If you’re into wreck diving in warm, clear water, it’s a fantastic choice, easily accessible from anywhere in Europe. But the technical diving in Malta is just as impressive, with a variety of wrecks available just beyond recreational depths.
Because so many wrecks dot the Maltese coast at varying depths, it’s perfect for technical fun dives and courses at all levels. For those taking a foundation tech course, there are plenty of shallow dive sites for practicing new skills. On decompression courses, wrecks such as the MV Karwela, with its famous staircase, offer something to explore in the (35 to 45 m) range as you rack up some deco before heading back to a shallow reef on your decompression stops.
For deeper courses, such as open-circuit trimix or mixed-gas rebreather, Malta offers some fantastic and historically important deep wrecks. If you are already trimix certified, these are exactly the type of dive sites that made you want to get the qualification in the first place. We covered the shallower wrecks, such as the Um El Faroud, in our previous article, so here we’ll focus on the deeper wrecks each of them a highlight of technical diving in Malta.