Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

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

'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