Exclusive Tec Wreck Month visiting some of the best wrecks in the world at Oxygene Malta
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Tec Wreck Month at Oxygene Malta 23.03 - 23.04.2010
Exclusive Tec Wreck Month visiting some of the best wrecks in the world at Oxygene Malta
Oxygene Malta will be holding a Tec Wreck month from the 23 March until the 23 April 2010. Exclusive tec diving excursions will be offered on some of the best wrecks in the world such as the Um El Faroud (35m), P29 Boltenhagen (37m), Bristol Beaufighter (38m), Imperial Eagle (40m), Blenheim Bomber (42m), HMS Hellespont (42m), MV Cominoland (42m), MV Karwela (42m), MV Xlendi (42m), HM Drifter Eddy (56m), HMS Stubborn (57m), HMS St. Angelo (58m), HMS Emily (58m), Le Polynesien (64m), Schellboot S 31 (64m) & HMS Southwold (74m). To participate in the technical diving excursions, every diver must provide a technical qualification from a recognised training agency such as DSAT, GUI, IANTD, NAUI Tec, TDI etc.
If you are not a Tec Diver yet, Oxygene Malta offers the full range of DSAT technical diving courses from Tec 40 to Tec Trimix.
The Complete Technical Diving Package - No Hidden Surprises
Oxygene Malta believes your courses should be fully inclusive and without surprises, so we provide a complete package price. All our tec courses are fully inclusive of:
- boat
- course materials & certification
- equipment
- gases
All students must meet the prerequisites experience prior to any course.
You will only do your course once - so make this a memorable experience and choose some awesome diving!
Limited seats are available for tec diving excursions & courses.
If you are interested, we would be happy to receive an email discussing all of your options in greater detail on malta@oxygenediving.com. A personal touch goes a long way when investing time and money in your diver education.
Recreational diving is also available during this month.
See you in Malta then!!!
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Malta’s newly scuttled wreck – The ex-Pasewalk P31 Patrol Boat
Malta’s newly scuttled wreck – The ex-Pasewalk P31 Patrol Boat
Under Malta’s mid-day summer sun, boatloads of people watched the scuttling of the Malta’s decommissioned Patrol boat P31. The smooth sinking process took about an hour before the ship finally settled on the bottom. The mast has been laid flat in order to provide 10 meters of clearance from the surface.
The P31 has been scuttled at Tal-Matz on the West coast of Comino, just around the corner from the famous Blue Lagoon. The P31, ex-Pasewalk, is the sister ship to the P30, ex-Ueckermunde, and the P29, ex-Boltenhagen, the later already scuttled in August 2007 just off Cirkewwa, on the north coast of Malta. The former East-German Kondor I class patrol boat was built in 1969 at Wolgast and like it’s sister ship, performed minesweeping duties along the river banks between East and West Germany, and between Germany and Denmark by East-German Navy. It was then transferred to Malta in 1992 where the AFM (Armed Forces Malta) attached a Quad 14.5 mm gun to the otherwise unarmed patrol boat to carry out her duties over Malta’s Continental Shelf. The 361 ton (full load), twin diesel 4000bhp, twin propeller was responsible for many offshore missions including patrolling the Continental Shelf, boarder patrols, anti-contraband missions and numerous rescue work.
Most notably was the rescue of 251 illegal immigrants from their 20 meter boat which was sinking 44 miles to the south of Malta in over force 6 winds which P31’s 20knt top speed helped to reach them. It was decommissioned in 2004 and bought by the Malta Tourism Authority who then funded everything from the planning to the actual sinking of the wreck. The 52 meter long and 7 meter wide vessel lying at 19 meters depth on clear white sands makes this wreck a great dive for both beginner and advanced divers not to mention great for free diving. It has been cleaned and doors removed so even penetration can be carried out safely if you are properly trained. Although not much life is on the wreck, it’s very close proximity to Poseidon sea grass will encourage the local marine life to settle on this latest wreck.
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Oxygene Malta sponsors the 2009 Rolex European Scholar
Oxygene Malta sponsors the 2009 Rolex European Scholar
Oxygene Malta recently welcomed Filip Wolski, the current Rolex European Scholar who has just finished his DSAT Tec Trimix course at our dive centre taught by our technical instructor Sven Heymann.
For more than 35 years, Our World Underwater Scholarship Society has created invaluable opportunities for young scholars like Filip to pursue careers related to the underwater world. The society provides experience-based scholarships and internships with renowned marine & fresh water experts throughout the world.
Filip, now 21 years old was born in Poland and since early childhood he has been keenly interested in sciences, logical thinking and the world. At age 10 he was part of a team who qualified to the International Finals of the ´Odyssey of the Mind´ - a competition of creative thinking - finishing in third place. Water he says has always played an important role in his life spending most of his childhood holidays at the shore where he first encountered scuba divers and became fascinated with their strange equipment and longing for his first breath underwater. It was however when Filip moved to the University of Warsaw that his opportunities to pursue his fascination with diving improved and he joined the local Diving Club. Qualified as a PADI Divemaster and Nitrox qualified with more than 200 dives under his belt, Filip helps to instruct handicapped divers and teaches freediving in his spare time. He has been described by his tutors as "the most talented and hard working disciple" and is predicted to be awarded a Fellowship at the University of Warsaw being regarded as one of the best students in the history of the Faculty.
Filip´s dream is to make a significant contribution to diver safety by re-writing decompression schedules and designing better and more efficient dive computer software. Filip is keeping a scholarship diary of his diving adventures which can be read in Sport Diver magazine.
If you are a student with a passion for the underwater world, we invite you to learn more about the society´s internships and scholarships by contacting us on malta@oxygenediving.com or take a look at www.owuscholarship.org. You could be the next scholar!!!! Also the Oxygene Malta staff would like to take this opportunity to wish Filip the best of luck during this year and takes his newly learnt technical diving knowledge to new levels.
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New boat diving schedule
New boat diving schedule
Taking advantage of the fact that we are the only dive centre in Malta offering boat diving 7 days a week, a new boat diving schedule has just been launched offering our guests all the top rated wrecks on the Maltese Islands. The schedule includes dive sites that are only accessible by boat so you won´t have to put up with clouds of shore divers at one site. With 3 dives a day from the boat, a week´s worth of diving will give any diver a wide range of interesting dive sites that these clear, warm waters have to offer. Whether it´s our historical WWII aeroplanes and ships, our large mysterious caverns and caves, breathtakingly large walls and drop-offs, or the beautiful reefs with swim-throughs, arches and even memorial statues, there is something for everyone. So why not climb aboard and experience what the underwater world here in Malta has to offer!