Discover the Wrecks of Malta by Submarine

Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity

Dive to depths of up to 130 meters with family and friends to explore historic wrecks from the safety and comfort of a proven Triton submersible as your entire experience is documented in a professional 4K video. Using a support vessel alongside your yacht as a base for operations, this deep-sea adventure will see you exploring recently discovered shipwrecks in the company of a professional submarine pilot with a film and photography expert on hand to capture the entire experience.

Seabed Discoveries

Your support vessel will also carry an additional submarine and pilot to accommodate your videographer as well as an ROV that will capture images and light the way. The submarine can carry out up to four dives per day so we recommend allowing at least four days for this experience to ensure your entire family or group of friends has the chance to witness a number of different wreck sites. There are up to 9 shipwrecks and 8 plane wrecks at depths varying from 40 to 130 metres that we suggest choosing from for this 4-day add-on experience, each with their own unique story and all accessible from Malta’s capital, Valetta.

Underwater History

Lying at a depth of 57m, uncover the story of 66m British submarine HMS Stubborn. Launched in 1942, her short-lived war career saw her successfully torpedo and sink two German merchant ships off Norway in 1944, and in 1945 she was transferred to the Pacific where she sank a Japanese patrol ship. HMS Stubborn came to rest on the seabed off Malta on 30th April 1946 as she was purposely targeted as part of a submarine sonar training exercise by the Royal Navy.

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Delving further back in history to World War 1, you can explore the wreck of HMY Aegusa. Built in 1896, she was purchased by Sir Thomas Lipton and renamed Erin to be used as a tender to his fleet of racing yachts. During WWI she was loaned to the Red Cross to transport doctors before being commissioned to the Royal Navy as HMS Aegusa on 3rd July 1915. She was sadly struck down by a mine on the 27th April 1916 whilst trying to save the surviving crew members of HMS Nasturtium and sank at the site in just 7 minutes, along with 6 of her crew.

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Other vessels that can be explored include 140m HMS Russell, one of the fastest battleships in the history of the British Navy, sunk by two mines in 1916 and now lying at a depth of 118m, or Polynesian SS, a passenger ship that was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in 1918 and that rested, undiscovered, on the sea floor for nearly 100 years. Sunken aircrafts that you can visit include the Bristol Beaufighter, developed during WWII as a multi-role aircraft, US patrol plane and submarine hunter Lockheed P2V Neptune or a Ju 88 German twin-engine, all metal bomber, lying deeper than all other planes in the area at 120-metres.