Transport Malta has issued Notice to Mariners 024 of 2024 advising of filming being carried out on Saturday 6 April 2024 at Marfa Breakwater and Għajn Żejtuna (a quay near Mellieħa bay – Santa Maria Estate zone), with alternatives at Fekruna Quay, Xemxija if weather is unfavourable.
Mooring operations may be affected, so please plan alternatives if organising boat dives.
Victor Micallef is a local diver with a keen interest in photography but also marine biology. Over the last year or so, he published on Facebook a nice set of curiosities about different species that inhabit Maltese waters and also from further afar. We collect them below. Victor also has an interesting blog called My Read More
The Institute of Tourism Studies announced applications are open for persons interested in its Bachelor of Science in Diving Safety Management programme. This programme of studies is organised in collaboration with Divers Alert Network. Full details of the programme of studies from here: https://its.edu.mt/course?course_code=PT6DSM
The main shore accessible Conservation Areas around Wrecks are now off limits to any boating activity save for diving support vessels, and exclude trolling fishing from continuing in these sites. A new notice to mariners published today addresses the safety concern that freedivers and scuba divers have been raising over the years! Thanks to TM Read More
In a post on Facebook, Marine Biologist Alan Deidun anounced that the Spot the Jellyfish campaign website is currently offline. Until this is fixed, you can send your sightings reports through the campaign’s Facebook Page, by email to Prof. Deidun as per below or via SMS/Whatsapp on 79604109
Isn’t the sea boiling enough at the moment for you to make tea with it? From Lovinmalta The first-ever recorded marine heatwave is currently hitting the central Mediterranean sea, as part of the ongoing effects of climate change. What is being described as “exceptional”, the marine heatwave has led to surface temperatures being five degrees Read More
Posted by Mr Frederick Galea on Facebook on the 19/05/2023 In 1947, the Air Scouts of Malta were presented with a complete Mk IX Spitfire, EN199. Sadly over the years it fell into disuse and also victim of souvenir hunters, vandals, etc. By 1976, little was left of the aircraft, and that was recovered by Read More