{"id":85578,"date":"2026-08-10T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/diver-dies-while-working-off-st-pauls-islands\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T11:32:00","slug":"diver-dies-while-working-off-st-pauls-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/diver-dies-while-working-off-st-pauls-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Diver dies while working off St Paul\u2019s Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diver dies while working off St Paul\u2019s Islands<\/p>\n<p>A diver has died while he was working in the waters off St Paul&rsquo;s Islands, police said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that the victim was a 41-year-old man who lives in Rabat.<\/p>\n<p>He has been named by TVM as Redeemer Grima.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were informed of the situation at around midday.&nbsp; Police said that the diver was brought ashore by the Armed Forces of Malta at the quay in Bugibba.<\/p>\n<p>A medical team assisted him, but he was certified dead a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Monica Borg Galea is leading an inquiry while investigations by the police and the Occupational Health and Safety Authority are also ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>RSS Feed Source: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2026-08-10\/local-news\/Diver-dies-while-working-off-St-Paul-s-Islands-6736292026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diver dies while working off St Paul\u2019s Islands<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diver dies while working off St Paul\u2019s Islands A diver has died while he was working in the waters off St Paul&rsquo;s Islands, police said in a statement on Monday. Police said that the victim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-85578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}