Team Utina

Utina Diving College Ltd is a PADI Five Star Gold Palm IDC Centre and diving school and prides itself on its friendly professional attitude to diving.  We are also a PADI TecRec Centre and can provide a full range of courses from the TecRec beginner all the way through to Instructor level. CLICK ON TECREC for more information. At the school we our aim is to make your experience of diving with us aound the Island something that you want to come back to. The school is affiliated with ITDA (International Technical Diving Association) and are now able to offer a range of Technical Diving Courses. For more information click the link ITDA or the logo on our home page. Utina Diving School are also the sole agents for the latest in underwater technology - MiniB - this is the cutting edge of the latest development in diving in shallow waters called Micodiving. For more information please visit Snubatoday.

We have the advantage of having both English and German speaking staff.  The school has regular social gatherings during the season where divers and non-divers are welcome. The school also offer a free wireless internet facility for our customers who have their own laptop or we have a guest computer facilities available for customer use. Utina is also a participant in the PADI eLearning Program-click here or on the link icon at the bottom of our homepage.The school is a member of the PDSA - Malta's supervisory diving body to which all licensed diving centres and school's belong.

• Sally Carr - Owner
• Neil Meston - Staff & Tec Instructor
• Xavier Hancock - Staff Instructor
• Rob Harris - Instructor and MSDT





Sally – Started diving with Utina several years ago and continued her diving experience and development in Gozo as well as many other well known diving areas.  Sally is now an EFR Instructor and owner of the college.

Neil Meston - Staff Instructor & MSDT. Neil has been diving for number of years having begun his diving career at Utina and has progressed through to Staff Instructor as well as a MiniB Instructor. Neil feels the warm friendly team at Utina is a very encouraging centre to further diving ambitions due to the close working atmosphere of all members of the college

Xavier Hancock – Staff Instructor. Xavier, Utina's Director of Diving is a Staff instructor with an intimate knowledge of the island having lived and dived here for most of his life.

Rob Harris – Instructor. Rob Harris, following his relocation to Gozo early in 2007, completed his Divemaster with Utina and is now a member of the Utina team.  Rob who is a Sports Injury Therapist and his wife Pam are keen divers and spend much of their leisure time diving for fun.

Tony Colombo – Staff Instructor. Known to all as TC is a Staff Instructor of considerable experience having dived all over the world in a variety of conditions. TC has now spent several years on the Island working as an Instructor and like all the other members of the college brings a warm and customer focussed presence to the daily working routine.