http://www.independentscuba.com Independent advice for the Independent Diver Sun, 11 Jul 2010 06:28:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a relatively long period of inactivity I finally got some dives done this weekend and one of the sites was P29 which is one of the latest additions to Maltas wreck diving repertoire. Since I have not dived this dive for well over 2 years it was quite interesting ... http://www.independentscuba.com/2010/07/p29-revisited/ Malta is a tiny country with a major problem when it comes to electricity generation. As one step towards a more sustainable approach the government has planned to build a wind farm off Mellieha on a reef called Sikka l-Bajda - The White Reef. This reef is very nice for ... http://www.independentscuba.com/2010/05/windfarm-and-underwater-caves/ Deep Sea Productions, a very experienced Swedish team has found the British submarine E18 has been discovered close to an Estoninan island. The sub as been missing since 1916 when it disappeared during a routine assignemt. I have no information about depth or more details about its location but I am ... http://www.independentscuba.com/2009/10/world-war-1-submarine-discovered/ As some of yo may have noticed the updates are not as regular as they have been. This is due to some changes in my professional life which makes it hard to have enough time to keep up writing. I will keep adding updates on a slightly irregular basis to ... http://www.independentscuba.com/2009/10/regularly-irregular/ For anyone who like me watched Indiana Jones in their young years it is hard not to be fascinated with stories of people finding ancient structure underwater such as the ones in Younaguni in Okinawa. There are tons of web sites about this and they are often more or less ... http://www.independentscuba.com/2009/08/underwater-mysteries/ 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! http://www.independentscuba.com/2009/05/expedition-bismarck/ 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  ... http://www.independentscuba.com/2009/05/comino-caves/ 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 ... http://www.independentscuba.com/2009/05/new-aircraft-wrecks-found-off-malta/ 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 ... http://www.independentscuba.com/2009/05/black-listed-dive-centres-in-egypt/ Reverse profiling has been a hot topic over the years and it will probably stay like that until we fully understand decompression and the mechanisms that control whether we get bent or not. The traditional view is that you should start with the deepest dive first and then continue with ... http://www.independentscuba.com/2009/04/reverse-profiling/