In Greece, diving was banned in 1999-2001. So the wrecks were inaccessible unless you wanted to take a risk by doing an illegal, reckless dive with the risk of being caught and chased away.......

Fish-bottle dealers, antique smugglers and Indians were never our style. We always operated within the framework of legality and that is what we would continue to do.

Our need to find ourselves in a different environment led us to investigate where closer to us there were wrecks of all types of ships and at all depths. Malta, the Red Sea and Scotland.... Cyprus had one good wreck, the huge Zenobia, but I had dived into that many times from 1998 to 2001.

Since no school or group had gone to Malta in an organized way, we decided to organize a group and fly to Malta to explore the Maltese Shipwrecks.

In collaboration with Joy Tours we flew to Malta and arrived in the capital Valletta. We headed to and stayed at the Cavalieri hotel in the seaside and tourist area of Saint Juliens.

Our collaboration with the Strand Divers diving center was excellent and in the days that followed our dives were exciting. From the imposing tanker Um El Faroud, the submarine U-boat to the caves of the Comino area and the famous Blue Hole.

Our large group had an amazing time, some of the people who participated in the mission were George Petrou, Thanasis Nikolaopoulos, John Parry, Ariadne Lambrou-Bletsa, Kostas Serpanos, Christos Bletsas, Angelos Tassopoulos, Prokopis Gioyikas, Stelios Pitsinos, Dimitris Antoniadis, Periklis Papadakis, Spyros Kympouropoulos.