My Home · Sliema, Malta
Built on Dive Systems
Malta's diving home since 1978
Malta's diving home since 1978
Diving The Dream is one part of something much bigger — a centre and a team I'm genuinely proud to be part of.
Every course I run, every wreck I take a team to, every cylinder of trimix breathed at depth — it all runs on Dive Systems. I'm proud to work for a local company with a genuinely deep history in Maltese diving, and lucky to be trusted to help them continue building an already strong technical programme — at an operation that's been at the water's edge in Sliema since 1978.
Technical diving is never a solo effort. Not underwater, and not on the surface either. The boat, the gas, the compressors, the kit room, the team who know these waters better than anyone — that's the weight being carried behind every dive. The instruction is only my part of it — everything that makes it possible is carried by the whole team.
Dive Systems isn't a pop-up operation. It's a family-run dive centre established in 1978 — one of the longest-established and most reputable in the Maltese islands, and the largest dive facility in Malta. Founding members of the Malta Professional Diving Schools Association, a TDI Dive Centre, and an SSI centre with decades of local knowledge built into every briefing.
For a technical diver choosing a base in Malta, that history matters. It means infrastructure that actually supports the diving — not a compressor in a back room, but a full technical operation. It means a team who've dived these wrecks for decades. And it means the kind of safety culture and reliability that only comes from forty-plus years of doing it properly.
SIMO — our home on the water, licensed for Malta's historic wrecks.
Here's the part that matters most for technical diving in Malta: SIMO is licensed to dive Malta's protected historic wrecks. That licence is rare, and it's the difference between reading about the deep wrecks and actually diving them.
It's the licence that puts HMS Southwold, Le Polynesien, the deep aircraft and the German naval wrecks within reach — the exact sites my Trimix, Advanced Trimix and CCR courses are built around. Without a permitted boat, those dives simply don't happen. With SIMO, they do.
Technical diving lives and dies on gas. You can have the best training in the world, but if you can't get accurate, clean trimix when you need it, the diving doesn't happen. Dive Systems runs one of the most capable fill stations in Malta — and it's a genuine asset, not an afterthought.
A dive centre is only as good as its people, and this is where Dive Systems genuinely stands apart. Decades of combined experience, multilingual instruction, and a depth of in-house knowledge that covers SSI, PADI and TDI — plus the kind of rebreather expertise that's hard to find anywhere.
At the helm of Dive Systems is Simon — Maltese, fluent in English, Maltese, Italian and French, and an SSI Extended Range Instructor Trainer. Four decades of family history in Maltese diving sit behind the operation he runs, and his standards are the reason the centre has the reputation it does. It's a privilege to deliver technical training under that banner.
Behind Simon is a full team of in-house instructors and crew — recreational and technical, across multiple agencies and languages. Whatever you're diving, whatever you're learning, there's someone here who knows it inside out.
I'm part of an already strong technical diving and teaching team, working alongside some amazing instructors who between them have every corner of the technical diving world covered. My contribution is the TDI pathway — trimix, decompression procedures, advanced wreck, CCR, sidemount, DPV — delivered on the infrastructure Dive Systems has spent forty years building.
For years, people told me to go and do my own thing. The truth is, I never wanted to do it alone. Technical diving is built on teams — underwater and on the surface — and the best teaching happens where experienced instructors share ideas, check each other's thinking, and push each other's standards up. That's exactly what this team does, every day.
Simon and Dive Systems understand that completely. Here, an instructor who pushes themselves makes the whole operation stronger — new ideas, new divers, new energy — and the centre backs them all the way. Happy staff who push each other raise the standard of everything around them.
That's why Diving The Dream exists — not in spite of the centre I work for, but because of it. Every diver I train stands on a forty-year foundation, learns within a team that covers every corner of the sport, and is backed by everything Dive Systems has built. I genuinely don't take that for granted.
If you want to train technical diving in Malta on a boat that can actually reach the wrecks, with gas you can trust and a team that's been doing this since 1978 — this is the place, and I'd be glad to take you through it.
Visit Dive Systems in Sliema, or get in touch to talk technical training. Whether it's your first step into tech or a bucket-list trimix wreck, it starts here.