FORMATION NIVEAU 4

The Niveau 4 is the French certification that allows supervising certified divers to 40 metres and opens access to monitorship — essentially the gateway to professional instructing under the French system. CIP offers tailored preparation for the final exam, adapted to each candidate's starting point.

The course is described as sur-mesure: CIP doesn't run it on a fixed calendar but builds it around the individual diver, which matters for a qualification that requires demonstrating a range of skills at a specific standard. The fifty-site rotation in the Calanques gives the training environment variety — walls, wrecks, grottos and open water all within reach from Pointe Rouge.

The team running the program includes three E4 instructors (Orsane Vanrell who manages the center, Morgane, and Fabien) as well as Julien at E3 and Alex holding E4 alongside professional diver status. The depth of qualification in the team means the candidate is trained by people who actually use the prerogatives of the levels above them, not just instructors who passed the exam themselves and stopped.

Candidates should enter the course already holding Niveau 3 with solid experience. The center explicitly describes the Niveau 4 as suitable for «plongeurs niveau 3 aguerris» — certified N3 divers who are practiced, not just recently qualified.