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2021 Master Diver Challenge
Matt Zimmerman
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The 2021 Master Diver Challenge
SSI has updated their 2021 Master Diver Challenge program and now there are three prizes to win in 2021. One each for Master Diver, Advanced Open Water Diver and Specialty Diver. This is an awesome opportunity to win free trips around the world just for doing the dives and courses you already want to do this year! At our shops there are group courses planned every weekend and we can organize a scuba certification course for you at any time added onto our daily boat charters. You can qualify for a Specialty Diver rating with only one charter if you have 12 logged dives. This program is truly for everyone.
How to earn the free certifications
In the SSI system Specialty Diver, Advanced Open Water Diver and Master Diver are all free ratings. You get there by booking specialty courses and logging dives in your MySSI App. You can click on the picture here to get the free app and start a variety of free programs right away. Enter to win these prize by earing these FREE certifications:
- Specialty Diver
- 12 logged dives
- 2 specialty certifications
- Advanced Open Water
- 24 logged dives
- 4 specialty certifications
- Master Diver
- 50 logged dives
- 5 specialty certification one of which much be Stress and Rescue
The 2021 Grand Prize for Master Diver
The Grand Prize is a liveaboard trip for 2 people to the Red Sea on an Aggressor liveaboard. Can be completed anytime in 2022. The prize has a value of $5400. That is pretty amazing. Island Divers did a liveaboard trip to the Red Sea in 2007. The diving was fantastic and we added on a week to go explore the antiquities of Egypt. We used another operator but I know that Aggressor can arrange this extra week as well. It was a combination of the upper Nile temples and tombs and Cairo for the pyramids. The upper Nile was our favorite. Karnak temple being the highlight in our opinion.
Here is a high quality link Red Sea Master Diver Challenge for 2021 to the prize description.
2021 prize for earning Advanced Open Water
The prize for earning you Advanced Open Water in 2021 is a single space at the Blue Angel dive resort in Cozumel. It is based on dbl occupancy, so you’ll need to bring a buddy or pay for a single supplement, but it is still a great prize. Island Divers Hawaii Dive Travel plans a trip here every couple of years. Here is a past example.
2021 prize for earning Specialty Diver
The prize for earning your Specialty Diver rating is 4 days of diving and 5 nights hotel at the Looe Key Reef Resort in Florida. Also based on double occupancy. What is great about this prize is that almost everyone can enter to win. Without even coming to Hawaii you could book a Nitrox Course and a Marine Ecology course, have logged at least 12 dives, and SSI will issue you a free Specialty Diver rating and automatically enter you to win. That is pretty amazing. We can set this courses up for you at anytime, from anywhere, just give us a call.
I love it, how can I get started?
Easy. Keep logging your dives in the free MySSI app. SSI regularly updates your profile with courses and dives and automatically applies your free earned ratings and enters you to win. Prizes are awarded in January of 2022 after everyone that earned the rating that year is entered. So all you need to do is start earning those specialty certifications. If you are visiting Oahu and booking dives with us, the easiest to add on is Nitrox for $125. That is the world’s most popular specialty and a good one to have. Nitrox does not require dives, so you can actually do it remotely. However, most people want to dive the gas during the course. Another easy way is to add on a fully online Ecology course, like the Marine Ecology course we have planned for March 20th. For dive club members, probably the best way is to join one of are Group Continuing Education courses that happen all year long on weekends.
