Um El Faroud

The Um El Faroud is Malta's flagship wreck and carries real weight: a gas explosion aboard the Libyan tanker during dockyard maintenance in 1995 killed nine Maltese workers, and after three years alongside she was scuttled off Wied iz-Zurrieq in their memory as much as for divers. Winter storms later cracked her in two, which only improved the dive — the break lets light into the tank spaces and gives the 110-meter hull a dramatic wound to explore. Divers drop along her upright superstructure, cross the bridge and funnel, and meet the barracuda school that treats the mast as home. A memorial plaque asks for the respect the site deserves.

바로 그 순간: Full-size tanker on sand, the storm-split midships, resident barracuda school, moving backstory

지형: A 110 m tanker in two sections on clean sand at about 36 m, upright, off Malta's south coast

진입: Classic entry from the rocks at Wied iz-Zurrieq followed by a surface swim, or by boat; the shore route back involves a ladder exit and is best in calm seas.

위험 요소: Depth and distance from the entry point; interior spaces are extensive and for wreck-trained divers only.

보존: Treat the wreck as the memorial it partly is; take nothing and disturb nothing.

나이트록스: 여기서는 가치 있습니다 — 수치 범위상 나이트록스를 사용하면 무감압 시간을 의미 있게 연장할 수 있습니다(단, 관련 교육 이수 필요).