LETS GO DIVING!

Maltese architecture has been influenced by many different Mediterranean cultures and British architecture over its history. The Neolithic temple builders 3800–2500 BC endowed the numerous temples of Malta and Gozo with intricate bas relief designs, including spirals evocative of the tree of life and animal portraits, designs painted in red ochre, ceramics, and a vast collection of human form sculptures, particularly the Venus of Malta.

Scuba diving in Malta, Gozo and Comino is rated as the Top 5 European destination by the diving magazines. You will be diving in clear warm waters offering a visibility of 40m at its best, a variety of great dive sites with easy access, a sea temperature as high as 29 .C in summer together with an interesting array of marine life from sea horses to barracuda.

Now you can come and join World Record Diving Malta at Starfish Diving School in the heart of St George's Bay within 20 minutes distance of all the best dive sites in Malta namely the famous Faroud, the Rozi or the p29. If wrecks are not for you we have stunning reefs down to 30meters within meters of the shore to suit every level of diver from open water to tek diver. If you are an individual or a group we can cater for you or your group’s needs. Finally, our school is also with in the grounds of the Marina Hotel - Corinthia Beach Resort/    

Daily Diving

1 Dive € 28.00 
2 Dives / 1 day  € 55.00   
6 Dives / 3 days € 162.50     
10 Dives / 5 days €250.00

Prices include tanks, weights, dive guide and dive site transport around Malta.

Or groups bigger than 10 on the 10 dive package €2250.00

We also cater for technical divers on request.

www.starfishdiving.com

You win some, you lose some!

Good Morning Everybody!!

Sean is now fully recovered and already wanting to get back in the water for a dive again!! Sorry for the delay in updating you on what's been going on but the team has been immensely busy over the past few days, so here goes...

 

The first report made by the divers back to land support during the cold water challenge was that the bottom sea temperature was fluctuating between 14/15 degrees. Baring in mind that Guinness stipulate that in order for the record to be accepted the temperature must be 14.9 degrees or lower, the team agreed that even though GWR  might not have accepted our dive as a world record, we would still carry on with the event regardless. The World Record Diving Malta team came together with the scope of promoting Malta as an ideal destination for divers, promoting the sport of scuba diving as well as raising environmental awareness and finally bringing the diving community together for team building and fun activities; and so the team all agreed to carry on with the dive and do just that.

However, as you all know, only a few hours after Sean got in the water for the cold water challenge, he became aware that water was slowly seeping into his drysuit. The amount of water seeping in increased drastically and he was sitting in water from the waist down. Baring in mind that Sean was extremely warm wearing a heated vest as well as the excellent Whites Fusion under-suit, the sudden rush of cold water into the suit caused his body temperature to fluctuate too quickly resulting in Hypothermic shock.

Therefore, Sean and the safety divers with him at the time agreed that the dive should be aborted. Sean was dragged out of the water in shivering fits by the St. John Rescue Corps who performed exceptionally with getting Sean out of the water safe. Sean was treated with first aid and oxygen, warmed up and sent to the hospital by ambulance, where he was treated for hypothermia and kept under surveillance for several hours through to morning.

World Record Diving Malta would like to say a huge thanks to the St. John Rescue Corps for their help and support throughout the event. We were extremely overwhelmed by their performance and orginisational skills while helping the divers in and out of the water and doing such a great job with getting Sean safely out of the water. We would like to continue encouraging donations to them which can be done by visiting www.stjohnrescuecorps.org.
 

 

Since then, the team has taken a look at the drysuit used by Sean during the event in order to try and decipher where the leak was coming from. We have found that the problem was not with the dry suit itself or with any of the kit sponsored by our supporting organisations but with a leaking electric switch which was connected to the heating system worn by Sean for the event. This was a technical problem which unfortunately could not be foreseen and no one is to blame for.

 

Admittedly Sean was disappointed by what happened however he still has a smile on his face and the first thing he said the next morning morning was "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" and he believes that this event contributed towards his training for upcoming events and he is already talking about plans for his next record attempt.

 

The team not at all downhearted by what happened during the cold water challenge, are all the way behind Sean and spent the day in the water yesterday at Starfish Diving School, Marina Hotel at the Corinthia Beach Resort cleaning up the seabed from any debris found as was planned to do during the record dive. The team retrieved a variety of debris such as empty plastic bottles, glass bottles, parts of sunbeds, parts of fireworks, metal poles, etc. We would like to say a special thanks to Green Skips Malta for providing us with skips for the clean-up.  

 

World Record Diving Malta would once again like to thank our sponsors for their constant support the whole year through: Starfish Diving School, Corithia St.George Hotel, The Marina Hotel -Corinthia Beach Resort, M&A Diving Supplies Ltd, Apeks, Aqualung and Whites Drysuits.  For more information on upcoming events please continue to visit our blog.

