New Dimension Scuba

Two names come up again and again in reviews of New Dimension Scuba: Susie Williams and Ben Breakspear. NDS, as it's also known, works the St Paul's Bay resort strip, a stretch crowded with rival dive operators, and it doesn't hold exclusive access to any site there. Malta's marquee dives nearby, Cirkewwa, Um El Faroud and the Valletta wrecks, are shore-accessible and shared across the area's centres, so what separates one operator from another here comes down to transport, local knowledge and instructor availability.

What distinguishes New Dimension Scuba is its size. Susie Williams and Ben Breakspear describe themselves as currently the faces of the centre, running what they call a small, incredible dive base built around just the two of them. That scale carries through to its own-site content too: dedicated pages exist for most of the sites it dives, including both of Cirkewwa's named arches, Ghar Lapsi, Qawra Point and the Tug 2 wreck at Exiles, well beyond a generic area overview.

Discover Scuba Diving sessions run daily at set morning and afternoon times, and guided fun-dive itineraries are chosen day to day among the local sites depending on conditions.

Pricing runs on a pay-per-pack model, confirmed with a EUR50 deposit and the balance paid at the centre after diving, which suits multi-day holiday divers booking several dives at once. Free hotel transport covers the immediate St Paul's Bay area, including Qawra, Bugibba and Xemxija.

Reviewers single out clear dive briefings and calm, patient handling of nervous first-timers and non-swimmers, with that day's conditions deciding where the fun dives go. Ben Breakspear and Susie Williams come up by name across a full year of dated reviews far more often than the centre itself does, and several guests return for a second consecutive year of training or fun dives with the same two guides.