About this tour

SSI Search & Recovery.

There goes your camera or wedding ring…Do you want to learn the required techniques to search for lost objects and to recover items accidentally out of sight? SSI has a course for you!

The SSI Search and Recovery course is tailor-made for divers with the ambition to be better able to discover, explore, and appreciate the underwater environment by using research techniques and better preserve and protect the underwater environment. This course makes the open-water diver familiar with the fascinating topic of research diving.

SSI offers a structured program for Search and Recovery where you will learn to perform different search patterns with the help of ropes and compasses and to plan search and recovery operations in a team. You will also learn the correct handling of one or more lifting bags in order to bring heavy objects securely to the surface.

SSI Search & Recovery. The Pre-requisites.

• Minimum age of 18
• Minimum age of 15 with parental consent
• Open Water Scuba Diver Certification.

SSI Search & Recovery. The Training Sessions.

You will learn and practice:

• Gathering information and resources
• Planning a search is the first important step you learn.
• Factors that affect your search and recovery operation
• Planning and organizing your search and recovery operation
• Search techniques
• Recovery techniques
• Dealing with potential problems
• How to locate large and small objects using search patterns
• How to use a lift bag and other recovery methods
• Limited visibility search techniques

SSI Search & Recovery. Learning Method.

Sign up and acquire the Search and Recovery Specialty Course. With digital learning, you can study at your convenience anytime or anywhere on your computer, smartphone, or tablet. The advantage? You safe time and can learn at your own pace.

While this course you will complete academic sessions and assessments, one confined water training and two open water dives. In the end, you will make the final exam.

SSI Search & Recovery. Certification.

Upon completion of all academic and in-water requirements, the SSI Professional may issue the program’s digital certification card.

Certified SSI divers can dive with an equally- or more-qualified buddy in environments equivalent to their training and within the recommended depth limits of their certifications.

Students younger than 15 years old will be certified as an SSI Junior Diver in the applicable program and can dive under the direct supervision of a dive professional, or with a certified adult, in environments equivalent to their training and within the recommended depth limits.