P R E S E RV E & P R O T E C T UCHU (Underwater Cultural Heritage Unit) and Heritage Malta have introduced a set of rules and regulations for diving historical shipwrecks, to ensure dives are managed to preserve and protect the incredible historic dive sites. For a number of years, systematic underwater archaeological research has been conducted off the coasts of the Maltese Islands, resulting in important underwater cultural heritage being discovered, mapped and studied. The historical wreck sites discovered range from a 2,700 year-old Phoenician shipwreck, the oldest in the central Mediterranean, to WWI battleships, and dozens of aircraft crash sites.
The Government of Malta created the UCHU within Heritage Malta, which is the national agency for the management of Malta’s cultural heritage collections, sites and museums, to create underwater archaeological parks that will protect the islands’ important underwater heritage. The protected dive sites can only be visited by arrangement with a dive centre appointed by UCHU.
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