Dennis Bakhuis

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🇲🇹 Double Arch Reef, Xwejni

Xwejni, Gozo, Malta

Two natural arches stacked one above the other in a reef a long way offshore — the reason to make the swim.

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

Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026

History
  1. 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

Usual route · 530 mThe Washing MachineXwejni Bay slipwayReef drop-off, descend here↓14 mHouse-sized boulders↓25 mReef top↓17 mUpper arch↓27 mLower arch, sand below↓36 mPosidonia meadows↓12 mN50 m
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Site map · 6 objects · 1 path · max 36 m

Xwejni Bay with the shore entry at the Washing Machine inlet in the salt pans and the Double Arch reef about 230 m due north of it: reef top 17 m, two stacked arches from about 20–27 m down to the sand at 36 m, the reef continuing to 45 m. Depths and route (surface swim, descent at the 14 m drop-off, boulders at 25 m, return over the posidonia) from gozodive.com, maltadives.com and divebluewaters.com; the arch and the Washing Machine positions are the OpenStreetMap dive-spot nodes, and the shoreline is from OpenStreetMap. Maltadives.com gives the arch about 300 m further north; the larger cave further out is not placed. Positions are approximate.

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

Off Xwejni Bay on the north coast. The reef here carries a formation of two arches, one above the other, cut into a rock mass standing off the main wall — the upper arch at around 18 m and the lower opening at about 35–40 m.

It is a long surface swim out from the bay, or a boat drop, and the depth means the bottom arch is a short visit. Dived 3 August 2011 to 37 m.

Dived here with

Kim

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1 dive at Double Arch Reef, Xwejni

  1. 3 Aug 2011 with Kim date3 Aug 2011 depth37 m time50 min water—