Excellent set of dives in Malta

The weather was pretty shocking so we dived mainly out of Inland Sea. Some local spectators had huge fun watching 8 Tec divers with two stages each waiting for the swell to throw them up on to the rock plateaux so we could get out! Some excellent dives in the end though. Fantastic viz. HMS Stubborn provided some fun and frolics yesterday when we actually saw a turtle on our 9m Deco stop.

Drove out the the Blue Grotto today and dived the Faroud. I hadn’t seen this wreck for two years, but it still inspires awe as you see it in it’s full majesty. We couldn’t have asked for better viz and it still provides a really exciting swim through for divers new to penetration diving. There wasn’t a huge amount of life around during the day, but we grabbed some food from the local cafe and hung around for dusk. Oh my, was it worth the wait.

There was a ballet of Spanish Dancers, one beauty, black and red, showing off for the whole group. Several smaller ones joined in the fun, at which point we spotted a very cheeky octopus clambering up one of the diver’s fins (serves her right for not hovering in my opinion!). A good number of wrasse around too, which always makes me wonder why they don’t come out during the day! The grotto can seem so barren sometimes and yet every night dive I do there is full of life. A good few prawns scurrying around and best of all, some baby Moray Eels nestled into the rocks.