This is a shore dive over a reef with several drop offs starting from 9 m down to 21m. In this area the marine life is very good with a great chance of finding octopus, scorpion fish and morays. This dive is ideal for beginners or for a nice and shallow dive.

This wreck is a double-ended Ro Ro car passenger ferry, which was built in Denmark but used as a ferry crossing between the Maltese Islands . The Xlendi ferry is an artificial reef and when it was being sunk it landed upside down as it has hit one of the sharp drop offs just outside Xatt L-Ahmar. The ferry is standing on a sandy bottom at 42m with the hull upturned at 30m of depth. The dive is still very interesting and is suitable for experienced divers.

This is a rock coming up to the water surface and is just a little too far from Mgarr ix-Xini bay to reach from the shore. So it can only be dived from the boat. It offers a very good dive for divers of mixed ability as one can dive around it at various levels from 60m to a shallow reef on the northern side. On this dive site one can find barracuda, tuna, dentex, amberjacks and grouper as well as octopus and squat lobsters.

This is a shallow dive ideal for a check dive or introduction to cave diving as along the right-hand wall there are two small caves at around 14m of depth. Near the entrances of the caves there are several crevices which host delicate lacy bryozoans and light bulb tunicates. This bay is excellent for night dives as you find quite a few octopus, rasor fish, seahorses, and flying gurnards and stargazes.

This dive is a nice and shallow dive starting at around 7m deep and encountering huge boulders, gradually giving way to a steeply sloping wall covered in algae and marine life such as rainbow wrasse and long snout wrasse. It goes down to the depth of 26m. It is a dive where you meet some cuttle fish, soles, stingrays, stargazers and lizardfish. To the left of the entry point there is also an attractive cave with sandy bottom at around 14m of depth.

This is a dive starting with a swim across the bay to the tunnel, which are only 2m deep in Xlendi Bay . As you swim through the tunnel you can find red starfish and sponges, goatfish and numerous damselfish. This dive through the tunnel can be a follow up to Mgarr ix-Xini Bay as the tunnel is not too long and one can see the magnificent blue light at the other end. One can make this a shallow dive and turn back round the reef in the middle of the bay or make is a deeper dive by going further out into the deeper water. It can be dived at night as lights on the shore will serve as a point of reference. During the winter small schools of barracudas seek shelter at the entrance of the cave.

This is a huge rock in the middle of an entrance to a little cove. One can dive round the rock starting from the shore and snorkel to the rock. The best is to dive from the left side down to the drop off and round the rock coming up and back snorkelling if short of air. This area is full of crevices and small caves created by huge boulders leaning against each other. On the outside of the rock one can occasionally see amberjacks, barracudas and eagle rays.

This is a little reef coming out of the water surface just a little distance for the shore. It is preferable done as a boat dive. This is a very nice dive with a bottom of 7m between the rock and the shore and then a drop off to 40m on the other side of the rock. Groupers and tuna are common in this area, as are large shoals of Salema. The exit is by retracing your route but in much shallower water, all the way around the rock, or by following the largest fissure up to the shallow reef platform, where the dive boat can be located.

The access to this cave is a 2 m jump into the water (left from the salt pans in dwejra). This jump takes you directly on top of the cave, which has a huge opening. The bottom of the cave is sandy so be careful not to stir up the silt, as the visibility would be very limited. The walls of the cave are covered with coral and are very fragile so be very careful not to damage them with the diving equipment.

This s a very nice dive with an entry, which is a bit difficult but afterwards one will surely think that it is worth it. The water is 15m deep in the hole and you will pass the top of the window at 7m on your way down to the bottom. If looking out at the window the cave would be directly behind you. It is suggested to take a torch for this cave. From outside the cave one can either make a turn to the left and find his way round to Crack cave which starts like a chimney and comes out at 9m after which one can drop off to 30m and swim back to his left, and back up the same way into the Blue Hole. Another option is to go to the right out of the Cave and down to the base of the Azure Window round that area and come the same way back.

