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.
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