Scuba Kings Gozo, Malta

This course does not have any prerequisites and is even open to snorkellers. My hobby is underwater digital photography and this website is constructed from all my own photos and from photo’s taken on this course by my students. A great deal of fun this teaches you the basics of taking underwater pictures. The course also includes a free cd with you digital pictures on.

Although this course does not include the dives you are more than welcome to do a nitrox dive under the supervision of our instructor as part of the guided dives, at an extra cost of €12 per dive. The prerequisite of this course is that you are over 15 and be at least PADI Open Water or equivalent. This course teaches recreational divers to use enriched air “nitrox” for no stop recreational diving. The course teaches you to use enriched air with 22% to 40% oxygen, with emphasis on enriched air with 32% and 36% oxygen. Although not necessarily any safer to dive with than air, nitrox leaves you feeling less tiered after a dive and extends no-decompression times in depths above 30 meters.

To attend this course on Gozo you must be at least PADI advanced with the deep speciality or equivalent. We offer a special 10% reduction on the combined course price, for a combined deep and wreck speciality package. The course includes the planning, organisation, procedures, techniques, problems and hazards of wreck diving. The course also covers the preparation of lights, air supplies, special equipment, penetration reels and lines. We also cover limited-visibility diving techniques and emergency procedures. A fantastic course to do in Gozo as we have 3 wrecks on the island. We also visit the wreck of the P31,P29, tugboat Rozi and Popeye's Barge (The Scots Craig) on our boat dives, which are an extra 15euros a dive. The penetration dives are taught at an instructor to student ratio of no more than 1:2.

A prerequisite of this course is to be PADI advanced or equivalent. This course qualifies you to dive to a maximum depth of 40 meters, very useful for Gozo and getting to see things that would be outside of the range of advanced divers. The course covers the planning, organisation, procedures, problems and hazards of deep diving. We cover risk factors and complete a decompression table review. Safety stops, emergency decompression procedures, special equipment, decent lines and buoyancy considerations are also covered.

The first course that qualifies you to be a professional diver! If you have desire to go around the world teaching diving, well this is the first step. The course covers all aspects of how to become an asset to any teaching instructor and the class. You will also get an in depth knowledge of the physics, physiology, equipment, business, supervision and risk management of diving activities. A lot of this will be first hand by way of supervising student classes and role playing. You will become a role model and feel how good it is to help somebody get over their particular fear and see them go on to be a diver. There is a great deal of responsibility, but upon completion you will relish the challenge and can go on to become an Assistant Instructor or even an Instructor.. The world is your oyster!

A course that can be undertaken by anybody, you do not have to be a diver for this one! Some people take this course for their work place and some just take the course for simple peace of mind. Watching a video and working through the course booklet the student gets to grips with the basics of First Aid and CPR. The course is a prerequisite of the rescue course.

"Wow that was a hard course, but I loved it" Celine Ravier, Rescue Diver 2000. This is one of the common comments we get from students completing this course. Possibly one of the most rewarding courses. It not only builds confidence in yourself, it shows you how to instill confidence in others and to help them at the time they really need somebody who knows what they are doing. The course not only trains you on how to cope with a situation, it shows you how to avoid them. Consisting of 13 training areas that cover the majority of situations you may face in the open water, the course concludes with 2 difference scenarios. The training is a fun experience, underlined with the serious nature of what you are learning. Before completion you will also pass a Emergency First Response course and have 20 logged dives, completing the whole experience and providing divers with the ability to look at the safety of others as well as themselves.

