 - Depth
- 8-36meters
- Sea Bed
- Rock / Sand
- Interests
- Cave at 36 meters
- Tourist Attractions
- Qawra Point, also known as Ta' Fra Ben, is a
rocky outcrop within Qawra, a sea-side town in
the north of Malta. There are many hotels and
restaurants in the area.
- Speciality
- Cave divers.
- Dangers
- You must be taken there by somebody that knows
the area because there is a cave which has a very
narrow entrance and a very silty bottom. Three
divers died there in 1992 due to low visibility
within the cave.
- Visibility
- 3 - 10 meters
- Navigation
- You take a bearing of 300 degrees towards the
tower above. Go to the reciprocal bearing. Take
the bearing when about 10 meters off shore. After
10 -20 minutes surface swim (Depends on the
strength of the divers), you will find a dropoff.
Go down, and follow the dropoff to the right
until you find a canyon. At the very bottom on
left hand side at a depth of about 36 meters, you
will find an entrance. The cave is horse shoe in
shape. You must take care of what you are doing
because, the cave is not very large, and you
cannot see the exit while you are going in. You
will see it only half way through. The bottom of
the cave is rocky bottom with sandy areas. Not
adviseable for more than 4 divers.
- Entry/Exit Points
- Down the rocks
- Shore/Boat/Long Swim
- shore dive.
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