Already certified and just want to dive? Come and explore Malta's wrecks and walls on open circuit, at your own pace. One unhurried dive a day, no clock-watching, and as long in the water as you like.
This is diving the way it should be. If you're a certified open-circuit technical or wreck diver and you just want to get in the water, that's exactly what we'll do — no course, no pressure, no agenda beyond a great day's diving.
I keep it simple: normally one dive a day. One proper dive, done well, without rushing. We're not trying to cram in numbers — we plan it properly, dive it properly, and come up when we're ready, not when a schedule says so. If you want to stay down for a long dive, I'm all for it — the longer I'm in the water, and frankly the further away my phone is, the happier I am. Long, relaxed dives are my favourite thing in the world, so if that's what you're after, you're speaking my language.
How we use the dive is up to you. Want to work on some skills along the way — trim, buoyancy, valve drills, SMB deployment, tightening up your configuration? Brilliant, let's do it. Want to just enjoy a long, quiet swim through a wreck with no homework at all? Equally brilliant. It's your dive — I'm here to make it a good one, brief it properly, and dive it alongside you as part of the team.
Malta packs an extraordinary amount into a small area — wrecks, walls, caverns and reefs, most within a short boat ride or a shore stroll. A quick run-down of some of the favourites, by the kind of diving you're certified for:
I'll always tailor the day to your certification, your gas, and what you actually want to see. Tell me the dives on your list and I'll build the trip around them.
Worth knowing: some of the most fun diving here is best on a DPV (a diver propulsion vehicle, or scooter). Linking all four of Gozo's wrecks — the MV Hephaestus, Cominoland, MV Karwela and MV Xlendi — together in a single dive, or covering Malta's bigger sites without finning your gas away — a scooter just makes it more enjoyable. Not DPV certified? No worries at all — it's a light, genuinely fun DPV course we can usually sort on day one, and it won't take anything away from the rest of your diving.
Everything runs through Dive Systems in Sliema, with one of Malta's most capable fill stations — air, nitrox, and accurate, clean trimix and helium for the deeper objectives — plus a boat licensed for the historic wrecks. Shore dives, boat dives, single days or a full week: just tell me what you're after.
Coming on a rebreather instead? I dive CCR too — head over to CCR Guided Dives. This page is for open-circuit divers.