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Jan20

The Cirkewwa Voluntary Marine Reserve

When in 1985, I, together with George Vella and Tony Lautier started the first Marine Conservation Society to promote the banning of spearfishing with aqualungs and the creations of marine sanctuaries, we were supported by many UK divers. Also giving us a lot of input were the MCS of the UK. One of the things they had mentioned was the efforts that were being made at St.Abbs in Scotland to make this a Voluntary Marine Reserve (VMR).

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Sep20

Bombs and Seahorses

We could round up three members of Scubaworks Malta for a midday dive at Zurrieq on Sunday. Good enough! We decided to go left out of the harbour; well it makes a change from the wreck, and I had never been along that part of the reef.

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Jul7

Gozo on 4th of July – A High 5 Dive Day

Obviously it being a lovely warm and sunny Sunday in Malta, the scubaworksmalta.com team just had to go diving.

Being July 4th, we just had to make it a ‘High 5 Dive Day’, just because we are like that ;-)

The BSAC divers looked a little (more than normal) bewildered.

So with full cylinders, scrubbers packed (for the rebreather divers), wetsuits (and even a drysuit?!) we duly met up at the Cirkewwa Ferry Terminal.

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May3

Declare Cirkewwa a Marine Sanctuary – facts and efforts

In 2004 we as environmentalist, I am including all divers here, were hit by a great stroke of luck.

By pure chance we find, through a question in parliament from the shadow minister for the environment, to the minister responsible for the environment that;

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