This inland sea is like a little pond connected to the outer sea through a tunnel through which little boat can pass. So when going through this tunnel, be careful if you have to surface. The entrance to this tunnel is only 3/4m deep but it increases to 16m and down to 25m at the end part of the tunnel. Outside of this tunnel one can either go to the left discovering the nice walls and drop offs (over 40m) and if experienced enough and is good on air can keep going up to the Azure Window and make the exit through the Blue Hole. An alternative dive is by going to the right just outside the tunnel. Take notice of the entry to the tunnel as when you are coming back there are many inlets similar to the entry.

It is situated in Ghasri Valley. At the mouth of this fjord like valley at the depth of 18m one will find the huge entrance to the Cathedral cave. This cave is like a domed vault and inside you will find boulders covered with colourful sponges and soft coral. One can surface in this cave and see different marine species of the walls and ceiling of the cave. The blue view to the outside of the cave is really breath taking.

The cave is just a few meters below the surface and its bottom is at 27m, this makes it one of the largest caves on the island. There is another cave further inside that is found after a 50 m swim you can surface inside the cave and cast your lights over the vaulted natural ceiling. As you go out from this cave to the open water one can admire the blue in the opening of the cave with the sun shining through from the outer reef. It is simple amazing!

This dive is quite unique at 200m off the shore. It takes up to 20min surface swim to reach but it is ideal to be dived by boat. The first, smaller archway starts at 20 m and directly beneath it is the larger of the two archways, stretching to the bottom at 45 m. On this dive site one can often see shoals of barracuda, grouper, with small blennies, nudibranchs.

This is a little bay on the north side of the island, in the village of Nadur . One can park right on the water's edge and can have a nice second dive or an introduction dive as the bay does not offer any great depths. In this bay you find extensive beds of Neptune grass amongst small sand patches, which are usually filled with grass detritus.

This is another dive site close to Dahlet Qorrot but one can get to it from another village called Qala. This is again another dive which has an average depth of 20m with a drop off which may be a little too far out.

This is a dive site for the beginners as it offers no real depth or spectacular bottom, but the easy entry and exit, plus sheltering from the north winds, makes this place a good second dive or even a night dive.

This is a wonderful boat dive of a reef on the Island of Comino . One can drop off to the bottom of the reef, at about 40m, and come up slowly finishing the dive through a tunnel that comes out at 6m on the reef. One can spot barracudas and morays on this dive site.

This dive is a very shallow dive, which is very popular in rough weather conditions as the lagoon is very well sheltered. The maximum depth is around 15m and maybe this is what makes it not as popular as others rather than what it offers to the divers. In the lagoon, silver breams and two-bar bream, which got used to being fed by both divers and tourists form the boats, might surround you expecting to be fed. In Crystal Lagoon there is a small tunnel which you can dive through and return around the left side of the reef.

This is a nice dive that can be done either as a first dive and even as a second dive as there is a drop off of 40m or one can go along the reef at shallower depths. On this dive you may find a lot of creatures hiding in the crevices formed by the many boulders on the reef. One may find species such as burrowing anemones and peacock worms, dentex, chromis, bream and small patches of posidonia.

One may find species such as burrowing anemones and peacock worms, dentex, chromis, bream and small patches of posidonia. This is another nice dive just out of Santa Maria Bay on Comino Island . It can be done as a first or second dive though it is not very deep (around 23m). It is quite interesting and there are some little caves to discover and take nice photos is these small caves and inlets.

This is a most wonderful dive site with a maximum depth of 15m. The boat drops the anchor in the little cove surrounded by various caves. The dive starts in the cove going in the direction of the cave, which has a tunnel and various swim through leading to the outside of the cove. Coming out of this cave, there is the magnificent blue colour of the water, which is a created by the effect of light and shade refracting through the water and rock formation. Back in the cove fish feeding is also very popular.

The Rozi was sunk in 1992 as an underwater attraction for tourists on submarine tours and for divers tugboat sits perfectly upright on a sandy bottom at 32m of depth. This wreck is now being colonized by different species of fish such as bream, amberjack and bonito.

The valley of Wied iz-Zurrieq is found on the south coast of Malta. It has a steep slope that emerges out of the valley and continues underwater. A small quay nearby leads the entry to this beatiful valley. Rocks have strewn the bottom, having been carried there over the centuries. A small cave is found at the right of the opening of the valley. The height to the bottom is over 30 metres. The underwater scenery comes to its full glory at night as crabs, which disappear during the day, come out.