I have briefly mentioned the Bismarck in my write up about HMS Maori and she is certainly something out of the ordinary. As I was browsing through Youtube I came across James Camerons excellent account of her sinking. You can watch all ten parts here – extremely interesting!
Malta and Gozo has a relative large number of sea caves which has earned the islands a somewhat overinflated reputation as a cave diving destination. Most of these caves are in reality caverns or swim throughs and they are also very nice and relatively easy accessible for most divers. Among the most famous such dives [...]
A couple of new aircraft wrecks have been found off Malta by minesweepers. Times of Malta reports that the wrecks are a Firefly, one Beaufighter and a Skyraider. I have unfortunately no information about the depth of these wrecks but a Beaufighter in good condition would certainly be an interesting dive. More information and some [...]
Egypt has forcibly closed 23 dive centres which supposedly do not meed the quality requirements set up by the Chamber of Diving and Watersports. This is a part of a license enforcing programme. While this sounds good in theory I am not so convinced that process works well. Egypt is a thoroughly corrupt country and [...]
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