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Malta, statue of the Christ under water at
a depth of 40 m.
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Near Malta's Marine Park, in two kilometers from
the coast there is Jesus Christ's well-known underwater Maltese
statue.
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Jesus Christ's well-known underwater Maltese statue was executed
by the known Maltese sculptor of Alfred Camilleri Cauchi.
Works on design and production of an underwater statue of Jesus Christ were estimated in 1000 of the Maltese liras
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The committee of divers authorized Alfred Camilleri Cauchi
for performance of this work in honor of celebration
of visit of Malta in 1990 for the first time Pope John Pavel of II. Jesus Christ's statue was made and originally drowned in 1990 on Malta about Sacred Pavel's islands
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The three-meter underwater Maltese giant of Kristu l-Bahhar
with the raised head stretches up the hands from
thirty eight-meter depths and looks in the direction of St. Paul's islands.
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The statue not always was here. Earlier it
was at a sea depth about Sacred Pavel's islands
but because there are some operating fish farms, divers began to complain of deterioration of water and poor visibility in the depth of the sea in this place.
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In May, 2000 Jesus Christ's lying until then
of 10 years at the bottom of the sea
underwater statue, Maltese pulled out the floating crane since the weight of a statue of Jesus Christ makes 13 tons and moved closer to earlier old Malta-Gozo ferry ferry flooded with year (the ship the Imperial Eagle which was earlier).