Today, the Ċirkewwa Marine Park announced in an advert on the Sunday Times of Malta that it is seeking companies to tender for the manufacture, supply and installation of three special marker buoys including the necessary bathymetric studies to delineate the Ċirkewwa Marine Park. (Click on link to see tender documentation)
Whilst it may take some time until the deliverable is completed, this indicates a step forward for formalising the boundaries of the park, something which divers are concerned it is taking much more than expected.
This also leads to lack of awareness (or carelessness) by mariners which is repeatedly shown by frequent over-speeding marine navigation through the park, even though in summer marker buoys are already installed in the vicinity of the two wrecks in the park, the Tug Boat Rozi and the P29 Patrol Boat, and various notices to mariners outlaw high speed and most fishing activity within the park.
It is expected that once such buoys are in place together with supporting regulations, speed and/or navigational limitations would be enforced.
