In Diving Gozo & Comino, local dive guide and instructor Richard Salter shares his maps, experience and advice for 71 sites. Photos above and below water, depths, durations and grades are given - Easy, Advanced or Technical - to help you choose where to dive. Put a copy in your glovebox and go!
Gozo, Malta, has a multitude of underwater attractions to explore from the shore or by boat. Divers can see breathtaking caves, tunnels, wrecks, reefs and bays. If you consider the profusion of marine life and good visibility it is not hard to understand why the diving here is consistently voted amongst the best in Europe. Richard Salter's Diving Gozo & Comino covers a huge 57 dives on Gozo and 14 on Comino, including (to name a few) the Blue Hole, Inland Sea and Tunnel, Santa Maria Caves, Double Arch, Reqqa Point, Billinghurst Cave and the wrecks Cominoland, Karwela, Xlendi Ferry and P31.
Original site maps include suggested routes, the location of underwater caves and swim-throughs, depth and features. Photographs from a variety of contributors show both Gozo's underwater scenery and the topside landscape. Written by a vastly experienced resident instructor and guide, Diving Gozo & Comino: The essential guide to an underwater playground features both shore and boat dives, including some sites which are very rarely explored. Whether researching a self-guided trip or diving with one of Gozo's many professional centres this book will help you to pick and plan safe and fun dives.
But not only that - Diving Gozo & Comino also contains information about the island's rich history, fascinating tourist sites, celebratory village festas and delicious original food.
* Diving Gozo & Comino includes changes caused by the collapse of the Azure Window at Dwejra. Although an incredibly sad loss, this natural event was just one of an infinite number which have sculpted the coastline of the Maltese islands over the millennia, as divers can see better than most. Underwater the layout of the dive site was altered with the landscape containing new swim-throughs and shallower parts, making it accessible to more divers. The adjacent Blue Hole was unaffected.
By:
Richard Salter
Imprint: Dived Up Publications
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 10mm
ISBN: 9781909455160
ISBN 10: 1909455164
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 12 April 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
INTRODUCTION: The Beautiful Island of Gozo; Acknowledgements; Using this Book; Glossary. DIVING INFORMATION: Dive Conduct; Dive Centres; 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: 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: 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); 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: 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: 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: 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. FIRST AID/EMERGENCIES. INDEX.
Richard Salter is an instructor and dive guide who started diving the Maltese islands in 2004, where he has amassed over 5000 dives, mostly on Gozo and Comino. After finding accurate information hard to come by and existing publications lacking he started to draw his own dive site maps. He also learned some local history so that he could show divers the best places, depending on the kind of diving they wished to pursue. Now he shares his knowledge so that divers can safely enjoy all that Gozo and Comino have to offer.
Reviews for Diving Gozo & Comino: The Essential Guide to an Underwater Playground
"'This is a very good guide... One of the joys of diving in Gozo, and which justifies the use of the term ""underwater playground"" in the title, is that it is one of those rare places where divers can pack a 4x4 or van with kit, tanks and friends and take off for whichever sites take their fancy. They also need a reliable guide-book - this new one deserves its place in the glovebox'-- Diver; 'A well put together and good-looking guide book that will be a useful tool for anyone planning on diving Gozo and Comino. It is the sort of book that first timers, as well as those experienced in diving here, will want to have on their shelves'-- Scubaverse.com; 'Richard crams his book with everything you need... an impressively well thought-out guide to visiting these islands. The question is not why should you buy this guide, but why wouldn't you?'-- BritishDiver.co.uk"
