Safer swimming at Blue Lagoon
A temporary pontoon has been installed at the Blue Lagoon to ensure the safety of swimmers and embarking or disembarking passengers. As a result, the swimming zone has been extended past the sandy beach, where it is delineated by marker buoys.
Blue Lagoon is one of three assigned swimmers' zones in Comino and one of the most delicate areas due to the high influx of swimmers and boats, Malta Maritime Authority chief executive officer Stanley Portelli said.
He said the constant increase in the number of boats visiting the area prompted the authority to install this pontoon to allow safer mooring for people embarking and disembarking at Comino. Anchoring areas have also been designated by yellow marker buoys, which flash at night.
"We are conscious of the fact that during the busy summer months, swimmers and boats have to co-exist in a limited space. Our role through the annual safety at sea campaign seeks to ensure this happens effectively and securely," he said.
The pontoon will be dismantled at the end of summer.
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Joseph E Briffa
Jul 10th 2009, 13:17
I fully agree with J Bugeja...The Blue Lagoon should be a NO GO area for boats of any size or power and should be reserved for swimming ONLY. Boats should go to other bays. Hope the authorise will wake up and be more assertive. The Maltese are not used to discipline and one has to use a firm hand with them. They are spoiled brats as they practically always had it good.
J. Bugeja
Jul 10th 2009, 11:13
About time! Last year I went to Blue lagoon And Big large boats kept on coming full of tourists. Leaving patches of diesel in the nice blue sea,,, And barely leaving space for swimming, This thing Happened again when I went this year and felt utterly disgusted that no one is doing anyhting to save such a paradise... I think that access for boats in the blu lagoon should be completely removed and left only for swiming. And in order to acces comino boats do not stop in the blu lagoon but in the outer areas.