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Home  : What to See & Do  : Holiday Ideas  : Diving  : Dive Sites  : Xatt l-Ahmar, Gozo
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Xatt l-Ahmar, Gozo

 

This site is a small bay southwest of Mgarr.  Access is generally from the shore.  The dive starts across a wide horizontal ledge, about 9 metres deep, which is covered with seaweed where sprats and sardines can be found.  At the edge, the ledge drops down to around 22 metres, where the seabed is covered in boulders ranging from small ones to extremely large ones.  These rocks apart from providing habitats for small octopus, goatfish, seambreams and more, also act as swimthroughs.  Throughout the dive, one can also come across parrotfish, scorpionfish and shoals of damselfish. In 1999, the Gozo ferry boat, the Xlendi was sunk  here, as an artificial reef. 

Maximum depth - 30 metres



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