Starfish Diving School - Our Partner Company!

World Record Diving Malta will once again be hosting our cold water challenge at Starfish Diving School, situated in the Marina Hotel at the Corinthia Beach Resort and in the Corinthia Hotel St George’s Bay. Starfish Diving School has provided top quality diving holidays in Malta since summer 2002 and offers a full range of Recreational Diving Courses by PADI from absolute beginners up to training for would-be instructors. The school is also being recognized as a TDI Facility and offers the full range of TDI courses from Basic Nitrox to Advanced Trimix.

 

 

Starfish organizes daily diving trips to the neighbouring islands of Gozo and also has access to swimming pools for training, both at the Marina Hotel as well as at the Corinthia St.George Hotel, and is immediately on the seafront of St.George’s Bay for easy access to boat diving. Whether your interests are Wreck Diving, Night Diving, Boat Diving or you are simply a beginner, Starfish Diving School caters for all your wishes.

 

Diving is available every day of the week throughout the year, at times to suit your schedule. Whether you just wish to make a single dive or multiple dives, from shore or by boat, Starfish can provide you with exactly the service you require! For more information kindly visit: www.starfishdiving.com

Corinthia Hotel St. George's Bay to host WRDMalta team

During the days building up to the March 2013 Cold Water Challenge as well as during the event, the World Record Diving Malta team will be staying on site at the Corinthia Hotel – St George’s Bay.

 

Located at the tip of a rocky peninsula and with picture postcard views from every window, the Corinthia Hotel St George’s Bay is the epitome of relaxed Mediterranean living. A unique combination of the epic Maltese history, divine Mediterranean Sea views, five star amenities and the classic Corinthia St. George’s Bay design is guaranteed to please. The grand façade of the hotel promises a magic that continues throughout the grand lobby, sweeping views, inviting terraces and stylish rooms. The large choice of restaurants and nightlife provide a vibrant counterpoint to simply enjoying Malta from the terrace of each room.

 

 

The St. George's Bay sandy beach and the centre of Malta's vibrant nightlife are withing walking distance. The hotel offers a selection of restaurants with a focus on Mediterranean cuisine. Guests may choose to have dinner by the pool or to the sound of lapping waves.

 

The Apollo Day Spa offers beauty, wellness, and relaxation therapies, and includes a fitness centre, indoor heated pool, and sauna. The hotel has a full water sports centre and diving centre, and on-site private yacht hire and sailing facilities. The Starfish Diving Centre within the Corinthia Beach Resort, St George’s Bay offers a variety of diving services from basic trial dives to the advanced courses and certification, night and boat dives etc. Corinthia Hotel St. George's Bay also features five outdoor pools, an outdoor children's pool, a volleyball court, and private rocky beach and jetty.

 

Mediterranean luxury - Inspired Design - Indulge your senses at the Corinthia St George’s Bay. For more information kindly visit www.corinthia.com

Cold Water Challenge at The Marina Hotel at the Corinthia Beach Resort

The World Record Diving Malta Cold Water Challenge will take place at no other than Starfish Diving School, situated in the Marina Hotel at the Corinthia Beach Resort, St Julians – Malta. The Marina Hotel at the Corinthia Beach Resort boasts an advantageous position overlooking the striking bay area of St. George's, with its colourful fishermen's boats and the great expanse of the crystal clear blue Mediterranean Sea, it offers unsurpassed panorama.
 

 Discover..

Part of the Corinthia Beach Resort the Marina Hotel has a private beach club with easy sea access and a fully equipped water sports center right next door. The breakfast buffet is guaranteed to satisfy all tastes with Maltese specialties such as pastizzi and ricotta cheese pies thrown into the Full English Breakfast and Continental mix. The hotel has no less than eight options for dining from the beautiful views of the Bay View Restaurant to the Al Fresco option of the Bay View Terrace and its roofed in half, the Bay View Lounge, the traditional French bistro the Vinotheque, Italian Da Marina, the quick options available all day long at Café 24, the Pool Bar for waterside snacking and last but certainly not least the excellent Escape Club with its unique atmosphere and luscious nibbles. 

 

Explore …

The Marina Hotel is only five minutes walking from the beach and five minutes walking from the nightlife town of Paceville which offers cinema’s, shops and bars. A free shuttle leaves the hotel for Sliema, St. Julian’s, Valletta & the Marsa Golf Club as well and the bus stops right outside the hotel. For the determined souls who manage to pull themselves away from the built in entertainment at the hotel, the highlights of the vibrant Maltese archipelago await. The seven tiny islands of Malta have a vivacious history and interested guests can continue to explore it through the food, art and ‘festas’. Revel in the juxtaposition of taking a jeep safari to the oldest free standing structure in the world, watch the fresh fish arriving on the docks ready for dinner, take a little retail therapy (only a short courtesy bus drive away) in modern Sliema or simply relax on the age old island of Gozo.

