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🇲🇹 Reqqa Point
Marsalforn, Gozo, Malta
The deepest shore-accessible wall on Gozo, on the exposed north coast, with a cylindrical shaft in the reef dropping from thirty-seven metres to fifty-eight.
- Dives here
- 1
- Deepest
- 28.7 m
- Water
- salt
- First · last
- 2011
- Position
- 36.0820, 14.2363
- Also known as
- Reqqa Point / Billinghurst Cave
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
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- Entry / exit
- Point of interest
- Shoreline
- Dive path
- Wall / drop-off
- Sand
- Other area
- Depth
Reqqa Point on Gozo's north coast: the entry at the point, the chimney near it, Reqqa reef running north-west under water to 15–17 m, the wall beyond it to 60 m and more with the Bottleneck shaft (58 to 35 m), and Billinghurst Cave in the bay to the west. Coastline, the entry and Billinghurst Cave are from OpenStreetMap; the layout follows the St Andrew's Divers Cove (gozodive.com) description and maltadives.com site coordinates. The reef, sand and wall outlines are estimated, not surveyed, so all positions are approximate.
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
Reqqa Point is the northernmost tip of Gozo, near Marsalforn, and it gives the island's most serious shore dive. The wall drops to 40 m and beyond; a rocky shelf at about 18 m holds jacks, morays, damselfish and dense shoals of sardines.
On the western side is Bottleneck Cave, a vertical cylinder about 5 m across dropping through the reef from 37 m to 58 m, with cracks along its walls full of shrimp. That is technical territory and well below the dive logged here.
Dived 7 August 2011 to 28.7 m.
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1 dive at Reqqa Point
- 7 Aug 2011 with Kim date7 Aug 2011 depth28.7 m time58 min water—
Sources
- First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)