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Newbie Diver Training Abroad

  • 25-01-2005 9:45am
    #1
    Mike_Hunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭


    Hi all, I dove once on the Great Barrier Reef and it was an experience I will never forget. Now I have the time and money to take up diving I have booked myself and partner on a PADI Open Water Diver course in Gozo at a dive school called 0-Grav (http://www.0-grav.com) has anybody heard anything about this dive school or what diving is like in general in Gozo. We are going end March.


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  • #2
    seadeuce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 277 ✭✭seadeuce


    Can't comment on that particular dive school, but Gozo has very good diving. Doing an OW course will not allow you, nor qualify you, to see the best sites. But it will be a good foundation to build on.

    Expect all dives to be from the shore, a 5 - 7mm suit should suffice in March.


    Enjoy!


    Seadeuce


  • #3
    Scubachick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭Scubachick


    Again, I don't know the school. But PADI, are a bit like the McDonald's of diving - you tend to get the same standards in all schools of equal PADI rating. Zero has a "resort" rating, so look up www.padi.com for an explaination of what this means.

    I did my PADI instructor training in Malta in February 2002. The diving is great - full of life, good visability and plenty of wrecks, reefs and caves to explore. The standard exposure suit was a 7mm wetsuit, which should be about the same as the ones you used on the GBR, Oz. As both Malta and Gozo are small most schools travel by road around the islands to a variety of sites. I did all shore dives during my months stay. This makes it a little tougher as you have to scramble over rocks with the gear - but then I am just a wossey girl :D !! Enjoy yourselves and come back and let us know what it's like! :cool:


  • #4
    donny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭donny


    Scubachick are you based in Kilkee by any chance? The reason I ask is I was over in Malta around then and the school I dived with were talking about some girl who had come or was about to come over to do the instructor course. If its you they were talking about I think they might even have given me your card.

    I was only there for a week but they *almost* managed to convince me to stay for a few months and work my way through divemaster and IDC.

    If it is you they were talking about its a small world. The centre was being run by a middle aged woman.. possibly Rita or something?

    What school did you do the IDC with?


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