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 | | With our diving partners on the island we can offer our clients complete packages including diving. May it be a course for beginners, a specialty course or dive packages accompanied or unaccompanied.
The school is Gozo's largest PADI 5 Star IDC training facility and is situated in the picturesque fishing village of Xlendi Bay. The center offers a wide range of PADI scuba diving courses, from open water all the way through to instructor development courses and courses in association with IAHD (International Association of Handicapped Divers) and HSA (Handicapped Scuba Association). |
The classrooms are equipped with full audio/visual training aids and an indoor pool for confined water training.
The service shop offers a wide selection of international brands of diving equipment, air fills, equipment service and repairs, plus a complete rental department. | |  |
Diving Packages
Discover Scuba Introduction Dives For those beginners who are unsure about taking the open water course. Indoor pool and open water training.
PADI Open Water Course This course is the first step within the PADI training program. It consists of classroom sessions and pool/ confined water training under the supervision of a fully qualified diving instructor. This will be followed by a further four open water dives where students will be required to perform all the skills that they have learnt in confined water. Course duration is 4./5 days depending on the number of students.
Diving equipment is included in the course.
Manual and medical NOT included.
PADI Advanced Open Water Course
This is the next step in the PADI training program. It consists of a selection of five dives with the two core dives being deep dive, and navigation dive.
Students may choose anything from a wreck dive, night dive, etc. to further their diving equipment.
Course duration: 2/3 days
Diving equipment is included in course
Manual and medical NOT included.
Boat dives are NOT included.
Course includes all tuition, use of indoor pool, open water training, transport to and from dive sites, certification costs unless otherwise stated and use of diving equipment .
Open all year round and PADI courses leading to leadership level can be arranged at any time as well as internship programs for dive masters / instructors searching for job experience including retail, technical training and boat handling. Over 50 different courses are being offered including Medical First Aid and DAN O2. Please inquire for a training program adapted to your needs and wishes.
Combination PADI Open water and advanced open water 10 dives - 9 days.
PADI Advanced Plus A full 7 days - 9 dives which include 3 core dives, 6 of the selective dives, medic first aid course.
PADI Medic First Aid Course Two sessions of 4 hours.
PADI Rescue Diver Course Indoor pool training and 6 open water dives. Instruction in the skills of knowledge on how to carry out diver rescue, life saving techniques and accident management.
PADI Divemaster 2 intensive weeks - 15 dives. Student will serve as all assistant to an instructor a minimum of ten open water sessions. Theory and personal water skills are developed to leadership levels to help create the awareness needed to care for and to control the student and certified divers, both in water and top side.
Professional membership with PADI is extra. | |  |
PADI Assistant Instructor 2 weeks minimum, Qualified Divemasters have the opportunity to actually practice teaching the whole range of diving skills and theory under the direct supervision of one of our instructors. Professional membership with PADI is extra.
Speciality Courses Boat Diver - 2 dives
Deep Diver - 4 dives
Underwater Navigator - 3 dives
Search and Recovery - 4 dives
Equipment Specialist - 2x4hr. sessions
Night Diver - 3 dives
Wreck Diver - 4 dives
Multi Level Diver - 2 dives
Underwater Naturalist - 2 dives
Drysuit Diver - 2 dives
Underwater Photography - 4 dives
This course includes lectures on Basic, Macro and wide angle photography. Cameras, strobes and various lenses are provided. Film and developing are not included.
Accompanied Diving 6 and 10 accompanied shore dive packs.
This pack is perfect for divers who have a minimum qualification of open water diver or CMAS One star or its equivalent. Accompanied dives are conducted twice daily, one in the morning and one in the afternoon to different sites, which are selected by our highly qualified instructors to accommodate divers' qualifications and experience level. Diving groups are small and grouped together according to each individual's experience level.
Special dives are organized upon clients request ie. underwater photography, handicapped divers etc.
The Price of dive packs includes guide, use of cylinders, weights belt, transport by land to and from dive site. Boat diving is extra and is organized every day either on our 20ft. semi-rigid boat or a full day excursion around the island. Night Dives are organized upon request at an extra minimal cost.
Unaccompanied Divnig 6 and 12 day unaccompanied dive packs.
These packs are designed for divers who have a minimum of PADI Advanced Open Water, CMAS 2 star or equivalent rating with enough diving experience to dive independently. The cost of the packs includes: one cylinder per person, weights and belt and unlimited airfills.
Divers diving unaccompanied MUST have a local government permit (C - card). To apply for a C - card one must have: Proof of qualification 2 Star Advanced diver or equivalent.
2 passport sized photos.
Recent medical (either one brought with clients or done locally.) Filled in Application forms, which may be collected from the School. A fee to be paid on submitting application. C-card not included in unaccompanied dive packs prices.
Groups planning on doing unaccompanied diving either for fun or for training purposes where there are divers who do not meet the necessary qualification requirements MUST have an instructor leading their dives. For an instructor's Malta dive permit, he must have the medical conducted in Gozo / Malta by the diving physician.
All documents should be supplied on arrival at the School to avoid delays or disappointments.
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