In large part due to the selective focus of the film industry, the Second World War is often viewed as a conflict between Britain and Germany, with American intervention saving the day, and it's often forgotten that many other nations...
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Many ships had a part to play in the Mediterranean conflicts of the First and Second World Wars, and many of them were lost with little more recognition than a note in a diary somewhere. Some of the bigger battleships...
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Many of the most famous military wrecks that are visited by divers are from the Second World War, but the First World War was the first major conflict in Europe in which steel-hulled battleships were deployed, and Malta as much...
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HMS Southwold has been dived for some years but was brought under the protection of Heritage Malta's Underwater Cultural Heritage Unit (UCHU) in May 2019 as a wreck of particular historical significance. As such, diving the ship is now only permitted when...
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A new report from the Marine Megafauna Foundation highlights the impact that marine microplastics are having on large filter-feeders such as manta rays and whale sharks. Large filter-feeders swallow thousands of cubic meters of plankton-filled water every day as they...
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The Mediterranean saw some of the most intense fighting of the Second World War, and the Allied island outpost of Malta was subjected to a relentless bombing campaign which saw several thousand aircraft shot down over Maltese waters. In the...
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Octopuses, squids and their cephalopod cousins have haunted the human imagination for centuries. Their long, unfurling arms and temperamental behavior have inspired legends, from the Kraken of Norse mythology to the giant Japanese Akkorokamui that supposedly lurks at the bottom of the ocean, waiting...
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Malta is one of the most popular destinations in the world for wreck divers. As a British and Allied Mediterranean stronghold during the First and Second World Wars, a staggering amount of tonnage was sunk around Malta's shores and those...
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The Twilight Zone… No, it is neither the name of a fancy new Disneyland attraction nor the sequel of a famous teenage vampire movie. It is actually the unscientific way of referring to a very peculiar place in our Oceans....
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Corals in the Maldives are showing some resilience, adaptability and even recovery from climate-change effects, according to marine biologist Dr Jean-Luc Solandt, following a reef-monitoring diving expedition, the latest in a series undertaken over each of the past nine years....
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