Learning to dive is an adventure that will probably be extremely rewarding and for many people it can be a life changing experience. That said – there are a couple of things to look out for when choosing your dive school and there are many opinions regarding this subject. In this article I will try [...]
I found some very interesting videos on Youtube showing the action during World War 2 in Malta. It has some very good footage and gives a very good background to the wreck dives of HMS Maori, the Blenheim Bomber and the Bristol Beaufighter.
Another artificial reef is underway in Florida with the 160 m long second world war missile tracking ship USS Hoyt S Vandenberg scheduled to be scuttled early 2009. She will join the USS Oriskany and USS Spiegel Grove as unique attraction for divers visiting Florida.
Wreck scuttling is extremely important for dive industries since they [...]
Hellespont is a relatively recently discovered wreck off the Grand Harbour – she was discovered in 1999 and this is one of my favourite dives. She is a victim of the intense bombings of Malta during WW2 but the ship is considerably older than that. She is in fact the only paddle steamer I have [...]
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Divernet reports that a wreck found in 245 metres of water may be the richest wreck ever found. The freighter was sunk by a U-boat off Guyana during WW2 and was supposedly carrying 10 tons of gold, 70 tons of platinum, 1.5 tons of industrial diamonds – all in all worth about 2.6 billion pounds [...]
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