A winter weekend of diving and seahorses hunting in Malta
by Mark Dove
In the UK only the most addicted and hardy divers would plan a weekend underwater at the end of January. Here in Malta we don’t need to break any ice before we start, and So Scubaworks organised some off-season dives for Saturday and Sunday. The weather forecast was reasonable, but it had been windy all week, and on turning up at Cirkewwa (Malta’s most popular dive site) it quickly became apparent that even if we got in and underwater quickly, we would be faced with possible beaching on very sharp rocks as we tried to get out again, so large was the swell.
No problem – divers always have a plan B, and so we boarded the roll-on roll-off car ferry over to Gozo, Malta’s smaller sister island. read more...
Posted by Scuba Works Malta under Diving, Sites | Permalink | 1 Comment »Why use a dive guide in Malta?
Knowledge is king! You may have been diving for years and have 1 or 1000 dives logged but if you’re not familiar with the dive site or location then my advice is to use the services of a local dive guide. Not only do you get to your chosen site without delay (Local knowledge driving as well as diving) but when onsite he/she can then advise the best dive to be done with the conditions of the day. Having dived the site many times a guide can show a dive site at its best by swimming many of the routes which encumber you seeing much more! Many of which are very easily passed without local knowledge. read more...
Posted by Scuba Works Malta under Diving, Sites | Permalink | No Comments »Dry suit diving
The winter is here, the water is already 18 degrees and we just got our new dry suits. It never get very cold in Malta and one can still dive with 7mm wet suit but with the amount of dives we do for us Is better to stay dry. Our new suits are neoprene Northern diver from their army range.
During our familiarization with the suits we came up with the ideas and decided to list few tips about the dry suit diving that might be useful for you: read more...
Posted by Scuba Works Malta under Commercial diving, Diving | Permalink | No Comments »Shark researches in Malta – not a dead cause
Scuba Works Malta in collaboration with Sharklab takes part in few research projects related to the sharks in the seas around Malta.
Who are Sharklab ?
Sharklab is a non- profit NGO and was founded by Andrej Gajic and Greg Nowell in 2008 and is an expanding global organisation with researchers based in Bosnia & Herzegovina, South Africa, Malta, United States, Australia, Malaysia, Canada, Kuwait, and the UK. read more...
Posted by Scuba Works Malta under Clean Sea, Diving | Permalink | 3 Comments »