{"id":1140,"date":"2018-03-11T16:56:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T16:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2018-05-04T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T16:11:04","slug":"the-azure-window-a-year-after-its-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/2018\/03\/11\/the-azure-window-a-year-after-its-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Azure Window: A year after its collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/2017\/03\/13\/the-new-dwejra-underwater-landscape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first pictures I had uploaded<\/a> a year ago just 5 days after the collapse of the Azure Window when we visited its remains for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been on an anniversary dive to take some pictures for comparison, starting off from the Inland Sea and swimming out all the way to the Blue Hole and back. \u00a0Here are some pictures from the dive.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1141\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1141 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"1801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_01.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_01-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_01-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_01-1124x1500.jpg 1124w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_01-72x96.jpg 72w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Departing from the Inland Sea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1142\" style=\"width: 1473px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1142 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1473\" height=\"2200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_02.jpg 1473w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_02-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_02-768x1147.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_02-1004x1500.jpg 1004w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_02-64x96.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1473px) 100vw, 1473px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mesmerising marine life in the Inland Sea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1143\" style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1143\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_03.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_03-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_03-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_03-2000x1318.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_03-146x96.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The darkening remains of the Azure Window.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1144\" style=\"width: 2500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1144\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_04.jpg 2500w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_04-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_04-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_04-2000x1500.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.josephcaruana.co.uk\/diving\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/azure_year_after_04-128x96.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the scattered remains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<script language='javascript' type='text\/javascript'>function getWR360PopupSkin(){return 'light_clean';}<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might remember the first pictures I had uploaded a year ago just 5 days after the collapse of the Azure Window when we visited its remains for the first time. 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