my name is Anaelle and I am an SSI divemaster and Padi Rescue Diver

you might notice that I said SSI and Padi at the

Beginning of my Scuba title that's because these are the scuba school that are affiliate with

There is many differents scuba school

and as a beginner it might be quickly difficult to understand which scuba school you might

Fit better in and you might be a bit lost

So I want to do this video to give you a bit of advice on

My personal understanding of the different scuba schools

I'm going to talk about Padi

Ssi, and the French Federation

Because these are the one I worked with

the French federation might be something similar to some thigs in your country, so I really wanted to do something

Different that you can have too

so I started diving when I was about 10 and I started diving with

Padi, so I was a junior open water diver and

I started diving in France and then when I was 18

I went to malta to start taking a course as a dive Master and

The scuba school was working with was with SSI

So I switched to SSI

Now, I'm an SSI Divemaster, or Dive guide

and

both my sister and Nicolas have been taking some

French federation class so I can talk about these too to show you

What difference and what is similar between this scuba schools

So what's the difference between Padi ans SSI?

They work basicly the same

The graduation system to go from beginner to professional diver

It's quite the same

the difference between these two

And I think that it is main reason why so many scuba schools

are switching to SSI is because

If you have enough money you can be a dive master and within a month

with Padi

Whereas with SSI, you have this time

Approach that you have to take in consideration

So I think you need more time than one month to become a dive master

So that way also I prefer to be on SSI Dive Master

for that time consideration

One major difference also between Padi and Ssi

Are the dive logs

and I prefer Padi dive logs which are these

Whereas ssi dive logs look like that

So this one is really cool because you have one space at the back to put stamps and stuff

Whereas on the Padi ones. We just have to stamp on there and as you can see

My dive log is quite messy like that

but, I mean a

a dive profile is quite

the same if you want to have

Padi refils either than SSI one you can

and if you prefer the system for the SSI, you can switch

the cost for the level are quite the same there is no difference

SSI is part of the Mares group

So as a dive professional you might have to sell Mares

equipment more than any other equipment.

That really depends on the dive center, so

That's something you might have to take in consideration

If you trying to be a dive professional if you're not a fan of Mares stuff

and also Padi it's quite

it's still the most famous dive school that you might have all on the globe

so

If you live in an area that doesn't recognize at all ssi like in france there is no, I mean there's three or four

dive center that recognized Ssi in France

so that might not be the best option for you

Padi is quite recognize in France

but the main

scuba-diving

Entity is France is the French federation, and I'm going to talk about it right now

as I said before both my sister and Nicolas class has been there

what I liked about Padi and

Ssi was that could level up wherever you wanted on the planet like I had my open water in Chamrousse

I had my

advance part one in Brittain and part two in the Caribbean and I had my dive master

With SSI in Malta so like

wherever I wanted, but with the french system you have to be affiliated with a club that has to be in your city and

You go there

diving every week

It doesn't have to be diving every week that you can have theory or you can have like swimming lessons

in a week in your Local swimming pool

Nick and my sister were happy about that because

it gave them regularly training like every week, we're going to dive or at least swim and

It gave them some where they belong to like they had a group and they knew they were going to

Dive with them they had several buddies that they were going in group in excursion

Which is something you don't have that much with Padi and SSI

several times when I was working in

Malta I had to

Explain to the other staff members what their level were

they haven't got like open water or advance

They had level one, level 2, level 4... and on and on

So it was really complicated to explain them because

for example the first level is between the open water and the advanced water

Because they were trained all year

they were able to go deeper than the open water one but not as deep as the

Advanced one, so

if you have a

Local level make sure to know the equivalent

To the Padi or the SSI one because

you won't have always someone who is familiar with your

system so sometimes you might be

Deny diving or you might have to prove or to do an equivalency

Which is not something very cool if you are here in vacation, and you want to dive

I can understand that

The last thing

I want to point out is that the french system and I think all the local system

will have that: a diving insurance with their annual

registration which is not offer with

Ssi our Padi system. You might have to purchase an additional

Insurance which is really important and might do a video about that if you want

So yeah, this is it

Hope I cover all the point if you have any more question about the scuba school or entity that you might be

questioning yourself about joining,

please leave them in the comment section below I'd be really happy to help you with that and

You can also tell me in the section comment section which Scuba school you choose and why?

maybe you have some points that I didn't thouht about

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Start Scuba diving, but who's not sure about which one to choose

See you in the next one. Bye