Observations on Cirkewwa – part of the efforts to make it a Marine Sanctuary
For the past 25 years the amateur and professional Diving Community of Malta, including the 60,000 diving tourists annually, have been writing and arguing in favor of declaring this gem of Biodiversity to be protected and declared a marine sanctuary.
Since joining the EU Cirkewwa has become a defacto protected area by way of a law prohibiting all types of fishing around wrecks.
End of February weekend of diving and sun in Malta
Our first dive for the weekend is Zurrieq next to Blue Grotto . The wreck Um El Farud is the target (Debbie miss it the last time) and 3-4 buddy pairs set off in search! Mission accomplished as all were found swimming around the wreck happily poking in and out of holes. Debbie is running a marathon keeping up but enjoying the wreck passing by many of the sights to be held on this dive.
120 bars of air left and time to head back to shore leaving the wreck behind heading mid-water back to the reef! On target we hit the reef at 10 meters and slowly head back to Zurrieq in-let. Our eye’s are seeking in all nooks and crannies for an octopus as Debbie has yet to have seen one since she has lived in Malta.
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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 [...]
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