Live from the Jetty !!

It's been an immensely intense couple of days on site at Starfish Diving School, Marina Hotel at the Corinthia Beach Resort. The team has been on site everyday trying out new kit courtesy of M&A Diving Supplies Malta - local distributor for Apeks, Aqualung and Whites Drysuits. Moreover, divers have been training whilst also setting up base camp with banners, lines, surface markers etc. Land support have also contributed greatly by being on site throughout the entire weekend and putting everything in place. 

After a busy day on site, the team met up on the jetty at 8.00pm when divers Adrian Zobel and Mark Lyon entered the water to take cylinders down to base camp in preparation for Sean's arrival on the sea bed. 

St.John Rescue Corps is supporting the event and are currently on site with first aid equipment, water rescue equipment, fire prevention equipment, transportation transit vehicle, road traffic collision transit, fire trucks and 4x4's. During the event the St John Rescue Divers will be helping the WRDMalta dive team by visiting and monitoring Sean on the seabed. Moreover, St,John's will be performing demonstrations tomorrow on fire fighting, etc. 

 

Now live from the Starfish Jetty, Sean has been in the water for over an hour already. We are thrilled to have been blessed with wonderful weather and favourable conditions and thus all the team is highly motivated and in high spirits. 

Divers James Norris and Ian Warwick will be spending 2 hours with Sean while he is settling in. To follow are divers Andrea Cacciatore and Danjel Attard who will accompay Sean for a further 2 hours. During this time, the clean up will commence in order to keep Sean and the team occupied during the cold hours of the night. 

Follow this spot for more updates as we progress through the World Record Diving Cold Water Challenge 2013.

Less than 24 hours to go!!!

Here we go... it's that time again when the nerves begin to kick in!!! It's been a busy week here in Malta with the final preparations, training and attending interviews for this weekends upcoming world record event at Starfish Diving School, Marina Hotel at the Corinthia Beach Resort.

The World Record Diving Malta team has been invited to several local television shows as well as radio stations in order to discuss all that goes on behind the scenes for our events, what the roles of each team member entail and what the scope behind our activities truly is. We would like to say a special thanks to NET TV's Sport Extra and The Breakfast Show for having us on their show, as well as to XFM's Steve Hili on the Le Meridien Big Breakfast Show!

 

The team is now practically living on site at The Corinthia St.George Hotel who have kindly supplied us with accommodation, meals, etc for the entire duration of the event!! The past two days have been spent setting up the site and testing all the awesome kit that has been sent to us from Apeks, Aqualung and Whites Diving courtesy of local distributor M&A Diving Supplies. Once again, a huge huge thanks goes out to all these companies for their help and support throughout the past few weeks.

Although it has been an immensely intense couple of weeks, the team has had a blast and there were quite a lot of giggles involved especially during the shooting of the promo video. The biggest thanks from my part goes out to the team of safety divers and land support for their constant support and co-operation during the entire year buidling up to the event.

Finally, World Record Diving Malta would like to encourage donations to the St.John Rescue Corp which can be done by visiting the following link :http://www.stjohnrescuecorps.org/ or by sending a blank sms to the following:
50617367 - €2.33
50618073 - €4.66
50618912 - €7.00
Let's help these guys save lives!!!

All those wishing to join in are more than welcome to do so. The dive will commence tomorrow (Sat 9th March) at 20h00 at Starfish Diving School, St.George's Bay - we hope to see you all there!!!

 

Watch this blog for regular updates on the teams progress over the next 2 days !!! GO TEAM LET'S SMASH THIS!!!

St. John's Rescue Corps on site during Cold Water Challenge

The St John Rescue Corps is a uniformed voluntary organisation, operating in civil protection and humanitarian aid. Its volunteer members are trained in basic rescue techniques (both land based and water based) as well as advanced rescue such as fire fighting and high angle rescue. It's mission statement is "To provide Malta with a support civil protection unit consisting of adult volunteers fully trained in rescue and first aid".

The Corps rescue divers and members will be supporting the World Record Diving Malta team in their upcoming cold water challenge on the 9th of March at Starfish Diving School by standing by to provide assistance both on land and at sea. Moreover during the event, the St. John's Rescue Corps will be giving short demonstrations on rescue scenarios for the public to watch.

World Record Diving Malta would like to strongly encourage donations to the Corps. Anyone wishing to donate may do so by sending an SMS to one of these numbers: 50617367 (€2.33) 50618073 (€4.66) 50618912 €7.00), or sending a contribution by mail to St John Rescue Corps, Fort Madalena, Madliena Hill, Madliena, MALTA. http://www.stjohnrescuecorps.org