Full Description
Dive into Adventure: Choose your perfect dive with easy, advanced, and technical difficulty ratings, depths, durations, and stunning underwater and above-water photos.
Unforgettable Sites: Explore a kaleidoscope of underwater wonders, from breath-taking caves and vibrant reefs to shipwrecks and secluded bays.
Gozo's Hidden Gems: Discover rarely explored dive sites alongside iconic favourites like the Blue Hole, Inland Sea and tunnel, Santa Maria Caves, and multiple wrecks.
Expert Insider Tips: Benefit from Richard Salter's vast experience as a resident instructor. He provides advice to help you to conduct safe and fun dives for all diver skill levels. There is also information on Gozo's rich history, charming villages, vibrant festivals and mouth-watering cuisine.
This expanded second edition includes the new wreck site, MV Hephaestus, changes to existing dive sites, updates to dive centres/independent operators, new photographs and more. The navigation and look of the book have been improved and refreshed, making it easier to find dives in each of the five areas. The guide acknowledges the collapse of the Azure Window, and the transformation of that underwater area into a unique seascape with new swim-throughs and shallower sections accessible to more divers. The adjacent Blue Hole remains unaffected.
Diving Gozo & Comino is essential for independent divers planning their own adventure; divers exploring Gozo with one of its many professional dive centres; anyone seeking the ultimate underwater experience in Malta. Plan your dream dive holiday and discover the magic of Gozo & Comino today!
Contents
Map of dive sites. INTRODUCTION: The Beautiful Island of Gozo; Acknowledgements; Using this Book; DIVING INFORMATION: Glossary; Dive Conduct; Dive Operators; First Aird / Emergencies; Maltese Diving Regulations; Wind & Temperature. TOURIST INFORMATION: Commonly Used Words and Phrases; Timeline; Tourist Sites; Village Festas; Gozitan Food and Drink to Try. DIVE SITES: NORTH: Area map. 1.Punta Ta' Kap Camma, San Dimitri; 2.Moffit's Cave (Ta-Mahsel); 3.Wied ir-Raheb; 4.Gudja Cave (Ta Camma caves); 5.Hekka Cave (near Hekka Point); 6.Wied il-Meilah; 7.Pinu Point (Ghar Tal-Margun); 8.Forna Point; 9.Wied-il-Ghasri to Cave Of Wind/Cathedral Cave (Ghar il-Rih); 10.Cave of Wheat (Ghar il-Qamh); 11.Billingshurst Cave (Ghar ix-Xih); 12.Shrimp Cave; 13.Reqqa Point; 14.Reqqa Point: The Bottle; 15.Anchor Reef or Landslide Reef; 16.The Washing Machine (Ta Bughas); 17.Double Arch; 18.Xwejni Bay; 19.Triple Arch/Calypso Cave; 20.Qbajjar Bay; 21.Santa Marija Breakwater; 22.Ghar Qawqla; Marsalforn Bay. SOUTH-EAST: Area map. 23.Dalhet Qorrot; 24.Qala Anchors/The Old Quarry; 25.Qala Point; 26.The Oath Isle (il-Gebla tal-Halfa); 27.Hondoq Bay; 28.Tac-Cawla Rocks (il-Gebla tac-Cawla); 29.By the Harbour Reef; 30.Red Bay (ix-Xatt l-Ahmar); 30a MV Hephaestus; 31.Xatt l-Ahmar Reef; 32.MV Cominoland; 33.MV Karwela; 34.Xlendi Ferry; 35.Middle Finger (Ras il-Hobz); 36.Fessej/Black Rock (Skoll tal-Fessej); 37.Mgarr ix-Xini; 38.Ta' Cenc; 39.Ras in-Newwiela. SOUTH-WEST: Area map. 40.Ta' Cenc Reef; 41.Sannat Cliffs; 42.Bajjada Point; 43.Dawra Tas-Sanap; Xlendi Bay; 44.Xlendi Bay, Reef & Tunnel; 45.Xlendi Tunnel & Reef; Luzzu; 46.Ulysses Cave; Zurzieb Cave & Reef; WEST: Area map. 47.Wardija Point (Il-Ponta tal-Wardija); 48.Punic Temple (Ras il-Wardija); 49.Fungus Rock (Il-Gebla tal-General); 50.Crocodile Rock; 51.Rogers Cave & Crocodile Rock; 52.Coral Garden & Coral Cave; 53.The Blue Hole; 54.Inland Sea to the Blue Hole; 55.Inland Sea to Whale Cave; 56.The Beard (Tal-Barba); 57.Ta' Tejtu. COMINO ISLAND: Area map. A Short History; Getting There. 58.The Canyon, San Niklaw Bay; 59.Santa Marija Reef; 60.Santa Marija/Comino Caves; 61.Elephant Rock/The Molar (Id-Darsa); 62.Sultan Rock; 63.Popi FV/Ostmark/Balje; 64.Lantern Point (Ras L-Irqieqa); 65.Inner Lantern Point; 66.Crystal Lagoon; 67.P31, Kondor Class Minesweeper; 68.Alex's Cave; 69.Inner Cominotto Reef; 70.Anchor Reef, Cominotto; 71.Outer Cominotto Reef. NATURE OF GOZO: Diver Guidance for Seahorse Safety; Jellyfish and Alien Fish Species; Posidonia Oceanica; Geology of the Maltese Islands. INDEX and Marine Species Guide.
