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We graduate students with dive agency professional ratings that exceed ISO industry standards, creating working divers that are in high demand worldwide.

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NEW CALENDAR

Check Out Our New Calendar for the 2024 School Year!!!

FIT Training 2024

Begin the 8 week Fundamentals of Instructor Training (FIT) program August 6, 2024 and finish the SCUBA Instructor program by April 2025! Orientation will occur on July 23, 2024. Please email Jamie Isenberg for more information.

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Public Safety Diver Program

Our Public Safety Diver Program will begin August 7, 2024. Orientation for this program will occur on July 23, 2024 at 5PM.

Program Overview

Professional Divers Programs

These three programs (FIT, Dive Pro & Divemaster) will take a non-diver and transform you into an experienced dive professional in 12 week of intense training. We will provide you with the knowledge and experience to work at many levels in the dive industry. From retail, tank monkey, and Divemaster to independent instructor of CPR/First aid and skin diving.

Public Safety Diver Program

Through this program, you will gain valuable experience diving in zero-visibility environments, as well as in law-enforcement evidence recording, recovering, and packaging.

Technical Instructor Program

Your knowledge of diving science will be vastly expanded and your diving abilities greatly improved. This rigorous program  provides you with new opportunities in the world of diving and opens doors to previously unreachable dive sites.

SCUBA Instructor Program

This program will provide you with the knowledge and experience needed to train divers in the most popular specialties as well as in training assistant instructors.

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Quality Standards

Waterdogs SCUBA & Safety Institute (WSSI) strongly believes in creating safety conscious, self-sufficient dive professionals by keeping our training ratios small and focusing on each student's overall experience and skill development. WSSI is also focused on creating a training environment that is safe, fun, and welcoming to all types of students, from the most timid to the most bold.

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"WSSI is the best school bcause its the only one wheere you can get 1v1 with students and really teach them."

Richard Russell

Student

"The instructors and staff are very knowledgeable and experienced in their craft and make going through the program really inclusive and exciting. With all the combined experience everyone has, it was very easy to figure out what kind of SCUBA diving I wanted to do and what was required of me to get there. The scheduling was also flexible enough to allow me to participate without calling out of work, which was a big plus...100% would recommend to anyone interested in the underwater world."

Sammy K

Student

Our Goals

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Goal #1

Goal #1

Create a training environment that is safe, fun, and welcoming to all types of students, from the most timid, to the most bold.

Goal #2

Goal #2

Provide sufficient and appropriate knowledge and skill elements to meet the specific International Standards Organization (ISO) and measurable performance outcomes.

Goal #3

Goal #3

Advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas that will best serve the dive industry and their students in the 21st century.

Goal #4

Goal #4

As a SCUBA professional, we have the opportunity to see fear changed to courage, faintheartedness converted to accomplishment, timidity transformed into confidence, and anticipation turned into passion.

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