Instructor Crossover

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Dive Professional Crossover 

The SSI Dive Professional Crossover program provides an orientation to SSI philosophies and procedures to current dive professionals from selected scuba training agencies.
The crossover program provides candidates with the knowledge and skills needed to conduct SSI programs equivalent to their existing qualifications in a safe and enjoyable manner. 

Since you have already have completed your instructor training with another agency, you already know how to teach divers!

Therefore, our main goal during the course, will be to make you knowledgeable and comfortable with SSI Programs, products and services, so that you may confidently teach SSI courses. Follow the below steps to get started;

1. Register for Your Free Crossover Kit

Register where you plan to collaborate after registration, verify your information, and complete your profile with a photo and contact details. SSI will immediately provide you with a free digital Crossover Kit in your SSI account. 

2. Tell Us About Your Current Training Status

Select your **current training status with other agencies and upload documentation (Certification Counts, Pro Checks). 
Upload required documents such as a Medical Statement, First Aid/CPR/O2 Provider certifications.

3. Pay Your Registration Fee

Pay the registration fee of 200€ through your online shopping cart before starting your In-Water Training. 
SSI sponsors the digital Crossover Kit and funds all equivalent Scuba and Freediving certifications. The registration fee includes the practical in-water training, and professional renewal fees until the end of 2025. 

*Please note that there will be an additional charge of approximately €60 for the physical crossover materials (Pack Dive Professional 471098; Pack Scuba Instructor 471099). These costs will be billed directly by your instructor trainer, where applicable.

4. Choose Your Virtual Academic Training Date

Select from various available dates and languages worldwide during the registration process and start studying the digital training material. Before attending the Virtual Crossover, all candidates are required to complete their Crossover Materials and finish the Final Exam online.

5. Select Your Practical In-Water Training Date

Call the dive centre on 02 4389 3483 to arrange a suitable date for the Instructor Training Crossover. The In-Water Session requires a 2-hour pool/confined water session for a skills review conducted by an active Assistant Instructor Trainer or higher. 

6. Become an Active SSI Professional

After passing the In-Water Training, you will receive your SSI Professional Certifications. These certifications grant you access to SSI’s global network, and you can explore opportunities through the Job Database.

Who is Eligible?

Professionals in current teaching status from most agencies can participate in this program without needing to attend an additional Instructor Evaluation, enquire as to your agency status.

*All candidates require an Instructor Kit cost $85AUD
**If a crossover candidate has been inactive with another agency for greater than five (5) years, they must follow the Returning to Active Status standards.

 

The SSI Instructor crossover program is conducted with one of our Full time Instructor Trainers, with an in-water session as well as a watermanship test.

It is at the discretion of the SSI Service Centre to determine whether additional training or evaluation (e.g. completing a full SSI Instructor Evaluation), is required prior to issuing an equivalent SSI professional-level certification.

Requirements For Completion

Pass all requirements and evaluations listed in the instructor manual for the SSI Professional Crossover.
Complete the program’s final exam.

The candidate should not be currently involved in a quality compliance case with another training agency. If they are part of an active quality compliance case, they must disclose all information about the case with SSI, prior to attending the crossover.

Any candidate who has been expelled from another training agency is automatically disqualified from attending an SSI Professional Crossover.

Note: If the candidate does not inform SSI of their role in an active quality compliance case, is placed in expelled status by another training agency after completing the SSI Professional Crossover, or does not inform SSI of their previous expelled status with another agency, SSI may decertify the candidate or even place them in expelled status, as well.

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