SSI Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida

The SSI Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida (SSI ITC) with Nusa Penida Diving is a high-standard 14-day program designed to take you from experienced diver to confident, job-ready instructor. The package includes all SSI fees (including the IE fee, instructor kits, and required processing).

Candidates are encouraged to train with their own total diving system; gear is not included, but rental equipment is available if needed. Training is delivered by one of our two experienced Platinum Instructor Trainers in a professional, modern classroom environment.

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From IDR 34,000,000
Duration: 14 Days
Dives: Unlimited
Max Depth: 40 Meters
Pre-requisites: Active Status Divemaster, Active React Right, 100 logged dives
Minimum Age: 18+
What’s Included: Certification + IE Fee

What’s Included In The SSI Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida?

The SSI Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida course is built for candidates who want serious preparation, not a rushed checklist. We focus on expert-quality skill demonstrations, clean teaching structure, and polished real-world problem spotting. You’ll leave the ITC ready not just to pass the Instructor Evaluation, but to teach confidently from day one with strong in-water control, clear academic delivery, and reliable standards.

Theory

In the SSI Instructor Training Course materials, we cover the full academic framework across ten key chaptersOverview of SSI, Duties of an SSI Professional, Program Administration, Academic Sessions, In-water Training, Assistant Instructor Programs, The Open Water Diver Program, Open Water Instructor Specialties, Diver Stress & Rescue and Divemaster, and The Business of Diving. This structure ensures you understand the teaching system, course logistics, risk management, and the professional expectations that come with the instructor role.

Practical Applications

To successfully complete the ITC portion, you will deliver and pass three academic presentations (from Open Water Diver, Perfect Buoyancy, and Diver Stress & Rescue), pass the ITC final exam, demonstrate expert-level skill quality, and pass two student skill evaluations; one in confined water and one in open water.

After the ITC, the SSI Indonesia Service Center administers the Instructor Evaluation (IE). At the IE, you will complete a 50-question exam, deliver an academic presentation, perform three expert-level skill demonstrations, and pass pool and ocean simulated student evaluations with effective problem spotting. You will also complete the Education System Evaluation and the Professionalism exam.

Confined Water

Confined water training is focused on building instructor-grade control and teaching clarity. You’ll refine skill demonstrations to demonstration-level quality while neutrally buoyant in the diving position and practice student-handling and problem-spotting scenarios, ensuring your delivery is stable, neutral, and easy for real students to follow.

Open Water Dives

Open water training emphasizes calm, demonstrable leadership under real conditions. You’ll complete instructor-standard skill demonstrations and simulated student evaluations that mirror the IE format, with strong attention to control, positioning, sequencing, and corrective teaching; the exact performance markers required to pass and succeed as an active instructor.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Our Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida is completed in 14 days. That timeline is deliberate: it’s long enough to build consistency across academics, in-water performance, and teaching practice—without dragging the program out so far that momentum drops. Across the 14 days, you’ll cycle through classroom sessions, confined water practice, open water teaching scenarios, and structured feedback loops so you’re improving daily, not just “getting through requirements.” The goal is that by the end of the Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida, you can deliver clean briefings, demonstrate skills at a demonstration-quality level, control students in real conditions, and evaluate performance with confidence.

To join the Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida, you need:

Active-status SSI Divemaster
100 logged dives
Active React Right certification including O2 provider
Medical clearance to dive

These prerequisites aren’t just paperwork—they ensure you arrive ready for professional-level training. Instructor training moves fast, and the program assumes you already have strong foundational diving ability, situational awareness, and a professional mindset. If you’re unsure whether your status or documentation is current, sort that out before arrival so your first days of the Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida can stay focused on training—not admin.

You’ll cover the 10 chapters of the SSI Instructor Training Course, then apply them directly through practical teaching and in-water sessions. A major focus is in-water performance at a professional standard: you’ll perform the full skill circuit neutrally buoyant, refine your demonstration-quality skills, and develop the ability to spot problems early—both in confined water and open water environments—while students are performing skills.

Just as importantly, you’ll train how to teach skills properly: how to brief so students know what “good” looks like, how to evaluate performance against clear criteria, and how to debrief in a way that improves the next attempt fast. The goal of the Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida isn’t that you can repeat standards—it’s that you can translate standards into clear coaching, calm control, and consistent student outcomes.

