Looking for an underwater adventure? Then we've got just the place for you. Off the coast of Malta is a beautiful diving spot that lets divers experience the thrill of swimming next to a scuttled shipwreck and a statue of Jesus.
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00:00Thank you for listening.
00:30It's actually one of only two places in Malta that you can see the religious statue.
00:36One is the Madonna in Chikawa and then this one is the Statue of Jesus.
00:42The wreck and the statue are underwater purposely sunk for divers as attractions.
01:00It's of significance for the divers.
01:12A lot of the divers here, they'll touch the forehead of the Christ and there's a little
01:31sort of bald spot on his head.
01:33They touch that for luck.
01:34Well, Malta gets 160,000 divers a year.
01:45Not everyone can actually dive this site.
01:47You need to be at least advanced open water with a deep specialty because she's 36 meters
01:54to the floor.
01:55But she attracts a lot of people.
01:57I mean, some days there'll be 20 to 30 divers a day during summer.
02:01One of the funniest things I've ever seen on the statue is two very large urchins that had
02:12actually grown under the armpits of Jesus.
02:14And it looked like he had extremely hairy armpits.
02:27It's a very peaceful dive site.
02:29There's a lot of fish around the area and it's very, very scenic.
02:33It's like a horseshoe shape with the statue in the middle on white sand and you have these
02:38nice reefs around you.
02:40It's a very, very peaceful site.