Malta and Gozo has a relative large number of sea caves which has earned the islands a somewhat overinflated reputation as a cave diving destination. Most of these caves are in reality caverns or swim throughs and they are also very nice and relatively easy accessible for most divers. Among the most famous such dives [...]
Here I am continuing the review of different dive courses and the next in line is PADIs popular course – Advanced Open Water Diver. This is a very common course and most people who start with the Open Water course and keeps diving will do this course sooner rather than later.
This course is NOT a [...]
Malta has two famous plane wrecks. There are more but these are in general not publicly known and not offered as dive trips by commercial dive centres. There are rumours about a Mosquito with the pilots remains still in the cockpit and a Liberator has supposedly also been found but I know only one person [...]
This is a very underrated dive site in South Malta. Usually it is described as a good site for beginner etc but I think it is much more than that. What primarily interests me here are all the small details you can find such as nudibranchs, algae and neptunes lace. It is also a place [...]
Diving the wreck of an airplane is rather strange the first time. These are machines who were never intended to be under water – rather the opposite and yet they lie on the bottom under the sea. They are also considerably smaller than ship wrecks which makes the dives very different and much more focused [...]
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