If you're going to dive in Malta, you cannot do better than go with Dawn Diving. Hannes is not only a highly knowledgeable guide with years of experience diving across... read more the globe, he is also an astute, patient and effective instructor who, after one dive, is quickly able to assess where you need to develop and helps you do so before and after each trip.

Safety is paramount, and by carefully monitoring the weather, Hannes ensured that we were able to dive safely and enjoyable each day, matching each dive to our level and ability.

All the rental equipment is in good order

  Excellent centre with really good staff, was very accommodating, staff had excellent knowledge and very welcoming to the whole group, will defiantly be using again.

  We had a fantastic week diving in Malta! Hannes guidance, support and logistics were second to none! I felt very safe and was able to enjoy the dives to the... read more maximum! I truly recommend Dawn Diving and Hannes as your first choice if you want to dive in Malta. Health and safety as well providing the right equipment so that we can enjoy our dives was Hannes primary concern!
Thanks Hannes and Dawn diving, we will definitely be back!!
Manu & Lesley

  If a good dive center deserves 5 stars, dawn diving should have 8 stars.

If you are looking for excellent, custom tailored dive experiences, you should go there. This... read more is not a dive factory.

When you walk in, Rhona will be there for you as a ray of sunlight to brighten your day. Always a smile, a joke and friendly words. Every day. Cup of coffee or tea offered when prepping for your dive day.

You are absolute beginners? They have what you need. All rental gear in good shape and well maintained. An instructor with over 10000 dives and many, many years of experience well prepared for all types of people, with a 1-on-1 or 1-on-2 approach. No large groups where you all sit on the bottom and do each exercise once!

if you are intermediate/advanced divers, they will build a custom schedule for you based on your preferences, qualification and interests. Even if the weather is against you, they will go above and beyond to find alternatives to still have enjoyable dive days.
They also proactively care for your safety, when the conditions are too harsh for your experience level (or just potentially dangerous for everyone) they will tell you honestly and rather postpone than risk giving you a bad or dangerous dive just to make a few € more.

You want to mix continued education with fun dives? No problem. This is not a "shop" that only wants to sell OW and AOW courses. Mix shore and boat dives? No problem. Gozo dives? No problem.

A little rusty? No problem either, a refresher and they'll set you straight for a good dive vacation.

You want tec diving? Well, they can do that too.

Hannes is one of the most patient, gentle and calm instructors I have ever met, who will guide you and put you at ease. With his enormous amount of experience, he'll know what you can and can't handle after an initial dive, and will give you honest advice.
Don't let the grey hair fool you, he has eagle eyes that can spot tiny morays or a well-camouflaged octopus from a distance where I had to look 3 times when hovering at barely a meter distance 😉

We've done 10 dives with them and added some specialization training, and I could not find a downside at all. We will be back next year and wouldn't even consider any other dive operation.

  The first set of dives I had in over 2 years due to the whole mess caused by Covid, so I was a bit rusty at first. However, Rhona and... read more Hannes were great people and divers, and despite a few hiccups on my side, they were patient and friendly people, and I enjoyed the whole experience.

At twenty metres, there's plenty of sea life to be seen, different varieties of fish, sea urchins and jellyfish at this depth. Also saw a mossal eel and some octopus in some areas of the coral. I recommend you take a GoPro down you.

The whole experience was great, and if I'm able to come back to Malta again, I choose Dawn Diving without a doubt

  Last weekend I flew down to Malta with the hope of doing a few dives while my wife enjoyed Defected Malta. I found Dawn Diving on the web and since... read more they happened to be around the corner from my hotel I reached out to see if they could help make this happen.

From the first mail they have been super 🙂 We planed dives Friday, Saturday and Sunday and all the spots I asked for were in the schedule. I went straight from the airport and stepped in to the center Friday afternoon and just a few hours later I was underwater doing my first dive with Hannes. Both Rhona and Hannes really made my weekend a great experience and everything was super smooth.

Thank you for a great diving weekend and I hope to see you soon again!

  Great experience, Rhona and Hannes are both awesome and really friendly, very stress free and easy to do, highly recommend.

  Lovely experience! They are super friendly and professional. I enjoyed the two dives at HMS Maori in the Valetta harbour.

  Rhona and Hannes are both very kind as well as professionals.

The journey starts at Dawn Diving's centre at Qawra... the we arrive to Gozo through ferry and then... read more after a 30 min ride we arrive to the first diving spot (The Blue Hole).

In short, we performed two scuba diving sessions well guided by Hannes... My favorite one was the first one. For sure I will repeat this experience with the hand of Dawn Diving.

  I did a try dive with these guys in 2014 and came back in 2022 after having got my Open Water in the UK. Found out the owners had changed,... read more but the experience was equally as good.

As a relatively inexperienced diver, I've learnt the hard way that the best thing you can do before a dive is to stay relaxed. Dawn Diving completely understand this.

Hannes was super chilled and clearly very experienced - I could not have felt safer with him as my guide. He also wasn't afraid to give pointers to improve my skills (in my case he stopped me from being overweighted and helped demystify some of the parts of the logbook post-dive). Rhona in the shop was also very friendly and knowledgeable.

I had an amazing time, the visibility was incredible, saw loads of sea life and improved my confidence.

Whatever your experience level, you will have a great time with Dawn Diving.

  Wow, what an amazing company, and couple, the husband and wife team of Dawn Diving. We had an amazing experience diving with them. We had come out from UK for... read more a beach holiday and diving experience. As a experienced diver, I was keen for my 17 year old son to learn to dive. I wanted it to be a memorable experience for him and for his first dives to be enjoyable and stress free, as this would perpetuate further diving for him. He was a bit nervous and couldn't have been met by a nicer person, Rhona, who immediately put his mind as ease and encouraged him. Followed up with the calm and gentle nature of Hannes, his dive instructor. He completed his Open Water in 3 days, and thanks to Hannes experience and skill, thoroughly enjoyed it and felt very competent afterwards. The team made diving fun and safe, and gave a very personalise service also with small dive groups. I couldn't have asked for more. 10/10 A big thanks to them for a truly wonderful experience, Would definitely recommend them, and be back for more dives. As an experienced diver, I did some amazing dives with Hannes too, a stunning Reck dive at 34M and some lovey reef dives too. Rhona and Hannes were superb and friendly people, Thanks so very much!!

  We had an incredibly nice diving holiday with Hannes and Rhona. so much experience and kindness! Thanks for everything and we'll be back for the wreck diving!

  We had an incredibly nice diving holiday with Hannes and Rhona. so much experience and kindness! Thanks for everything and we'll be back for the wreck diving!

  Here you can dive as it should be. Relaxed, safe and welcoming. Hannes is an extremely experienced diver and constantly trying to give everyone a nice dive trip and gives... read more very good advices and also explains them to understand them better.

  We had an excellent experience with Rhona and Hannes at Dawn diving. They were so friendly and welcoming and had a great set up at the centre. Highly recommend!

  Best experience for your first dive, very kind and nice people from the first contact, very peofessional!