Octopus Garden Diving Center

Also known as Sirens Harbour, Sirens Reef Interest Reef & Training Area Popularity Medium Depth 6m (avg), 18m (max) Qualification Beginner Shore access Easy Location 35.9523°N 14.4135°E (Exact) Sirens dive site is located in St. Paul’s Bay on the northern coast of Malta. Sirens has a shallow reef close to the shore with maximum depth of 12 metres suitable for all levels of divers. The varying rocky and sandy bottom is covered with boulders and seagrass, and the quay wall is home for lots of marine life. Abundant sea life such as moray eel, octopus, cuttlefish, scorpionfish and different wrasses and breams. Sirens reef is mostly used for practise and training area on try dives and diving courses, because of its shallow depth, calm and clear waters, and easy entry and exit from the shore. This is a great place for a refresher dive or practising underwater photography and navigation skills. Sirens is also a good night diving site. There are several entry/exit points in the area, either rocky slope with handrail, or ladders or stairs leading to one of the rock-cut pools, and swimming from the pool to the open sea through a channel in the rock. Beware of boat traffic if diving far away from the shore, there are small boats entering and leaving nearby harbour and bay.

Great dive site for training and try diving with easy entrance and exit. Small reef and a flat sandy bottom with a maximum depth of 8-10 metres and a statue.

DiveBase House Reef is our starting point for our adventures. Perfect for PADI Discover Scuba Diving Experiences here divers to be could move their first steps underwater. House of many octopus, cuttlefish, breams, starfishes, flying gurnard, morey eel and many other; this site is our favorite spot for Night Dives.

Popularity High Depth 5m (avg), 35m (max) Qualification Beginner Shore access Easy Location 35.9589°N 14.4250°E (Exact) Qawra Point is great place for swimming, snorkelling and sunbathing too. The area has parking, restaurants, cafes, and public toilets. Also worth visiting is nearby Malta Aquarium. Dive sites in Qawra Point Qawra Bay Qawra Bay is shallow dive site on south east side of Qawra Point. This sheltered bay is suitable for training and try dives. Seabed is sand and seagrass. Qawra Reef

MV Imperial Eagle, launched in 1945, is a 45 meter long deep wreck dive off the coast of Malta. It was a former ferry boat between Malta and Gozo. She was scuttled in 1999 as an artificial reef and an attraction for scuba divers in a marine conservation area.

Also known as Pippo Interest Wreck Popularity Low Depth 30m (avg), 36m (max) Qualification Experienced Shore access Boat only Location 35.9864°N 14.3950°E (Exact) MV Pippo is a wreck dive in Malta. Pippo was a small fishery workboat that sank in 2004. The wreck is located off Ahrax Point near Mellieha Bay. Pippo is 18 metres long and lies in an upright position at about 35 metres depth. This is a boat dive for experienced divers. The dive time is usually quite short as the wreck is small and the seabed around is just sand. Although small in size, MV Pippo is an interesting wreck. Unlike other 21st century wrecks in Malta, Pippo was not prepared for diving before scuttling. She is quite well preserved with some fishing industry equipment still attached, like tuna cages at the stern. Penetration is also possible but there is not much space for divers to move inside the wreck. Marine life on Pippo wreck includes small fish, crabs, shrimps and nudibranchs, and sometimes a big grouper is seen on the wreck. MV Pippo wreck history MV Pippo was built in 1976 in Malta by Vella Boat Yard of Marsa and Philip Formosa. Pippo was a concrete hulled workboat, 18 m in length. She was initially a research vessel used for surveys, then transformed into a cruise boat. Later on Pippo was sold to a local Azzopardi Fisheries company and converted into a fish cargo boat for Maltese tuna farming industry. One day in October 2004 MV Pippo was returning from Comino to Malta with a load of tuna, when she suddenly began to take on water and sank soon afterwards off Ahrax Point. Several attempts to salvage Pippo were unsuccessful, and now the wreck lies upright on sandy bottom at a depth of about 35 m.