After looking at this tremendous video, narrated by the one and only Sir David Attenborough I am very pleased that I am not born as a fur seal. Incredible indeed. This video is, I believe, a part of the excellent TV documentary the Blue Planet which was produced by BBC a couple of years ago. [...]
The latest addition to Malta’s successful artificial reef program is the former East German mine sweeper P29 Boltenhagen. She was scuttled in 2007 in the popular dive area of Cirkewwa in Malta as the second wreck in the area – the first one is the very popular dive Rozi.
The wreck is pretty deep – 36-37 [...]
The liveaboard M/V Dive Asia sank outside Phuket in Thailand last week. She was heading from Phuket to the Similan Islands but sank on the way. 20 divers were later found alive, floating in the water – seven are still reported as missing. It is unclear what caused the accident.
The Phuket Gazette reports: “The body [...]
One of the things I would like to provide here at Independent Scuba is some sort of review of different Scuba Diving courses. For a beginner it is not obvious what a course contains and I also think that while many scuba diving courses are very good there are also plenty of examples of the [...]
Divernet have now published the article from John Liddiards last visit to Malta where he focuses on wrecks, deep and shallow. I have known John since 2001 when I dived with him in the fiords of Sweden and I always enjoy reading his articles. This time he was also diving with my old dive centre, [...]
Malta has been voted the third best diving destination in the world by some 35,000 readers of Diver Magazine, a British publication, preceded only by Egypt and the Maldives.
The Malta Tourism Authority said the waters around Malta and Gozo were blessed with rocky reefs, caves, plentiful marine life and the wrecks of ships from Malta’s [...]
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