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Another Malta picture, this time a pretty nice view over Dweira point. If you look carefully near the end of the closest land tongue you will notice a hole in it, this is called the Azure Window and is a great tourist attraction here on Gozo.

just behind it is something called the Blue Hole, a 15m deep 6 meter wide hole, separated from the sea on the surface by a thin wall of rock. If you dive down this hole to about 5 meters depth the wall open up in a huge gap on the sea wall that goes all the way down to the bottom and a beautiful blue light shines in.

It's a great place both for scuba diving and free diving. As a matter of fact, Jacques Cousteau graded the Blue Hole as the 6th best diving site in the world. As you can see, it is quite windy this day with great waves, I dove down to near the bottom of the hole but I did not want to pass the underwater passage with the current from the waves being strong and the waves wild on the surface.

Postprocessing: Unsharp mask with very high radius to remove fog. New unsharp mask radius 1, after resize.

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