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🇲🇹 Ras il-Ħobż (the Middle Finger)
Mġarr ix-Xini, Gozo, Malta
A pinnacle rising from over forty metres to within ten of the surface, standing just off the shore with a thirty-five-metre channel behind it.
- Dives here
- 1
- Deepest
- 29.5 m
- Water
- salt
- First · last
- 2011
- Position
- 36.0156, 14.2794
- Also known as
- Ras il Hobz · Ras il-Hobz · Ras il-Hobz (Middle Finger)
Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026
History
- 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
- Entry / exit
- Point of interest
- Pinnacle / rock
- Shoreline
- Dive path
- Depth
Ras il-Ħobż headland at the mouth of Mġarr ix-Xini with the Middle Finger pinnacle about 50 m off its tip (top 8–10 m, base 40+ m, a 35 m channel on the shore side, the seaward side falling to 90 m), and one entry on each side of the headland. Layout and depths from maltadives.com, divers-guide.com, divebluewaters.com and nds-malta.com; the shoreline is OpenStreetMap. The pinnacle, entries and route are placed from the text descriptions and are approximate; the engine block and the 63 m anchor the guides mention are not placed.
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
At Mġarr ix-Xini on the south coast. Ras il-Ħobż — bread cape — is a shore dive onto a single pinnacle that rises from more than 40 m of water to about 10 m below the surface. Divers call it the Middle Finger, for reasons that are clear from the profile.
The narrow channel between the pinnacle and the shore bottoms out at 35 m, so the standard dive runs down the channel, round the base and up the tower in a spiral. It is the best-shaped dive on Gozo — one object, all of it visible, depth entirely under your control.
Dived 2 August 2011 to 29.5 m.
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1 dive at Ras il-Ħobż (the Middle Finger)
- 2 Aug 2011 with Kim date2 Aug 2011 depth29.5 m time46 min water—
Sources
- First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)