On the 31st July, ATLAM closed off a diving events week with an underwater cleanup at Senglea. By just looking at the pictures, seems like they brought up lots of old stuff (including someone’s old robot!), and left the place a lot cleaner.
Well done to all those organising and involved!
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 Read More
On Tuesday 11 July 2023 four 12 litre cylinders (as per photo) were stolen off the back of a dive truck from near HMS Maori shore dive entry, along with cash from divers’ clothes. Should anyone have seen anything, or can identify any suspects, please call the police on anonymous tipping line 119. Cylinder serial Read More
Now that we have been up and running close to two years, with close to 300 followers on Facebook and a few hundred visitors a month, we wanted to formalise some additional information about the background, scope and direction that this page has been taking. For this reason, we have now added a divinginfo.mt policies Read More
Event shared by Cirkewwa Marine Park Event by Ċirkewwa Marine Park and Blue EcoTech Paradise Diving Duration: 2 hr 30 min Public · Anyone on or off Facebook The marine environment provides us with so much more than we can truly comprehend. During this interactive session, Dr Alexia Massa Gallucci from @BlueEcoTech (https://www.facebook.com/BlueEcoTech/) will introduce us to one of the Read More
Today Infrastructure Malta announced roadworks in the last couple of kilometres before arriving to the Ċirkewwa Marine Park. The works appear to intend to widen / remove bottlenecks for vehicles heading north to the Ferry Terminal. This will no doubt also affect divers heading for the Ferry. Infrastructure Malta’s statement states that works should be Read More
A fish farm diver who was left paralysed from the waist down following a deep-sea work dive back in April 2012 has been awarded over €500,000 in damages. Timesofmalta.com reports that Frederick Catania suffered from spinal decompression syndrome in April 2012, following a 71-metre dive to work on cages belonging to Ta’ Mattew Fish Farms Read More