I hope you know that the biggest Great White Shark ever caught was caught off Malta? It was 23' long and weighed 3 tons!
Yes and I met the bloke who caught it, and ate in his restaurant.
Smashing place Malta.
The local ladies derive a lot of their style from Italy, and their genes from North Africa, a very good combination indeed.
Have a smashing time Johnathan, and dont get eaten or drowned.
Who will write all the threads then ? ;-)
The story of the 2nd Siege of Malta is one of my favourites. Lovely island - I enjoyed my time working there but am happy to keep it to summer visits nowadays.
The Obnoxio needs to walk for about 10 minutes towards Spinola Bay. He'll find some lovely, cheap restaurants there.
The Maltese are wonderful people. They can be a little closed off when it comes to foreigners, however. Well done marrying one!
If Jonathan is mentioning Malta in the same breath as WWII, he should give the country its proper designation ... Malta, GC.
About those old wrecks 'n aircraft bit - remember the conscientious diver's credo, will you?
"Take only pictures, leave only bubbles."
Doesn't help knowing the next bloke along will surely snaffle any choice bit you leave on the ocean floor, but at least you can feel morally superior...
CIA (Congratulations In Advance)!
I hadn't thought there was much in the way of reefs around Malta, but I hope there is much to see.
As for wrecked planes and ships - probably not much: I think the vast majority were lost well offshore in deep water.
For ships: go to the Pacific and dive Truk Lagoon or Iron Bottom Sound.
For planes: come to Chicago. Really. There are lots of wrecked Wildcats and Avengers in Lake Michigan, relics of the WWII carrier training program. (During the War, the Navy converted two excursion steamers into four-funnel, coal-burning, side-paddlewheel aircraft carriers. From the downtown skyscrapers, one could watch the Top Guns of 1943 practicing deck landings .)