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
Timesofmalta.com reports that Oceanography experts are encouraging people to eat an alien species of shrimp that has seen an increase in population over the past five years. Prof. Alan Deidun took to Facebook on Monday with photos of the Red Sea mantis shrimp, a crustacean native to tropical waters first caught in Maltese waters five Read More
From the Times of Malta The grandson of a wartime Royal Navy lieutenant commander has dived to the sunken submarine where his grandfather served and left behind a poignant gift – a bottle of the seaman’s own blend of whisky. Nick Christie’s grandfather George was second in command of HMS Stubborn, an S-class submarine that Read More
The below is an interesting short clip (in Maltese) which has been just published about divers within the Armed Forces of Malta covering the role of diver, basic training and day to day to work. In this interview, Sgt. Coleiro, a member of the Ammo & Explosives Squadron which holds within it the Diving section, Read More
An interesting workshop was held on the 3 May 2023 whereas NGOs and Authorities together with the project managers and experts involved in the Coastal Cover project has to opportunity to study some of the results obtained so far throughout the project. Experts from France, Ireland, Italy and Spain also recounted their experience with projects Read More
Divinginfo.mt will in the coming days have a new section called “Opinions”. The aim is to provide a platform for relevant opinion pieces by persons involved in diving around the Maltese Islands. The target is to have diverse opinions about several topics shared or reproduced from other media, about which using discus comments, you may Read More
Posted by Frederick Galea on Facebook on the 05/05/2023 A long while ago, a fisherman, dropped by aviation our museum and handed over to us a barnacle encrusted aircraft part which had become entangled in one of his nets. He was aware that many years earlier an aircraft has come down in the sea off Read More