SSI Specialty Courses at Mac's
Enhance your SCUBA skills in a professional environment
Explore different aspects of diving to find your passion
Work your way towards becoming a Master Diver, or even a SCUBA Professional
Gain comfort and confidence for a wider range of diving experiences
Navigation Speciality
In this specialty program, you will gain the advanced skills and knowledge you need to safely and confidently navigate underwater.
You will learn how to use a compass and natural navigation techniques, estimate distance, how to leave and return to a designated point, plus basic navigation patterns.
- Recognize and manage underwater navigation scenarios.
- Develop a better understanding of your navigational equipment.
- Enjoy the confidence of knowing your surrounding and how to navigate accordingly.
Night & Limited Visibility
The SSI Night Diving and Limited Visibility specialty is the best way to learn about night diving and practice the techniques you will need to become a safe and confident night diver.
In this program, you will be provided with all the knowledge and skills you need to safely and comfortably dive at night or in limited visibility conditions
- Learn to safely dive limited Vis settings.
- Better understand how to respond to low vis scenarios.
- Learn proper techniques for these dive profiles.
Deep Certification
The SSI Deep Diving Specialty will teach you all you need to dive to depths up to 130ft, through a mixture of academic sessions and open water dives.
You will learn to plan and safely complete your deep diving adventures and use computers and gas consumption calculations to get the most from your deep dives.
- Dive Deeper & Safer.
- Increase your available diving opportunities.
- Increase knowledge of your diving gear and how to safely utilize each piece.
Perfect Buoyancy
The SSI Perfect Buoyancy specialty is the best way to improve your buoyancy and get the most from every dive.
The Perfect Buoyancy specialty will teach you advanced buoyancy skills and techniques, so you can master your buoyancy more quickly and enjoy more relaxed dive adventures. In this fascinating program, you will also learn new skills that protect the environment and work in every diving situation.
- More control over yourself & your gear.
- Reduce amount of weight you're currently diving on your system.
- Enjoy your dive in a more comfortable manner.
Nitrox Certification
As a Nitrox diver, you can increase your bottom times and safety margins, plus shorten your surface intervals - so you can spend more time diving and less time waiting!
In this program, you will learn new skills and increase your diving knowledge whilst learning how to safely plan and dive with enriched air mixtures of up to 40% oxygen.
- Shorter Survace intervals in between dives
- Added Safety Margin for dives.
- Feel less fatigued and more energized after dives.
Stress & Rescue
A SCUBA emergency is compounded by the fact that you are in the water. Knowing how to recognize and handle stress and rescue situations is an invaluable skill to have. Mac’s Stress and Rescue specialty SCUBA class will teach you the skills and techniques to help you become a much stronger diver by learning skills and techniques to recognize, prevent, and handle dive-related stress, as well as give assistance or possibly assist in a rescue. A MUST for all divers!
- Recognize and manage stress in yourself and other divers.
- Emergency management skills and techniques.
- Rescuing panicked or unresponsive divers.
