Advanced Mermaid Training

Are you ready to continue your mermaid journey? With SSI advanced mermaid training, you can expand your skills, become a model and go mermaiding in open water. Do not stop exploring! Further your mermaid training by continuing with Freediver and reach higher SSI training levels from there. Whatever your passion is, we have an SSI Specialty for your needs. Just chose from our various individual programs and get started today! When you complete a certain number of Specialty Programs and Logged Dive Sessions, you will also automatically earn the SSI Specialty Freediver, SSI Progressive Freediver and SSI Master Freediver ratings. These course ratings demonstrate your competency and build a solid base for your future adventures and/or SSI Professional career to come.

Continue your Mermaid Education

To experience the incredible feeling of mermaiding with colorful marine life, join the SSI Ocean Mermaid program. Get certified to go mermaiding in open water, maximize your mermaid experience and learn how to get the most from your mermaid equipment. It is the best course to improve you mermaid skills so you can explore the ocean with confidence!

If you want to capture your amazing mermaid moments and wow your family and friends, join the SSI Model Mermaid program. You will learn to pose for in-water and surface mermaid shots and be taught all you need to interact successfully with a photographer or videographer.

These mermaid courses are perfect for the whole family to enjoy. And if you keep mermaiding, you can become an SSI Mermaid Instructor and more, with our range of professional mermaid programs.

Model Mermaid

Strike the perfect pose and get the perfect shot! Learn how to pose for in-water and surface mermaid photography and capture your amazing mermaid or merman moments. Join the SSI Model Mermaid program.

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Ocean Mermaid

Tired of being confined to a swimming pool? Become an open water mermaid with SSI! Learn how to maximize your mermaid experience, increase your comfort and get the most from your equipment. Join the SSI Ocean Mermaid program now!

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Become a Professional

Continue your career by becoming an SSI Mermaid Instructor. Alternatively, combine your training with freediving by joining a Freediving Basic Instructor Course to graduate as a Freediving Instructor.

Becoming an instructor is just the beginning of an exciting career pathway.

Freediving Assistant Instructor

Become an SSI Freediving Professional. If you are an experienced SSI Freediver and have completed the Training Techniques specialty, you can take the first step toward your professional freediving career by becoming a Freediving Assistant Instructor.

50-64

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Freediving Instructor

Become an SSI Freediving Instructor and take the first step toward a career in training freedivers. Create lifelong water enthusiasts and introduce them to the world of breath-hold training in a fun, safe environment with the SSI educational system.

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Open Water Sessions

Mermaid Instructor

Start a new career and become a mermaid instructor. Work your fairy tale job and go mermaid swimming in the most beautiful places in the world. Your professional SSI Mermaid Instructor certification is recognized worldwide!

24-32

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Featured destinations that are ideal for advanced mermaid training

Have you discovered MyDiveGuide? As the world’s largest dive site database, MyDiveGuide connects you to more than 10,000 dive sites, wildlife maps and more! Choose from idyllic destinations where you can continue your mermaid training, get inspired by other mermaids and plan your next adventure.

With MyDiveGuide, you can combine your mermaid training with a vacation the whole family can enjoy. Start today!

Australia

The world’s largest coral reef, the Great Barrier Reef is the essence of diving in Australia.

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Florida

The Sunshine State Florida offers many great and divers dive sites from the tropical Florida Keys to deep shipwrecks and crystal clear freshwater springs.

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