The same format as the Adventure Diver but with 5 dives in specific areas. Within the 5 dives however, there has to be 1 Deep dive and 1 Navigation dive (If they were not completed during the Adventure Diver course). The choices we offer are photo, multilevel/ computers, naturalist, peak performance bouyancy (PPB), night (extra 5 euros for torch hire), wreck (has to be by boat diving the P31 ,Rozie or P29 extra 15euros for the boat trip). All dives are reinforced with a manual and Knowledge development quizzes. An eye opener of a course, especially the navigation dive! This course makes sure you can go out AND come back to the same area, as well as dive to depth (Up to 30m!) safely. The completion of the course allows you to dive to 30 meters and allows you to dive unsupervised in Malta. A great course to do here as apart from the navigation (and PPB if you choose that option) the dives can be done along with the guided dives, so you get to see the best sites on the Island as well as gaining the qualification. Do not forget that the price includes the equipment hire!

As you already have the knowledge from the Open Water course, let's explore the other avenues of diving and try some different areas with which you may not be familiar. The course consists of 3 dives in 3 different areas of diving. You get to choose in which area you would like to learn more e.g. Boat diving, Wreck diver, Deep diver, Naturalist diver, Night diver, Multilevel diver etc. Add further knowledge learnt through the manual and it's a fantastic insight into the diversity of diving.

Here it is, the course that upon teaches you everything you need to take up diving as a hobby. A comprehensive course aimed at providing a safe diver capable of planing and enjoying diving , as well as looking after equipment and the underwater environment. The course consists of the student reading the Open Water manual and following it up with videos, knowledge development questionnaires and quizzes, corresponding to the 5 sections in the manual. Following this there is an exam (Relax, it's multiple choice!). The practical development begins with confined water sessions (shallow water training of skills), a 300 m swim and a 10 min tread water. On completion of the above you get to put into practice all you have learned during the 4 Open Water dives. The course is a rewarding one, giving an in depth knowledge of SCUBA diving and the safety to go out and explore in other parts of the world qualifying you to dive to a depth of 18 meters.

After completing all of the theory, quizzes, exam and pool sessions of the open water elsewhere, you can now bring all of this knowledge, along with the referral paper work completed by your instructor, to our dive centre. The Open Water dives are the assessment dives of the course where you have to be able to demonstrate mastery of the skills you learned in the confined water. If you have not dived in a while or do not feel that you have complete mastery it would be best to book a scuba review (40euros) prior to the start of the referral, because we are not allowed to re demonstrate skills to you on the assessment dives.

Taking only 2 days, this course proves popular to clients with little time on their holiday. PADI's Scuba Diver course goes further in depth, into the intricacies of the sport of diving. You will complete 3 pool sessions (a series of skills performed in shallow water), 3 Theory sessions, videos and Knowledge Developments. A swim, a tread water and of course 2 actual Open Water dives, where you put all you have learned into practice. On completion you will be awarded a certification recognized around the world, to be able to dive to 12m under the supervision of an Instructor or Divemaster. You can then upgrade to Open Water Diver at any PADI dive center.

This course is the first part of the PADI Scuba diver or Open Water course and gives you the basic theory and skills of scuba diving. On this course you will still get the lecture with a video followed by a quick multiple choice test to make sure everyone has understood. There is then a briefing on the skills and you will then complete 4 basic skills in shallow water prior to the dive, where you can still stand up. Following the skills, off we go for a dive to a max of 12m. On completion of this course, if you decide that you want to carry on to Scuba Diver or Open Water with us on this holiday, we will deduct the cost of the DSD from those courses. If you then just want to do fun dives no problem they are just 35euros with full equipment and free transport to the dive sites.

Your first introduction to the underwater realm! The course involves a quick lecture on just the basics on how to make it fun and safe. This will typically last about half an hour. Following this we will get you "kitted-up," getting the scuba gear that fits you. We build things up in very small steps so you start off in shallow water where you can still stand up, then just putting your face in the water, then kneeling down in shallow water and then swimming in shallow water. Once this is all done, we're off to the water to experience the weightlessness under water, look at the beautiful underwater scenery up to a maximum depth of 6 meters! It's an experience NOBODY ever forgets! We also offer to do a HD video of your experience for an extra 10euros, or for groups of 4 or more it is free..