| Important Note | | | All divers will have to complete a Registration form on arrival at the dive centre. This will include details of your diving qualification and a copy of your medical declaration. Every diver is required to sign a Self Declaration Medical form prior to starting any scuba diving activities. If the student has any of the medical conditions listed, then signed clearance from a doctor, valid within 12 months, will be required. We can also arrange for you to have your medical examination by a doctor in our diving school. Contact us for more information. | | | | |
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| TDI Courses in Malta | | | Starfish Diving School is being recognized as a TDI Facility. The full range of TDI courses from Basic Nitrox to Advanced Trimix are offered throughout the year, with most starting on a daily basis. Your training is with our staff of highly qualified, skilful and professional instructors in the comfort of fully-equipped classrooms. Training with TDI has provided divers with the opportunity to see such as deep wrecks around Malta, as HMS Southwold, Le Polynesien and HMS Stubborn P 238, Bristol Beaufighter, HMS Eddy and an exhilarating journey through silent canyons of Gozo, that's the incredible experience of Technical diving in the Mediterranean Sea. Starfish Diving School can provide all necessary technical gear and high safety standards, all the dive planning and support required as well as leading the dive and providing support divers as necessary.
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TDI Basic Nitrox |
| This one day entry level course is available to all divers who wish to explore the many advantages of Nitrox diving and begin to expand their horizons. The qualification allows the diver the use of Nitrox from 22% to 40%. The one day course covers the history of Nitrox, its advantages, and disadvantages, oxygen toxicity, equivalent air depths, maximum operating depths, nitrox computers and gas analysis. We provide manuals etc., no dives are involved unless you request them and all that is required by you is a calculator and some common sense. Prerequisites: PADI Open Water Diver or or equivalent, minimum 15 years of age.
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TDI Advanced Nitrox |
| This two day course, includes 4 nitrox dives (100 minutes bottom time) and covers all the topics in the nitrox course in much greater detail, with in-depth coverage of CNS & whole body oxygen toxicity and tracking, common mixing methods, best mix computations, decompression gas, accelerated decompression, dive planning, gas consumption calculations and equipment considerations, all culminating in certification to use 22% - 100% (oxygen) as a breathing gas. Prerequisites: Nitrox diver or equivalent, 25 logged dives, minimum 15 years of age.
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TDI Decompression Procedures |
| This three days course examines the theory, methods and procedures of planned decompression diving, including 4 dives. The objective of this course is to train divers how to plan and conduct a standard staged decompression dive not exceeding a maximum depth of 45 msw. The most common equipment requirements, gear set-up, and decompression techniques are presented, using nitrox or oxygen mixes within the divers existing qualification Prerequisites: Advanced open water diver or equivalent, 25 logged dives, minimum 18 years of age.
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TDI Extended Range |
| Again a comprehensive five day course, with 100 minutes bottom time required to qualify. The course concentrates on the proper techniques, equipment requirements, and hazards of deep air (55 metres maximum) utilising nitrox and oxygen for accelerated decompression. The course places a great deal of emphasis on personal and team limits, shut down procedures, gas switching, DSMB deployment and contingency planning etc. Prerequisites: Advanced Nitrox Diver and Decompression Procedures Diver or equivalent, 100 logged dives, of which 25 must be deeper than 30 msw. Minimum 18 years of age.
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TDI Advanced Trimix Diver |
| This five days course provides the training required to competently and safely utilize breathing gases containing helium for dives that require staged decompression, utilizing Nitrox and / or oxygen mixtures during decompression to a maximum depth of one hundred (100) metres. The objective of this course is to train divers in the benefits, hazards and proper procedures of utilizing custom oxygen / helium / nitrogen mixtures as breathing gases. Prerequisites: Extended Range Diver or equivalent, 100 logged dives, of which 25 must be deeper than 30 msw. Minimum 18 years of age.
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TDI Basic Gas Blender |
| This one day course teaches students the knowledge necessary for nitrox gas blending, a basic requirement if you are looking to blend nitrox in a club environment or if your looking for work in the diving industry. Prerequisites: Minimum 18 years of age
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TDI Advanced Gas Blender |
| This one day course trains students both as a nitrox blender and an advanced gas blender which includes use of nitrox and trimix and Haskel pumps etc. This half - one day course teaches students the knowledge necessary for nitrox gas blending, a basic requirement if you are looking to blend nitrox in a club environment or if your looking for work in the diving industry. Prerequisites: Minimum 18 years of age
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