific, and Red Sea reef fish.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

 

This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably dive without a designated dive buddy. You will learn about self-reliance, proper equipment maintenance, and the special considerations and rescue techniques required to dive independently.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Certification Dives, 2 Dives Required
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

Required Equipment

• Total Diving System
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment
• Boat Charter Fees

This program provides a general understanding of the complex and exciting science of marine ecology, which is the study of how organisms interact with each other and the environment, the flow of energy through communities, and the link between ocean ecosystems.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

 

This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably navigate underwater during a dive. You will learn how to use a compass and natural navigation techniques, estimate distance, basic navigation patterns and how to leave and return to a designated point.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Certification Dives, 2 Dives Required
• Student Digital Materials
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

Required Equipment

• Total Diving System
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment
• Boat Charter Fees

This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely and comfortably dive at night or in limited visibility conditions. Some of the ocean's most amazing creatures only come out at night, so your dive doesn't have to end when the sun goes down. You will learn how to enter and exit the water, use specialized equipment, and how to communicate and dive with a buddy at night or in limited visibility.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Certification Dives, 2 Dives Required
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

Required Equipment

• Total Diving System
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment
• Boat Charter Fees

Do you want to increase your buoyancy control, minimize your breathing gas consumption, or move effortlessly above the ocean floor? The SSI Perfect Buoyancy program teaches you the skills and techniques needed to maximize your dive experience, increase your comfort in the water, and get the most from your equipment.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Pool Training
• Digital Materials
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

Required Equipment

• Total Diving System
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment

This program teaches you the skills needed to dive with an underwater camera, and provides the in-depth knowledge and experience required to properly use, maintain and store your equipment. Our goal is help you capture your amazing underwater experiences.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Pool Training
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

Required Equipment

• Total Diving System
• Camera with Underwater Housing
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment

React Right is SSI's emergency training program, consisting of the following basic components: Primary Assessment, First Aid & CPR Skills, Primary Stabilization Techniques, and includes two optional components: Oxygen Administration in Diving Emergencies and Automated External Defibrilation Basics. .

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card
• Student Digital Materials

Required Equipment

• Rescue Pocket Mask

This program provides an in-depth and detailed study of physics, physiology, decompression theory, the aquatic environment and diving equipment. It is required training for most SSI Dive Professional programs, as well as some Extended Range programs.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card
• Student Digital Materials

 

 

This program provides the skills and concepts required to safely plan and conduct search and recovery dives. You will learn about search patterns, specialized dive plans, underwater communication, and how to recover small to medium-sized objects using specialized equipment like lift bags.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Certification Dives, 2 Dives Required
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

Required Equipment

• Total Diving System
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment
• Boat Charter Fees

This program teaches you the skills and concepts required to recognize and identify common species of sea turtles, describes their history and role in marine ecosystems, and threats to their survival.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

 

 

Many humans fear sharks, but is that reputation deserved? By taking the SSI Shark Ecology program, you will learn how sharks and their behavior are often misunderstood, and how you can safely observe them in their natural habitat.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

 

The El Mar Diving Center recreational sidemount diving course is the best way to discover and enjoy the enticing advantages of this dive style. You learn all the skills and knowledge you need to safely and comfortably dive with a two-cylinder sidemount equipment configuration.

Sidemount diving is already common practice for wreck, mine, and cave divers, but now the benefits are being discovered by more recreational divers. With no heavy tank on your back, you’ll be more comfortable in the water and find your streamlining and trim improve effortlessly. By using less energy you may reduce your gas consumption so you can make the most of your dive time. With better buoyancy control, easier access to your valves and more redundancy as well, sidemount diving offers safety and peace of mind.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Pool Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Certification Dives, 3 Dives Required
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card
• Sidemount Regulators
• Sidemount Harness

Requirements

• Min. Age, 18 Years Old
• Total Diving System
• DSMB & 50' Spool
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment
• Travel Fees
• Boat Charter Fees

Stress is a major cause of diving accidents and negatively impacts rescue situations. This program teaches you the skills and knowledge required to recognize and deal with stress, prevent accidents and properly deal with emergency situations encountered by divers.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Pool Training
• Lake Certification Dives, 2 Dives Required
• Student Digital Materials
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

Required Equipment

• Rescue Pocket Mask
• Total Diving System
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment
• Boat Charter Fees
• Lake Entry Fees

Water motion can have a tremendous effect on your diving experience This program gives you the skills and knowledge required to conduct dives from shore, in currents, and in different types of waves.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Certification Dives, 2 Dives Required
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

Required Equipment

• Total Diving System
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment
• Boat Charter Fees

Many of the ocean's best dive sites have artificial reefs, or wrecks that have sunk through the ages. This program gives you the skills and knowledge required to safely scuba dive above and around these underwater treasures.

What El Mar Diving Center provides

• Classroom Training
• Student Digital Materials
• Certification Dives, 2 Dives Required
• Instructor Fee
• Digital Certification Card

Requirements

• Min. Age, 15 Years Old
• Total Diving System
• Smart Phone w/ DiveSSI app /

Additional Fees

• Rental Equipment
• Travel Fees
• Boat Charter Fees