Treasure Island - A Blast of a Day!

On the 16^th of June, teams of local and foreign divers once again set out on a journey around some of Malta’s most popular dive sites and faced a number of obstacles and challenges whilst in search of several buried treasures.

The competing teams were given a booklet from which they had to solve a number of riddles in order to arrive at various check points around the islands. Teams were spotted searching for clues wearing full scuba kit in some of Malta’s best tourist attractions such as Popeye Village, the Malta Bird Park, the Upper Barakka Gardens and the Marsascala Family Park and admittedly this was quite fun to watch. Once the clues and riddles hidden at the various check points were found and solved, team members then had to journey across the island to dive sites such as Zonqor Point, Scorpion Cave and HMS Maori in order to retrieve the hidden treasures.

Along the way the participating members also had to participate in a photo challenge by providing a number of photographs performing stunts underwater. Teams were seen swimming along in pyjamas, eating traditional Maltese pastizzi underwater, playing musical instruments underwater and having a picnic underwater. Moreover, teams were also spotted posing in water features, on the traditional Maltese Karozzin as well as on a Luzzu.

This was the second edition of Treasure Island and once again the team received excellent feedback from the participating teams. “What a great way to bring the diving community together - highly recommended to any divers” and “we can’t wait to see what's in store for the next one” were a few of the comments received at the end of the day. The Take the Plunge edition was definitely bigger and tougher than the last but the teams showed extreme effort and great enthusiasm throughout the entire event especially when dancing the ‘Gangnam Style’ with Olive Oil at Popeye Village (Video at the bottom of page).

World Record Diving Malta would like to say a huge thanks to all those who participated in our event and thank you for helping us with our donation to the local voluntary organization the St.John’s Rescue Corps. A huge well done goes out to Team DiveMed, the twice-in-a-row winning team for Treasure Island. Congrats also to the teams who placed second and third – excellent team spirit everyone – you were great!!!

Finally a huge shout goes out to our sponsors for providing such delightful prizes for the winning teams, namely: The Corinthia St. George Hotel, M&A Diving Supplies Ltd and Henry J Beans Bar & Grill. 

Treasure Island will once again take place towards the end of the dive season- stay tuned if you wish to participate in the next edition for 2013. For more information on our upcoming treasure hunt events kindly visit www.facebook.com/WRDMaltaTreasureIsland.