You're a qualified Open Water or Advanced Adventures Diver who is now ready to expand your diving knowledge, experience and skills by undertaking specialty diver training. Gozo Diving offers a number of Specialty Courses that will extend your diving capabilities and provide you with the capability to perform more advanced dives and access to more demanding dive sites. Specialties include:
computer nitrox
1 DAY
Nitrox diving opens up a new world of increased bottom time and safety if used to build conservatism into your dive plans. Nitrox is any mixture of nitrogen and oxygen including air but Nitrox usually means increased oxygen percentages in your diving gas. More correctly referred to as Enriched Air Nitrox (EAN), this increased oxygen reduces your nitrogen uptake under pressure and therefore extends the no-decompression limits (NDL) for a specific dive plan/depth.
EAN is sometimes thought to be a deep diving gas but this is incorrect. In fact, at partial pressures above 1.4 oxygen can become toxic and cause seizures which is very serious underwater. Detailed training is therefore required in the correct use of EAN.
The Computer Nitrox Specialty certification counts towards a single specialty rating to complete the SDI Advanced Diver Development program or SDI Master Scuba Diver Development program
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Deep Diver
2 DAYS
The Deep Specialty Course is a must for any diver wishing to explore a little more, go a little deeper, and learn the risks and benefits associated with deep diving. Many interesting sights lay just beyond open water diver training limits such as: beautiful wall dives, shipwrecks, and marine life that don’t come into the shallows.
The purpose of this course is to provide the necessary training to plan and execute dives that are beyond the depth range experienced during an Open Water Scuba Diver course, specifically beyond 18m and to a maximum depth of 40m. By the end of the course your knowledge, awareness, and comfort level with deep diving activities will have increased.
The Deep Specialty certification counts towards a single specialty rating to complete the SDI Advanced Diver Development program or SDI Master Scuba Diver Development program
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wreck diver
3 DAYS
Wreck diving can be one of the most exciting aspects of diving, however the hazards of wrecks and the overhead environment dictate special care and techniques for wreck diving. The Wreck Specialty Course will discuss the equipment and techniques commonly employed while wreck diving. This course will be taught as a limited penetration course, requiring three dives. Limited penetration is defined as a swim through or within the ambient light of the entry point.
Also, the Wreck Specialty certification counts towards a single specialty rating to complete the SDI Advanced Diver Development program or SDI Master Scuba Diver Development program.
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sidemount diver
4 DAYS
This course covers the fundamentals of sidemount diving including both classroom workshops and three days of in-water skills development.
WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR:
- Certified divers looking to learn sidemount diving
- Certified divers wanting to progress to technical diving
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
Open Water Scuba Diver or greater
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT TO LEARN:
- Sidemount equipment selection and setup
- Water entries
- Donning and doffing cylinders
- Buoyancy control and trim
- Tec diving propulsion techniques - frog kick, modified frog kick, helicopter turn, back kick
- Sidemount skills including, gas management, valve drills, out of air (donor/receiver)
- Cylinder removal in water, partial and full
- and much more...
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
The benefits of using sidemount including:
- Redundancy
- Better buoyancy control and trim
- More streamlined and comfortable in the water
- Acquiring a substantial tec oriented skill-set
COURSE EQUIPMENT
Gozo Diving can rent you complete sidemount systems for the Sidemount specialty course. This includes sidemount harness/BCD, sidemount regulators, cylinders and the hardware required to set up your sidemount system for the course. As the equipment is personally configured for you during your course, it will be available for purchase should you wish to take advantage of this.
Additional diving equipment is to be provided by the student or may be rented including; dive computer, compass, mask, fins, exposure protection, cutting devices, reels/spools and wet-notes/slate.
Contact us for course equipment requirements and recommendations before you purchase.
The Sidemount Specialty certification counts towards a single specialty rating to complete the SDI Advanced Diver Development program or SDI Master Scuba Diver Development program.
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Other specialties are available on request. Contact us to discuss.