Dive Pirates Foundation uses new SSI tools to train disabled divers

The Dive Pirates Foundation spent the month of April providing regional dive training to dive centers interested in offering diving to persons with disabilities. Five dive centers took part in the training aimed at updating current Adaptive Dive Instructors with the new standards for training disabled divers, now called Classified Diver Instructors, while inviting other centers to join in during this first round of training. “Scuba Schools International (SSI) has revamped what used to be called Adaptive Diver Instruction to a new Classified Diver Program that truly evaluates what a diver with disabilities can do, and then uses that information to classify that diver as a Class 1, 2, 3 or 4 diver,” explained Barbara T...
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