Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · sea · Gozo and Malta

🇲🇹 The Blue Hole, Dwejra

Dwejra, Gozo, Malta

A limestone shaft through the shore platform that drops you out onto the wall at twenty-six metres — under an arch that no longer exists.

Dives here
1
Deepest
32.1 m
Water
salt
First · last
2011

Revision 2 · changed 18 Oct 2026

History
  1. r2 18 Oct 2026 Photo size matches the file · Dennis Bakhuis
  2. r1 10 Oct 2026 Imported from the personal log · Dennis Bakhuis

Site data © divelog-sites contributors (ODbL), descriptions and maps CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

1 map

Coral Gardens 5–10 mAzure Reef (arch rubble)Wall ~25 m, dropping past 50 mUsual route · 453 mEntry (steps)↓0 mBlue Hole (pool)↓15 mArch↓8 mCave↓10 mAzure Window (fell 8 Mar 2017)Chimney up to 6 m↓26 mCoral Cave, floor 30 m↓18 mRogers Cave↓15 mN20 m
  • Entry / exit
  • Point of interest
  • Shoreline
  • Dive path
  • Wall / drop-off
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  • Coral / reef
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Site map · 7 objects · 1 path · max 26 m

The Blue Hole at Dwejra with the arch, the Azure Window rubble (Azure Reef), Coral Gardens, the chimney and Coral Cave. Coastline, the hole and the Big Bear rock are from OpenStreetMap; feature positions are approximate, placed from the maltadives.com site coordinates, the Azure Window's published position and the St Andrew's Divers Cove (gozodive.com) and maltadives.com site descriptions. The wall line and the extent of Coral Gardens and the rubble field are estimates, not surveyed. The arch collapsed in March 2017.

Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

Not the one in Dahab. Gozo's Blue Hole is a roughly circular shaft, about 10 m across, worn through the rock platform at Dwejra on the west coast. You climb down to it over the rocks, get in, and descend the shaft to about 15 m, where an archway in its seaward side lets you out onto the open wall at around 26 m. The wall drops well past 50 m.

Just outside there is the Chimney, a fissure in the rock that one diver at a time can swim up through, following the light, and which opens into the Coral Gardens at about 6 m.

The arch that was there

Directly above the Blue Hole stood the Azure Window — a natural limestone arch 28 m high with a span of about 25 m, formed over something like five hundred years as wave action cut a notch, then a joint, then a cave, then an arch. Divers coming out of the Blue Hole surfaced or ascended under it.

On the morning of 8 March 2017, in a storm, the supporting pillar failed and the entire arch went into the sea. Nothing of it shows above water.

This log's dive was 6 August 2011, to 32.1 m — five and a half years before it fell. The rubble is now a dive site in its own right.

Dive 115 had previously been pointed at Dahab's Blue Hole in the workbook; it is this one.

Image: Malta Gozo, Azure Window (10264176345).jpg — Berit Watkin from Redhill/Surrey, UK, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Photos

Dived here with

Kim

Nearby sites

1 dive at The Blue Hole, Dwejra

  1. 6 Aug 2011 with Kim date6 Aug 2011 depth32.1 m time53 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)