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Small calm bay between Qui Si Sana beach and Sliema Pitch. Around 5-6 metres in depths goes down to a couple of sand patches that are around 10-14 metres.

A stunning reef full of canyons, swim troughs, tunnel and cave with a maximum depth of 20 meters. Can be done entirely by expert divers since is a long reef. Current can be challenging as well. Be aware of boats!

Shallow reef with valleys, canyons and gullies with some interesting rock formations and swimthrough tunnels for divers to explore, and also lots of small marine life. Coral Gardens reef is a great place for underwater photography.

Interest Cave & Reef Popularity High Depth 5+m (avg), 15+m (max) Qualification Beginner Shore access Easy Location 35.9151°N 14.5089°E (Exact) Fortizza Reef is a shore dive site located off the seaside promenade in Sliema, northeast coast of Malta. The shallow reef is full of caverns, tunnels, arches, overhangs, valleys, gullies and interesting rock formations for divers to explore. Fortizza Reef also has a surprising amount of marine life, and is an excellent place for underwater photography. This reef site is good for practising navigational skills, both with a compass and by underwater pilotage. Fortizza Reef is suitable dive site for all levels of divers, with maximum depth of the dive around 15 metres. Fortizza Reef and adjacent Coral Gardens are also known as Sliema House Reef.

Also known as X127 Lighter, Carolita, Interest: Wreck Popularity Low Depth 8m (avg), 25m (max) Qualification Beginner Shore access Easy Location 35.9009°N 14.5038°E (Exact) X127 is one of the many World War II wrecks around Malta. X127 was a British water lighter that was sunk in 1942. The wreck is in Marsamxett Harbour off Manoel Island at the start of Lazzaretto Creek. X127 is laying upright on a slope, her bow at 5 metres and stern at 22 metres, and can be dived from the shore. HMS X-127 was built in 1915 in England for British Royal Navy to be used in World War I. She was 24 m long landing craft with 7 m beam, converted into a water lighter and later again into a fuel lighter. X127 was sunk on 6th March 1942. The wreck was unidentified for years and was considered as an ordinary barge, known by divers with different names like Carolita or Coralita. In 2003 an underwater survey was carried out and the wreck was first identified as X-131 and few years later in 2006 confirmed to be X-127. X127 is one of the few shallow wreck dives in Malta, suitable for PADI OWD or equivalent. Other shallow wrecks are HMS Maori off Valletta, another WWII wreck also in Marsamxett Harbour, Tug 2 off Exiles in Sliema, Tug 10 and St. Michael off Zonqor Point in Marsaskala, and Patrol Boat P31 at Comino island.

The wreck lies from 6m down to 22m on a steep slope, the bottom is mainly silt and mud. there is quite a bit of boat traffic in the area so a DSMB is highly recommended when diving on this site. If you pass the wreck and go to around 21m and keep swimming for about 8-10min you can find the remanence of a old car