{"id":1244,"date":"2018-05-28T11:29:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T09:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2018-05-28T11:38:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T09:38:46","slug":"returning-to-mgarr-ix-xini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/2018\/05\/28\/returning-to-mgarr-ix-xini\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning to Mgarr ix-Xini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Except for a dive that was called off after 20mins due to really poor visibility way back in December, I hadn&#8217;t yet taken the JJ for a proper spin in Mgarr ix-Xini. \u00a0Over the weekend, that changed as we headed to this lovely place early in the morning for a skills &amp; drills practice dive. \u00a0Here go a few pictures.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1251\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1251\" style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1251\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9443_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9443_s.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9443_s-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9443_s-768x491.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9443_s-2000x1278.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_9443_s-150x96.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">As calm as it gets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1255\" style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1255\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still31_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still31_s.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still31_s-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still31_s-768x423.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still31_s-2000x1101.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still31_s-174x96.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Descent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1256\" style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1256\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still34_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still34_s.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still34_s-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still34_s-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still34_s-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still34_s-171x96.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sun from underwater.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1252\" style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1252\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still01_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still01_s.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still01_s-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still01_s-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still01_s-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still01_s-171x96.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beams of sunlight dance in the water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1253\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1253\" style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still25_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still25_s.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still25_s-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still25_s-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still25_s-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still25_s-171x96.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surfacing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1254\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1254\" style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still27_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still27_s.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still27_s-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still27_s-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still27_s-2000x1125.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/still27_s-171x96.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the surface<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<script language='javascript' type='text\/javascript'>function getWR360PopupSkin(){return 'light_clean';}<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except for a dive that was called off after 20mins due to really poor visibility way back in December, I hadn&#8217;t yet taken the JJ for a proper spin in Mgarr ix-Xini. \u00a0Over the weekend, that changed as we headed to this lovely place early in the morning for a skills &amp; drills practice dive. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technical-diving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}