Alessandro Bajada is well known on social media for his photography, as well as for digitising and sharing vintage footage showing Maltese landscapes from decades ago.
Below is a selection of videos that he has uploaded to Facebook that are relevant to diving, going back even 50 years ago!
1973 – First Northern European Championships – Malta
Video below from https://www.facebook.com/alessandro.bajada/videos/10211210873049400/
This Clip is a throwback to 1973. It was the first Northern European Championships held in Malta. I would like to thank these people for making this clip possible. My niece Becky Bajada my cousin Eric Grech , Edward Arrigo and last but not least Taran Arrigo for all the help and patience.
This short clip is dedicated in the memory of my father Emanuel who had filmed this film my brother Gennaro also to Tony Micallef Borg and John Bondin. I hope you like it as much as I enjoyed editing it…………
Alessandro Bajada
1990 – Blue Dolphin of Malta International Underwater Photography Competition
Video below is a collage of 4 videos shared by Alessandro Bajada showing the video in 4 parts, which actually 2 parts of which are raw footage of divers preparing for the five, whilst the 2nd two parts are a recording of a TVM documentary about the event.
Part 1: https://www.facebook.com/alessandro.bajada/videos/10210785424693457
Part 2: https://www.facebook.com/alessandro.bajada/videos/10210787080974863/
Part 3: https://www.facebook.com/alessandro.bajada/videos/10210791001152865/
Part 4: https://www.facebook.com/alessandro.bajada/videos/10210791977697278/
The Blue Dolphin Photographic Competition way back in 15th November 1990 done at Gozo Ta’Cenc. Special guests Francisco Ferreras Cuban freediver known as Pipin (1962-) and the (late) Jacque Mayol another French legend freediver (1927-2001) took part in this event.
Alessandro Bajada
I hope you all enjoy these Video uploads the first film in two parts was filmed by me and the other was a short documentary courtesy of TVM which will also be in two parts.
I am uploading it as Public so please feel free to share and Tag whoever took part in this event. It should bring wonderful memories to all those who participated in any way in this wonderful event.