Alan Whitehead
Rebreather SpecialistTechnical instructor at TechWise in St Julian's, teaching the open-circuit decompression ladder that most of Malta's technical diving consists of — Tec45, Tec50 and trimix on the island's WWII and civilian wrecks — as well as JJ-CCR courses. His TDI ratings run to Instructor Trainer on Advanced Trimix, Extended Range, Helitrox, Air Diluent CCR and Air Diluent CCR Decompression Procedures, plus Advanced Gas Blending, Nitrox Gas Blending and O2 Service Technician at Instructor Trainer level, with diver ratings through Advanced Mixed Gas CCR, Mixed Gas CCR, Advanced Wreck and Sidemount. Students describe a common-sense approach with no shortcuts, everything traced back to why it matters on the dive, and feedback delivered straight.
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Whitehead is the technical instructor behind Techwise in St Julian's, and the reviews that name him are about Malta's own kind of technical diving: staged decompression on the wrecks. Students describe one-to-one training blocks with him on open circuit and on the JJ CCR. The most detailed account, from a JJ CCR student, gets at what people rate him for — a "common sense" approach with no shortcuts, everything traced back to why it matters on the dive, and feedback delivered straight: "what he sees, he addresses". Three reviewers credit his site knowledge rather than just his teaching, one noting that even on guided wreck dives he runs routes other operations do not. The surrounding base is part of the picture in almost every review — a meticulously kept compressor room with trimix available without fuss — and prior-to-arrival arrangements go through him and Vivienne.
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