Sunken ships, aeroplanes, and even cars are fascinating to explore and usually teem with aquatic life. Each wreck dive offers a chance for a new discovery. What better place in the world than Malta to complete your PADI Wreck Diver Course.
PADI Wreck Diver Course Overview
Each wreck dive offers a chance for discovery.
Whether purpose-sunk as an artificial reef for scuba divers, or lost as the result of an accident, wrecks are fascinating windows to the past. Sunken ships, aeroplanes, and even cars are fascinating to explore and usually teem with aquatic life.
Each wreck dive offers a chance for discovery, potentially unlocking a mystery or spying something others have missed.
The PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course is popular because it offers rewarding adventures while observing responsible wreck diving practices.
If you’re at least 15 years old and have earned a PADI Adventure Diver certification or higher, you can enrol in the Wreck Diver Specialty course.
To complete the academic studies we estimate 6 hours of independent study.
To complete the 4 Open Water Dives will take you two days. A full day is 8 hours on average.
You’ll need your standard scuba equipment, plus a dive light to see into the wreck, a slate and underwater compass for mapping and navigation, and a line and reel for practising wreck penetration. All required equipment for your course including a dive computer is supplied by ABC Diving.
The total, fully inclusive cost of the PADI Wreck Diver Course starts at €325.00 with our ‘Standard’ option. Our ‘Bespoke’ option is €780.00.
This includes:
– All dive equipment needed for the completion of your course
– PADI educational materials
– Certification cost
PADI Wreck diver Course - THE LEARNING PATH
An insight into dive 1:
- Swim on the outside of a wreck, maintaining proper buoyancy control, and identifying and avoiding potential hazards, under the direct supervision of a Teaching Status PADI Instructor.
- Navigate on a wreck so that the ascent point can be located without surfacing, with the assistance of the instructor.
- Maintain neutral buoyancy and body position that avoids the bottom.
An insight into dive 2:
- Swim along the outside of a wreck, in a buddy team, identifying and avoiding potential hazards.
- With a buddy, map a wreck (or portion of a wreck), determining approximate size and marking points of interest.
- Survey a wreck for a penetration dive and evaluate possible entrances.
- Navigate on a wreck, returning to the ascent point without surfacing.
An insight into dive 3:
- Demonstrate the deployment and retrieval of a penetration line, for practice, on the outside of a wreck, while working in buddy teams.
- Swim along the deployed penetration line so as to maintain contact with the line without kicking up silt and holding on to a dive light.
- Navigate on a wreck so as to locate the ascent point without surfacing.
An insight into dive 4:
- Plan and perform an actual wreck penetration under the direct supervision of a Teaching status PADI Instructor:
- Determining air supply and penetration limits.
- Swimming without causing excessive silt disturbance.
- Maintaining contact with the line.
- Using a dive light while following a penetration line.
- Navigate on a wreck so as to locate the ascent point without surfacing.
- Descent – A detailed look into your body position during the first stages of descent.
- Buddies execute a five-point descent. You should be able to descend without kicking – just by exhaling. Concentrate on descending slowly and neutralising your buoyancy as needed during descent.
- Bubble check and acclimatisation below the surface (3-6 metres/10-20 feet recommended).
- Adjust for neutral buoyancy at depth determined by instructor.
- Demonstrate efficient fin kicks, using long, slow strokes and gliding after each kick.
- An introduction to the frog kick and reverse frog kick.
- Manoeuvre close to a nonliving portion of the bottom (rock, sand, etc.) without touching it and then back away using neutral buoyancy with hand or fin sculling.
The philosophy of this course is to focus on fun, safe wreck diving. This means to introduce student divers to wreck diving law, to discuss the hazards to avoid while wreck diving, to talk about how to research wrecks, to establish the basics of wreck diving equipment, the fundamentals of penetrating a wreck, how to interact responsibly with the aquatic life you’ll see while wreck diving and protect the wreck for future dives.
how the booking Process works
It's As Easy As ABC!
1. Choose your course option
Click ‘Request to book’ button and complete the booking request form. Only 1 form per group is required.
2. Booking approval
Within 3 working hours, your booking request will either be approved or an alternate date suggested.
3. Pack your towel!
Once the booking is approved, a payment request is sent to you. Upon payment, your booking is confirmed.
Choose your course option
Bespoke or Standard?
Bespoke
€780
- Private Tuition
- Private Transfer Service From Anywhere in Malta
- 5 Open Water Dives
- 2 Day Dive Course
- PADI Wreck Diver Certification
- PADI Educational Materials
- Premium Dive Equipment Supplied
- You Choose the Days
- Student Dive Insurance Included
- Descent Workshop
- Buoyancy Workshop
- Efficient Finning Workshop
Standard
€325
- Class size up to 4
- Daily pick up/drop off service From Transport Zone*
- 4 Open Water Dives
- 2 Day Dive Course
- PADI Wreck Diver Certification
- PADI Educational Materials
- Premium Dive Equipment Supplied
- You Choose the Days
- No Student Dive Insurance Included
- No Descent Workshop
- No Buoyancy Workshop
- No Efficient Finning Workshop
*View Transport Zone
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