There's many good reasons for visiting Malta, and one of the best known activities for families in Malta is the great scuba diving.  The calm, unpolluted waters allow divers to take in the marine life, a wide variety of flora and flauna, cliffs, caves, arches, rocks, sand, colours, shipwrecks and more.  Diving is more than a recreational pastime in Malta.

The destinations are famous and widely visited by tourists from around the world, and is a welcome specialist holiday area for the island.  Malta offers numerous beach diving excursions that explore everything from natural underwater vegetation to WW2 shipwrecks. Malta was an important location during the Second World War and evidence of the battles surrounding the island are best found under the surface in the Mediterranean. The HMS Maori is open for diving and remembrance of WWII episode. Malta's main island is one of the rare destinations that provides scuba diving throughout the entire island.   

The Maltese islands are primarily composed of an ancient limestone reef situation on top of an extinct submarine volcanic plateau, which extends to and includes the island of Sicily to the north. The limestone is ridled with underground caves and caverns and features some of the world's most specular natural underwater arches.

One creature that it is a delight to find is the seahorse.  This exotically shaped relative of the pipefish has incredible camouflage colours.
The shoreline is embedded with sharp ridged ironstone reef.  Much of it is ancient fossilized seabed, with the remains of sand dollars, molluscs and crinoids in plain view. 

In the north of the island, the shoreline then extends underwater to form gentle rolling rocky medows covered in many species of marine algae.

In the southwest of Gozo and Malta, towering cliffs extend an equal distance underwater, which makes diving akin to diving the wall or drop-off of more tropical oceans.
 

Nearly 50 miles off the coast of Sicily, Malta is the perfect place for underwater dives and was voted the third best diving destination. Many tourists are amazed to learn the Inland Sea was one of Jacques Cousteau's 'Top 10' diving locations.  According to Diver Magazine, only Egypt and the Maldives rate higher than Malta when it comes to diving locations. Visitors often argue that Malta is better for diving, however, because it has better visibility.

You will find a scuba diving company regardless of what port you visit. The diving accommodations can be found throughout in all the islands of the Maltese archipelago. The locals offer diving programmes for all skill levels. Dive sites with a gradual slope are best for beginners, while deeper dives sites require more experience and training. The really adventurous can choose a nighttime dive for a unique view of marine life.

One of the most popular diving destinations in Gozo, Malta's sister island is known as the Azzure Window.   The Azzure window, known locally as It-Tieqa tad-Dwejra together with Dwejra as a whole is an area of considerable scientific and cultural importance, particularly rich in its ecology, and landscape value. It is a prime tourist and recreational site for the island of Gozo, and is also an important asset for the island in attracting the television and cinematography industries.

The natural feature which constitutes the Azure Window is probably Dwejra’s best known landmark and probably the most extensively used scenery in the marketing of the island on an international level.  The Window is 50 metres high. It is nestled within the Dwejra Point Cliffs. Erosion is wearing away the surrounding support and it is estimated that the window will be gone within a few years due to the natural disintegration.

As you lay your foot on the grounds of Malta's cities you will set your adventure in discovering the beauty of Malta.  Despite the small size, the mainland have many places of interest to offer.  Everyone can optimally enjoy the natural, historical and cultural treasures of the archipelago. 

So much to see, and all within a short drive from any point of the island.   Malta has had such a rich history that the country is practically saturated with places of historical interest.