Diving in St Julian's
7 dive sites around St Julian's: 3 wrecks (2 of them aircraft), 1 cave and 3 reefs. The stretch takes in San Ġiljan, Paceville, St George's Bay, Dragonara, Balluta and Spinola.
Depths run from 10 to 70 m. 1 suit Open Water divers and 3 are technical dives. 3 are shore dives and 4 need a boat.
Most of these sites close when the wind or swell comes from the N, NE, E, SE and NW.
Best right now
- Fairey Swordfish13Stay dry
- Anadrian0Stay dry
- Bristol Beaufighter0Stay dry
Scores blend the wave, swell and wind forecasts for each site against the directions it is open to. Check the site page before you go.
Dive sites around St Julian's
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Anadrian
St Julian's, Malta
A forty metre working dredger sunk in 1999 and now sitting upright on sand at around 65 metres off the north east coast, squarely in trimix country. Short bottom time, long ceiling, and a boxy industrial hull that photographs beautifully in the blue.
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Bristol Beaufighter
St Julian's, Malta
A twin engine RAF heavy fighter lying upside down on clean sand at 38 m, a short boat hop off St Julian's. Small, tidy and strangely moving, and over in one no stop bounce.
Digital RenderFairey Swordfish
St Julian's, Malta
A Second World War biplane torpedo bomber sitting on sand at around 70 m off Sliema, its fabric long gone but the frame, engine and three-blade propeller still in place. Trimix, a boat and a Heritage Malta permit.
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Merkanti Reef
St Julian's, Malta
A twin ridge of reef breaking almost to the surface off St. Julian's, riddled with overhangs and crevices, divable shallow all day or reached by boat from the hotel strip.
Digital RenderDragonara Point
St Julian's, Malta
The rocky nose of the St Julian's headland, under the casino and the Westin, listed at 15 m average and 25 m maximum and dived by almost nobody. Everything around it is documented; the point itself is a blank.
Digital RenderĠebel ġol-Baħar
St Julian's, Malta
A cluster of big boulders on an offshore plateau about 2 km off St Julian's, claimed in 1999 as a sunken megalithic temple and dismissed by archaeologists ever since. Boat only, top of the rocks at 19 m.
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Harq Hamiem Cave
St Julian's, Malta
Malta's only known fully submerged terrestrial cavern, reached by a staircase rather than a boat, with two chambers stacked on top of each other and a floor that drops past fifty metres. Freshwater at the top, seawater at the bottom, and a shrimp that lives nowhere else.