MV XLENDI GOZO -42 meters

MV Xlendi Gozo

MV Xlendi formally known as the MV Helsingor built in Feb 25th 1955 and was used as a ferry around Denmark till she was sold off and renamed MV Royal Sheeba in 1987 and only a year later she was moved on to yet again another shipping company in Denmark and renamed the MV Borgshorn in late 1988 till late 1990 were it seen here come to Malta.

From 1990 till 1999 she operated for the Gozo ferry company between the 2 islands transport passenger and holiday makers back and fort......
 She was decommissioned and scuttled as Gozo first artificial reef on the 12th November 1999 at 14.45hrs she slipped silently beneath the waves, but beneath the waves it was not the same thing on her way down she hit the reef at an angle causing her to roll down the reef deeper than planned and ended up side down.

One of the single propellers at one end of the ship.

Now sitting on the sand at depth of 42 meters, she in her self is a great dive to swim around on, as next to her is a few cars that missed the loading bay..lol  you can swim around her outer decks and the enormous single screw and rudder at 36 meters at one end and 37 meters at the other end.

swimming between the outer decks.

Caution cant be expressed enough on this wreck unless you are qualified to penetrate and are deco trained pls refrain from entering the wreck as its upside down it is so easy to get disorientated and lost with in the large ferry as as once in side down is out and up is 'your trapped' many people have lost there lives in there at their own risk as there are plenty of signs on the wreck forbidding entry to the wreck.

The car that missed the ferry!

All over the wreck signs clearly state not to enter.

Marine life grow all over the wreck from scorion fish and big morays to the most colorful nudibranch                    
around her bow i have even come across spiny lobsters and big octopus, she is a wreck not many people visit due to her      distance from the entry point 800 meters and of course she up side down but on the way back there is a lovely stony reef
if you swim 2 min north from the wreck you find your self in 22 meter following this all the way back to the drop off it just fantastic.                                                                                                                                                  




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