Welcome to OrangeShark Diving Centre, your premier destination for unforgettable underwater experiences! Nestled in the heart of Mellieha, close to the most popular and beautiful dive locations, we offer a range of diving services for both beginners and seasoned divers. We operate all year round giving you the option to dive any time that suits you!
We are dedicated to providing top diving experiences while prioritising safety, environmental sustainability, and fun. OrangeShark is a 5-Star PADI Instructor Development Resort, where you can receive training from entry level to professional courses, including all specialty and technical courses.
Our team consists of highly trained and experienced diving professionals, with plenty of knowledge of the Maltese islands. Whether you’re stepping into the water for the first time or you’re a certified diver, we ensure you are guided safely and confidently.
Malta is known for being a mostly shore diving destination but at Orangeshark we have our own dedicated diving boat, Paola One, and it allows us to take you to even more of Malta’s diving sites.
Whether you’re diving for the first time or you’re a seasoned diver looking for new adventures, OrangeShark Diving Centre is here to help you explore the wonders beneath the surface. Dive with us and discover the beauty and thrill of the underwater world!
What we offer
Transportation to and from the dive sites will always be offered to you as part of your diving day. If you are staying in our partner hotel or close by to our centre we can also offer pick ups and drop offs depending on location.
Our equipment for our rental equipment is of a high standard, making sure everything along with our tanks are serviced year on year. We use the latest equipment from Cressi.
Our group sizes are always kept smaller, whether on a course or on a fun dive, to ensure that you receive maximum attention, safety and quality. We also aim to group divers based on experience and interest to avoid disappointment.
Our Partners
This title of PADI 5-star Dive Resort is attributed to modern PADI dive shops that excel in customer care, underwater security and awareness of the submerged environment, providing them with a highly professional service. Moreover the dive shop must meet high commercial standards, offer the full range of certification programs and provide only high quality and first-rate equipment to its customers. The PADI 5-star Instructor Development Centre meets all the standards as above as well as off PADI Instructor Training.
SUEX is accredited as the leading manufacturer of world-famous underwater scooters/DPVs. Orangeshark is a SUEX DPV and products distributor and also recognised as a SUEX Service and Maintenance centre for the island of Malta. At Orangeshark can be trained for the DPV specialty course using
the best DPV units on the market, you will have the chance to hire SUEX DPVs to improve your diving range, taking full advantage of the most up to date diving propulsion equipment.
Divers Alert Network represents the best known and efficient underwater insurance agency in the world. Orangeshark renews its insurance every year for the diving centre to ensure maximum security and protection for its customers. Orangeshark also offers to the divers the possibility to make daily, weekly, monthly or yearly DAN insurance at the centre.
Project AWARE is a non-profit foundation that commits itself to the protection and safeguard of the ocean and all its forms of the life that inhabits it. As a 100% AWARE partner, Orangeshark educates and enhances its customers respect for the marine environment. Every year, Orangeshark promotes and participates in environmental protection events such as beach and underwater clean-ups.
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Green Fins is an organisation working towards conservation management, working with diving centres and other marine activity centres to help reduce negative impacts of the oceans. The help to provide low cost alternative to harmful practices and to promote sustainable tourism. Orangeshark has been a member of Green Fins since 2024.