SSI Open Water Certification

Want to learn to dive on the Great Barrier Reef? Cairns Dive Centre offers SSI Open Water Certification courses right through to instructor level.

Cairns Dive Centre offers daily SSI learn to dive courses. Open water dive courses take 4 days, the first 2 days are spent at our training centre located in Cairns and then you go out on the reef for 2 days to do your training dives.

• A 4-day open-water budget course costs $440 (2 single day trips out on the reef)
• A 4-day live aboard open water course costs $540 (2 days / 1 night out on the live aboard boat, meals and accommodation included whilst on board the boat.
• A 5 day live aboard open water course costs $660 (3 days / 2 nights out on the live aboard boat, meals and accommodation included whilst on the boat.

Extra costs:

$50 Dive Medical: You must pass an Australian Standards dive medical (AS4005.1) The doctor comes to the classroom on the first day

$7 Photographs for the certification card

$15 per day port, reef and fuel levy whilst at sea

Classes are taught in English, manuals can be in your foreign language

SSI is world recognised, once certified, you can dive anywhere in the world.

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