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🇲🇹 San Dimitri Point
San Lawrenz, Gozo, Malta
The westernmost tip of Gozo, a boat dive into open blue water, with caves cut into the cliff and a hundred and twenty metres of penetration in one of them.
- Dives here
- 1
- Deepest
- 27.4 m
- Water
- salt
- First · last
- 2011
- Position
- 36.0688, 14.1837
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
- Shoreline
- Dive path
- Wall / drop-off
- Shallows
- Depth
Sparse map of San Dimitri Point, the western tip of Gozo below 80 m cliffs: the shallow reef plateau where the boat moors, the drop-off to about 20 m, the boulder slope to 30 m and the swim-through under boulders at 18 m between reef and cliff. Coastline from OpenStreetMap; the reef outline is approximate and the rest follows the St Andrew's Divers Cove (gozodive.com) description, so positions are approximate. Whale Cave and Tal-Barba Cave lie about 1.2 km further south near the Inland Sea and are not drawn. The map origin is the reef (36.0688, 14.1837); the site coordinates lie about 500 m offshore to the north-west.
Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf
San Dimitri Point at San Lawrenz is the western end of the island, named for the chapel above it. It is exposed to everything and can only be dived on a calm day.
The cliff below is cut with a series of cracks and caverns, some big and long — Whale Cave and Tal-Barba Cave both go in about 120 m, which puts them firmly beyond cavern diving. The open-water side is a wall into deep blue with pelagics passing, which is what people go for.
Dived 4 August 2011 to 27.4 m.
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1 dive at San Dimitri Point
- 4 Aug 2011 with Kim date4 Aug 2011 depth27.4 m time58 min water—
Sources
- First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)