You should arrive able to perform skills confidently at divemaster level. The Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida is not where you learn core skills—it’s where you refine and perfect them to instructor standard: cleaner demonstrations, better control, better positioning, and better awareness while supervising others.

If your skills are a bit rusty or you’re not feeling sharp, we can run a 2-day skills refresh before the course starts. That refresh is designed to get you back into “professional comfort” so you can step into the ITC ready to improve details, not relearn basics. The candidates who perform best in the Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida are the ones who arrive prepared and then use the 14 days to polish everything to a higher level.

Yes—because it should be. Instructor training is professional training. You’ll be expected to perform consistently, communicate clearly, and show good judgment under pressure. Many candidates find the challenge is less about “diving harder” and more about managing the full teaching load: planning, briefing, positioning, watching multiple students, identifying issues, and keeping the environment calm and controlled.

The upside is that difficulty is productive: by the end of the Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida, you’ll have a system for how to teach—not just a certification card. You’ll know how to run skills cleanly, how to troubleshoot student mistakes, and how to stay composed when conditions or student performance aren’t perfect.

Yes. You’ll practice teaching in realistic formats: presenting academics, running confined water skill development, and managing open water sessions where student control and evaluation matter. The Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida is built around repetition and feedback—so you’re not doing something once and moving on. You’ll practice briefing students clearly, demonstrating skills in a way that is easy to copy, spotting errors early, and correcting them efficiently without turning sessions into chaos.

This matters because “being a good diver” is not the same as “being a good instructor.” The course is designed to build teaching structure and professional delivery.

A cheap ITC tends to focus on minimum compliance: doing the required sessions, ticking boxes, and pushing candidates toward evaluation as fast as possible. That can produce instructors who technically qualify, but who aren’t yet strong in control, consistency, or real teaching confidence.

Our high-quality Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida is different: it’s built on coaching, repetition, and honest performance feedback—so you finish the course as a cut-above candidate, not just “ready enough.” We run training as Platinum Instructor Trainers and we push beyond the baseline to build real instructor competence.

We also have an SSI Skill Model on staff—the person who performed the skills used in SSI’s official training videos. If you’re serious about demonstration-quality performance, there’s no better environment than learning directly from someone who helped define what “good” looks like at SSI level. This combination—high standard coaching plus direct access to a skill model—makes the Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida a fundamentally different product than budget ITCs.

You need a full professional dive kit that you can use comfortably every day. Instructor training demands consistency—your buoyancy, trim, and control are harder to maintain if your gear is unfamiliar or constantly changing. If you’re missing pieces, we can help you source and purchase what you need once you’re here.

The key is to show up ready to train. The Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida runs on momentum; having your equipment sorted early prevents you from losing valuable time during the first days.

After graduating, you have two practical routes. First, you can look for work immediately—many candidates are ready to start applying and moving into paid teaching roles. Second, you can continue with us to build experience and strengthen your resume. A lot of graduates choose to stay on because the first real teaching experiences are where you lock in confidence.

If you stay, you can gain teaching exposure while also pursuing additional instructor specialty certifications or even technical diving certifications. That combination—more teaching reps plus more credentials—makes your CV stronger and your real-world ability sharper. For many candidates, the Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida is the start of a longer “build” phase that turns a new instructor into a highly employable one.

Yes. You can combine the Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida with instructor-level certifications based on your goals, and you can also pursue technical training if you want to grow that direction. The smartest approach is usually to pick specialties that match the work you want—then build confidence teaching them through real exposure.

We can also structure opportunities for you to co-teach alongside us so you learn not just the standards, but how to deliver the course smoothly in the real world: pacing, student management, briefing flow, and the little operational details that make teaching feel professional. Many candidates use the Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida as a platform to grow quickly—stacking teaching experience, specialties, and advanced training into a resume that stands out.

Send your current certification level, confirmation of active SSI Divemaster status, logged dive count, current React Right/O2 provider status, and your preferred dates. Include a quick note on your goals (work ASAP, stay for experience, pursue specialties, go technical, etc.). With that information, we’ll confirm eligibility and map out the cleanest plan for your Instructor Training Course in Nusa Penida—including whether a 2-day skills refresh makes sense before day one.