 

Imagine …

Calming neutrals accented with fresh Mediterranean jewel tones are offset by a cool tiled floor. The Marina Hotel boasts spacious bedrooms with generous windows and beautiful views. Artwork has been carefully chosen to enhance each colour scheme and every room. All the rooms have seating areas and dressing tables with adequate lighting both natural and from carefully positioned lamps. 

 

Experience …

Standard features within all the rooms include mini-bar, Wi-fi Internet access, safe, air-conditioning, central heating, cable/satellite TV, luxury bathroom and sea view balcony. Rooms are available with twin or double beds and we have a selection of non-smoking and interconnecting rooms. Languages spoken at the hotel include English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Arabic. 
 

 

We are World Record Diving Malta are delighted to be given the opportunity to host our event at The Marina Hotel at the Corinthia Beach Resort and highly recommend this hotel to locals as well as foreigners; both divers and non-divers! Lovely hotel, excellent location and wonderful staff! For more information visit http://www.marinahotel.com.mt

Aqualung - Third Manufacturer to Support WRD!!

World Record Diving Malta is delighted to announce that AQUALUNG will be the third dive manufacturer supporting the team during our upcoming events by supplying us with various diving equipment.

Since 1943, AQUALUNG has been a leader in manufacturing equipment for adventure, fitness and safety whether in the water, on land or in the air. Each of their brands service the specific needs of demanding customers through product innovation, worldwide distribution and customer service.

AQUALUNG is the name that first introduced the world to Scuba diving more than 60 years ago when Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Émile Gagnan developed the first "Aqua-Lung." The excitement and adventurous spirit of that first dive continues today and is reflected in Aqua Lung's dedication to quality and innovation. We at World Record Diving Malta believe that AQUALUNGS’ products are not only affordable, but also immensely reliable and comfortable, therefore we could not be happier to have the following being supplied to us:

·    Micromasks - a revolution in mask design. Its innovative, patented structure makes it possible for the lenses to fit in the ocular orbit seamlessly into your field of vision, while its patented cardanic double joint buckles rotate both up-and-down and in-and-out to provide maximum adaptability and comfort. While scuba divers love it, it is sure to be a favourite amongst the free diving community.

 

 

 

·     Slingshot Fins – The innovative Slingshot has been engineered for effortless power and speed with unmatched comfort. The mid-foot flex joint transfers the power from our entire leg to the blade relieving pressure from your toes and ankles. The power bands releases energy with each stroke, adding power and momentum to your kick with less effort. Finally, the three-speed gear shift customizes your speed-to-effort ratio to fit your specific dive conditions.

 

AQUALUNG will also be providing semi-dry hoods and gloves, as well as other back up equipment for the entire team to use during the cold water record attempt which will be held on Saturday 9^th of March 2013 at 20h00 at Starfish Diving School, The Marina Hotel – Corinthia Beach Resort.  

Apeks, Aqualung & Whites Diving will be supporting World Record Diving Malta in collaboration with local distributor M&A Diving Supplies Ltd - which started off as a family business in 1968 and has since devloped into the main distributor for scuba related products on the Maltese Islands - a hub for scuba diving in the Mediterranean. M&A Diving Supplies Ltd offer a balance between price, service and quality whilst also striving to supply goods directly from their warehouse, avoiding unneccessary delays.

We at World Record Diving Malta could not have asked for four better companies to jump on board and we are extremely proud to be working alongside these leading international enterprises.

APEKS backing WRDMalta for 2013 events!

Going back as far as I can remember to the early days of my diving career, I recall that I have personally always used APEKS regulators when diving. From time to time however, working at different dive centres, I have tried and used several different brands of regulators. Nonetheless, I have always found myself to be much more comfortable and confident using APEKS regulators hands down and I am certain that the WRDMalta dive team would highly agree with me on this. For this reason, I am more than ecstatic to announce that APEKS will be supporting us during all of our 2013 events and we at World Record Diving Malta are thrilled about this!

APEKS began manufacturing 39 years ago with one goal - to make the best diving equipment in the world. Through constant innovation and development, Apeks has grown into a major player in the diving industry, making more regulators for UK divers than any other manufacturer and exporting more than 85% of equipment around the globe.  The company's design, development, manufacturing and production processes use the latest technology and state of the art equipment.

APEKS regulators have been tested by the world's leading authorities on regulator performance and consistently come at the top in independent performance tests throughout the world. For example, Bjarte Vestol has taken the TX100 to the limits of diver endurance in cold waters and John Bennett will forever hold the record as the first ever diver to dive deeper than 300 metres or 1,000 feet. APEKS were the only regulators both men would trust for their dives down to such incredible depths and they had previously tested most regulators on the market. They used over 25 APEKS regulators, every single one of which worked perfectly- giving gas when breathing heavily, being well protected against freezing, and extremely reliable and tough! Bjarte Vestol and John Bennett put their trust in APEKS TX100 for their record breaking deep diving adventures and we at World Record Diving Malta plan on doing the same!

