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Malta, 2-03-242 duiken gemaakt op de Faroud, rond en in het wrak
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C en S
Wat een gave start van het nieuwe jaar! Vandaag 2 duiken gemaakt hier, we waren de enige duikers. Erg tof met zoveel mogelijkheden.
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Peter Groeneveld
2de duik penetreren we het schip, smalle gangen en donker, dus lamp en buddy mee, mooiste duik op Malta. Toilet was wel heel erg vies
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Peter Groeneveld
Vanaf de kant naar toe gedoken en dat is heel goed te doen, 1ste duik de buiten kant verkennen voor we penetreren. Mooi schip in goede staat
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Peter Groeneveld
2de duik penetreren we het schip, smalle gangen en donker, dus lamp en buddy mee, mooiste duik op Malta. Toilet was wel heel erg vies
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Volgens de gids viel het zicht tegen. Verschillende nudi’s, kleine gewone murene, scorpioenvissen, vuur- & grote pauwkokerwormen etc.
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Ben Leermakers w. Corsair Diving Malta
2 Great dives on Faroud. Loads of small fish. Hunting Amberjacks / Tuna, several Moray Eels, Flabellinas, several Octopus in inlet
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Ben Leermakers w. Corsair Diving
Once more, great dive on the Faroud. Lost of life. Torpedo Ray ;-) Nudibranch and more. Wet drysuit, no 2nd dive. nPhoto: Kirsty-Jo Muddiman
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Ben Leermakers w. Corsair Diving
Nice dive to Faroud. Semi strong current on way back. Torpedo Ray, Moray Eel, Conger Eel, loads of nudibranch. nWet drysuit though. ;-)
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Amazing wreck... dive after dive it's never enough
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Ben Leermakers w. Corsair
Great dive. Big Conger eel. Moray eel. Octopus. MHunting Jacks. Big tunas hunting on deck. Sharp thermocline at 25 m. Many many small fish.
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Great 1st and 2nd dive in Malta
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Ben Leermakers w. Corsair Diving
Another great dive on the Faroud. Lots of fish, hunting Jacks, fairly big groupers, Flabellinas, Hermite Crabs. Moray Eels in inlet.
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Ben Leermakers w. Corsair Diving
Faroud never bores! 2 dives today. Milky water, sunshine-bloom. Fairly big Groupers and Jacks, Moray, 100 Flabellinas. Cuttlefish on reef.
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Ben Leermakers w. Corsair Diving
Second dive today. Overall temp 15 degrees. Loads and loads of egg laying flabellinas on the Faroud. Visibility was not that good today.
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Malta
The Um El-Faroud lies broken into two pieces, 150 meters off the coast of Wied iz-Zurrieq and is marked with a yellow cardinal buoy during high season. The vessel is 109 meters long and weighs 10,000 tons. A heavy explosion in tank 3 on the night of 3 February 1995 killed 9 people and took her out of service and a great dive wreck was born when it was scuttled in 1998. Entering water by giant stride. On the way to the wreck you will probably see the dive helmet that was placed on the bottom to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the local Maltese divers club, Atlam Divers Club. After the dive you will exit by ladder or boat ramp. Many divers tend to do their night dives in the inlet because of the abundance of life that can be seen then.
Particulars
During high season the wreck is marked with a yellow cardinal buoy. Type: Tanker. Freight: Fuel. Weight: 10,000 tons. Length: 109 m. Width: 15.5 m. Height: 22 m. Lowest deck: 25 m. Boatyard: Smith Dock Co. Ltd, Middlesbrough, UK. Shipping company: General National Maritime Transport Company, Tripoli. Parking at lower level is reserved for dive centers.
Warnings
Due to the size of the wreck you can forget bottom time and possible strong current on the way back so regularly check your air supply to make sure you have enough air for your return. Think about using a 15 liter cylinder. Choppy water can make exiting c
UM EL FAROUD Features
- Nicknames
- Blue Grotto, Wied iz-Zurrieq, UEF, Farud
- Address
- Triq Congreve, Wied iz-Zurrieq, Malta
- Parking
- Sufficient parking
- Distance
- 10 min.
- Suitable for
- Day out with the family, underwater photography, wreck divers
- Permit
- N.v.t. / NA
- Access
- 10 min. swimming to wreck or pay a local fisherman to drop you off, stairs or ladder, giant stride
- Facilities
- Accessible toilet, restaurants, toilets, small shop, bus stop, mobile ice cream parlor
- Water
- Salt
- Tide
- N.v.t.
- Kind of dive
- Shore dive, night dive, wreck dive, deep dive (30m+)
- Current
- Limited, strong, variable
- Visibility
- 10 - 30 m.
- Average visibility
- 20 m.
- Depth
- 36 m.
- Bottom
- rifwand, rotsen, zand en zeegras
- Life
- Barracuda, scorpionfish, regular sea urchins, moray, common octopus, grouper, tuna, mediterranean cardinalfish or king of the mullets, sea hare, brown meagre
- Other recreation
- Rambling, swimming and snorkeling, paid boat trip to Blue Grotto
- Emergency
- 112
UM EL FAROUD Photos and Images
UM EL FAROUD Log Report Images
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