Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · sea · Gozo and Malta

🇲🇹 Żurrieq Reef

Żurrieq, Malta, Malta

On Malta rather than Gozo, beside the Blue Grotto — a reef off Wied iż-Żurrieq with caves and an arch in the cliff.

Dives here
1
Deepest
17.5 m
Water
salt
First · last
2011
Also known as
Zurrieq · Zurrieq Reef

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

West Reef route · 410 mQuay: stairs and laddersSlipwayThe Valley (inlet)↓5 mWest Reef: ledges, gullies, boulders↓12 mBell Tower Cave 27 m, Mouse Hole Cave 25 m↓27 mDiving helmet statue↓28 mEast Reef wall↓30 mN20 m
  • Entry / exit
  • Point of interest
  • Statue
  • Shoreline
  • Dive path
  • Depth
Site map · 5 objects · 1 path · max 30 m

The Wied iż-Żurrieq inlet with the quay ladders and the slipway, the West Reef (Sikka Leminija, where the site's point is) with its two caves and the helmet statue, and the East Reef wall along the cliff. Features and depths from maltadives.com and divesystemsmalta.com, shoreline and slipway from OpenStreetMap; the caves, statue and route are placed from text descriptions and are approximate. The Um El Faroud wreck (110 m, south-west of the reef) is left off.

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

The one dive of the trip on Malta itself rather than Gozo. Wied iż-Żurrieq is the inlet on the south coast that boats leave from to visit the Blue Grotto, the sea cave system in the cliffs where the water lights up electric blue in the morning sun.

The reef off the inlet runs out from the shore with caves and an arch cut into the cliff base, in 10–25 m, and the water here is among the clearest around the islands.

Dived 2 August 2011 to 17.5 m.

Dived here with

Kim

1 dive at Żurrieq Reef

  1. 2 Aug 2011 with Kim date2 Aug 2011 depth17.5 m time59 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)