UM EL FAROUD MALTA. - 38 meters.

Um El Faroud was a 10,000 ton Libyan owned single screw motor tanker,
She was built in 1969 England and was owned by the General National Maritime Transport Company, Tripoli. She had been operating between Italy and Libya carrying refined fuel up to 1 February 1995, Lenght 115 meters  & 15 meters wide 3,147gt vessel.
 On 3 February 1995 she was docked at No.3 Dock of Malta dry docks. During the night of 3 February an explosion occurred in No.3 center tank and nine shipyard workers lost their lives and 11 were injured in the exploson that could be heard over the island,

She was then declared irreparable and her faith was to be scuttled for divers off blue grotto wied iz zurrieq, So on the morning of 2nd September 1998 she was towed into position and around 3.30pm she slipped silently beneath the waves to start her new home on the sea bed, she then rested on the sand upright at 35 meters,The propeler and rudder are still in place and make good photos, in 2004 Malta was hit by major storms that closed down the island for just over 10 days Nov/DEC, and oh boy were divers in for a suprise to find the wreck was now in 2 sections were she split midship and moved about 3 meters away from each other, just goes to show how power full the sea can be to move this ship, but now it has opened more options for divers as it has made her easier for divers to swim between her tanks.

Teaming with flora & soft sponges all over from bow to stern, with shoals of barracuda making it there home during the summer months,and squid in the winter time laying the eggs as they hang like pearl beads, Amberjacks are also home to the wreck along with spin lobsters down in the depth of her corridors, were ever i seam to turn there is always something new to show divers and i must have done over 500 dives on the wreck.


This dive is for Advance level divers or above
its about 8-10 min swim out to the wreck and you must calculate for currents on this dive and on every dive,as you could swim out to her and it would be a perfect dive till its time to get back and you cant due to very strong current,you could be luck and have the current drag you back which is always a bonus 12 ltr or even 15 ltr tanks are always advised on this dive no matter how good you think you are!

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