You’ve booked the trip — the flights, the fast boat across the Lombok Strait, the bungalow ten metres from the water. The last thing you want to do on Gili Air is sit inside with a textbook while everyone else is on the boat.
Here’s the good news: you don’t have to. With the free MySSI app you can get your dive theory out of the way before you arrive — at home, on the sofa, at your own pace. Then you spend your holiday where it belongs: underwater.
The worst time to study is on holiday
Think about when you’d actually be doing the theory if you left it all for Gili Air:
- Day one, jet-lagged, after 20 hours of travel and a boat crossing.
- Or after your first day of diving — sun-tired, salty, three turtles deep, and in no mood to read about nitrogen absorption.
Neither is when your brain is at its best. Studying at home — fresh, unhurried — means the knowledge actually sticks, and your holiday stays a holiday.
Meet MySSI — your whole course, in your pocket
MySSI is SSI’s free app. It holds your digital learning materials, your certifications and your dive log, all in one place. The course content is the same professional SSI material you’d work through with us — just on your phone or tablet, in short sections with videos and quizzes you can do in any order.
Download it free:
- 📱 iPhone / iPad: MySSI on the App Store
- 🤖 Android: MySSI on Google Play
- ℹ️ More about it on the official MySSI page
Get a free head start with us
Here’s the part most people don’t know: you can start learning for free, before you’ve paid for anything.
- Download MySSI and create your free profile — a couple of minutes.
- Connect to Gili Air Divers using our centre link: create your profile with us.
- Start the first three chapters of your Open Water Diver course — on us, free, once you’re affiliated with the centre.
- Arrive, and we pick up exactly where you left off — no repetition, no wasted time.
That’s three chapters of theory done before your plane even takes off, and not a single euro committed.
You still get the real thing — with us
To be clear: the app replaces the classroom, not the course. Everything that makes learning to dive special still happens in person, with a real instructor and a maximum of four students per group:
- Your confined-water (pool) skills.
- Your open-water dives on our reefs — turtles on nearly every one.
- The briefings, the buddy checks, the quiet “you’ve got this” before your first descent.
Doing the theory online just clears the desk, so we can spend our time together in the water — and so you finish your certification a day sooner.
The bottom line
Do the reading at home, fresh. Arrive relaxed. Spend your Gili Air days diving, not studying — and walk away certified with time to spare for the sunsets.
Want a hand getting set up, or not sure which course to start? Message us and we’ll send you the centre link and unlock your free chapters before you arrive.