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Welcome to Discover Malta Diving
Here you'll find information about diving on Malta & Gozo
During the winter period, we have updated our dive sites chapter with more sites around the Maltese Islands. So why don’t you check whether you find some new, interesting sites? You’ll see why you never have to dive the same site twice!
Recently Malta created 2 more artificial reefs by scuttling the 50m long MV Karwela and 34m long MV Cominoland. The wrecks were scuttled in Ix Xatt L-Ahmar , which is in the Gozo Channel, close to Comino.
Discover the Future! More upcoming wrecks, waiting to be scuttled are listed here.available.
Malta gained 2 more wrecks, which will start serving as artificial reefs.
MV Cominoland was an old ferry of 35 meter by 9 meter. She got company from MV Karwela. With its length of about 50 meter, she is a bit bigger but both vessels are worth an in-depth visit!
As both wrecks are scuttled close to shore, you can dive these ships both from land as by boat. The maximum depth is around 40 meter.
The ships were sunk in the Gozo channel between Malta & Gozo. The area is called
Ix-Xatt L’Ahmar in Gozo (GPS 36.01.03.02N & 14.17.13.79E) where the previous scuttling of the MV “Xlendi” also took place.
With the scuttling of these vessels, Gozo finally obtained some suitable wrecks for the diving tourist and a site, which is sheltered from strong Western & Northern winds.
Other wrecks, waiting to be scuttled in Malta, can be seen here.