APEKS will be supplying World Record Diving Malta with the following equipment for use during 2013:

-       WTX Series System - APEKS have now introduced the WTX Series; a selection of harnesses, buoyancy cells and accessories that will certainly appeal to today’s technical divers. These fine products offer unparalleled versatility through their modularity. The components can be assembled into a highly technical rig for those trained to push the limits or scaled down to make a travel friendly rig that any diver would want to use.

 

-       APEKS TEK3 Regulators - designed for use with twin cylinder configuration. The system benefits from streamlined hoses with little chance of accidental snagging and also improved ease of access to cylinder valves. Each 1st stage has 3 medium pressure ports and one high pressure port. They are balanced, cold water compatible and extremely robust.

 

-       APEKS XTX50 Regulators (Sidemount Configuration) – With side-mounting of tanks seemingly the new trend, Apeks has now produced a set of regulators bound to become the favourite for side-mount divers. This consists of two XTX50 DIN regulators with five medium-pressure ports on swivel turrets. One regulator has a 210cm hose, while the other 60cm long. There are two short mp inflation hoses, one intended for the diver’s drysuit and the other for BC inflation. There are two pressure gauges on 15cm hoses, one elbow fitting for a second stage hose, together with a stainless-steel piston-clip and bungee necklace for the other as well as two exchange compact exhaust ports.

 

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- OTS / APEKS Guardian FFS Full Face Mask - developed for sports and technical diving, this will be used during our record attempt for the majority of the time spent underwater. The advantages of a full face mask over conventional regulators include - protection in ectreme environments; reduction in jaw fatigue on longer dives; more comfort in extremely cold environments and underwater communication - all extremely importants considerations when attempting a cold water duration dive.

  

We are all extremely excited to get into the water and start using all the new equipment being sent over to us from APEKSwhom we are honoured to have supporting us at World Record Diving Malta. With less than a month to go now, intense training will soon begin, so follow this spot for constant updates on what’s going on as we build up to the day of the event!!

WHITES Drysuits supporting WRDMalta for 2013

World Record Diving Malta is ecstatic to announce that Whites Drysuits- Canada will be supporting our team for all of 2013 by supplying us with Whites Fusion Bullet Drysuit, along with the Whites Fusion under garment to be used during our record attempts, training, competition events as well as any other dive occasions. Below is just some information on Whites Drysuits and the products that they will be supplying us with.

 

Frank White Senior founded Whites in 1956. It was the first wetsuit manufacturing company in Canada, and first drysuit manufacturing company in North America. Over half a century later the company still continues to set the standard for professional Drysuits. Whites now manufactures and designs Drysuits for Military, Public Safety, Commercial, and Recreational markets around the world. Whites joined the Aqua Lung family of companies in 2010.

Fusion FIT is the first Fusion to use a skin specifically designed to fit women properly. Anatomically correct panels constructed out of super stretch neoprene ensure maximum streamlining and mobility. Gator tech armour on the knees and reinforced seams ensure maximum durability originally designed for the Special Forces, the Fusion Bullet is engineered for the harshest diving environments. Super stretch neoprene allows ultimate flexibility and streamlining while strategically placed Gator Tech armour and reinforced seams ensure maximum durability.

 

FEATURES   Bullet seams are mauser taped and 6 thread sewn for maximum stretch and durability. Includes 2 Twin-Zip expandable pockets,  Rugged Gator Tech neoprene on the knees, elbows, shoulders and buttocks extends the life of the skin for use in the most extreme dive conditions. Removable 2mm neoprene inserts at the elbows and knees provide cushioning.  Super stretch neoprene provides extreme stretch for maximum flexibility.

The streamlining outer layer of the Fusion works in conjunction with the inner drycore to create a unique hydrodynamic effect by reducing frictional drag and turbulence. This creation of laminar flow over your body results in a faster more agile diving suit requiring less energy. The Fusion two layer system offers mobility never before achieved in a wetsuit or traditional drysuit. The high stretch outer skin contours fits the loose fitting inner dry core to the curves of your body allowing unrestricted movement. The DryCORE Technology provides a dry barrier against the elements. Match your thermal undergarment to the conditions just like traditional dry suits, layering up or down. The Fusion has you covered from ice diving to the tropics!

Thermal Fusion, a high performance diving undergarment, maximizes warmth, and provides unrivalled flexibility and fit. Designed by divers, the Thermal Fusion was rigorously tested by professionals to ensure the highest level of comfort and warmth. Proven by science, independent laboratory tests by the Sport Innovation Center (SPIN) validate the superior insulation value of the Thermal Fusion. Cold water immersion and controlled cold weather environmental tests determined effectiveness in protecting skin and core temperatures. Comparative testing against our competitor’s top rated undergarment confirms superiority. The science proves that the Thermal Fusion performed best overall in preventing heat loss in extreme environments.

 

 

We at World Record Diving Malta are honoured to have Whites Drysuits supporting us this year and cannot wait to jump in the water and start training with the new suits!!