Best Dive Sites
Abades
From shore - All divers
From the entry spot you can start on a sandy part that brings you to a nice shallow-depth reef, direction South, at only 50 m from the beach. Divers friendly fish, wrasse, parrot fish, blue fin, breams, lizard, scorpion, morray eels (dotted, brown and tiger), octopus (common and spotted),…
Anfiteatro
By boat - All divers
Overhanging rocks along the whole reef shelter scorpionfish, groupers, trumpet fish and glass eyes. In the 12m-area barakudas wait for pray whilst curious amberjacks examine the divers closely, patroling in regular intervals.
Angela Pando (Autentico)
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
The boat is very deteriorated and its super structure collapsed some time ago which does desmecer immersion impressive as its size and landscape shaped by their life remains fairly.
Arguineguin Rif
By boat - All divers
Arinaga
From shore - All divers
Dive easy to access and perform, peligo little difficulty and little input or output orientation, and several easy routes to follow.
Mixed background of sand and rocks.
The car you can park almost literally in the access. Great comfort to either of the teams on the promenade.
Artificial Reef
By boat - All divers
Baja de San Fernando
By boat - All divers
Stresses its construction fund which is real exciting, erosions that have shaped tunnels, terraces, a special attraction for the photograph.
Bajada de Caleta
From shore - All divers
Seen some Manta's here in august
Barranco
By boat - All divers
Along the reef, with its edges and crevices, gather huge swarms of breams, zebrabreams and guelyjacks. In the slots and holes several moray eels are at home: tigermorays, black moray eel and big mask morays are all very common here. A bit further away from the reef on the sandy areas we meet…
Caleta Baja
From shore - CMAS * / OW
Noting that it is an area where you can see the blankets as desired devil, angels and mantelinas grunts and a bank at the entrance of the cave.
Camino de Altura
By boat - All divers
Cermona II
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Special care when using this tourist submarine wreck as a daily walk, do not forget to bring in the boat with the Alpha flag (blue and banking) or the diving as it is an area very close to the output port. opportunity to visit it.
Ceuva Elevitero
By boat & from shore - CMAS * / OW
Chucho Rif
By boat - All divers
Condesito Shipwreck
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Advanced divers cos of the currents. Great marine life: Dolphins, barracudas, jacks, lobsters, angel sharks...
Cueva de los cerebros
By boat - CMAS * / OW
volcanic tube that allows us to go to zero level in the interior. Variety of crustaceans, highlighting the presence of the sponge brain, typical of the deep that can be seen in this cave, which gives its name to the immersion
Cueva de Palmar
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Lots of morays and garden eels. Great underwater canyons.
Do not enter the cave. Many divers have died here!
Diente de Ajo
By boat & from shore - All divers
Outgoing lava enters the sea. Possibility to see a black coral.
El Acuario
By boat - CMAS * / OW
diving in the same area as deco dangers... take care!
beneath the cages of the farm is easy to find agelotes, large stingrays, bishops, eagles, mice who come to see you, Lacha banks and seahorses
El bajon
By boat - CMAS * / OW
One of the best dives I've done ever. Impressive. When there is current is more complicated but there is much more life tabi (jurel Bicuda, Gallo Blue Sargos ...)
El Bajon del Rio
By boat - CMAS * / OW
The bottom is a mixture of basaltic formed volcanic rocks, shaped like huge mushrooms, with loose rocks around the bottom. The rocks are up to 10m in height. Species hiding around these rocks are Black Bream, Zebra Bream, Ornate Wrasse, Parrot Fish, Guelly Jacks, Trumpet Fish, Cow Breams, Saddled…
El Cabeton
By boat - CMAS * / OW
A large formation of flat rocks on the sea bed. Large school of baracuda present, as well as Goldsline and Grout.
El Cabrón
From shore - CMAS * / OW
The Asshole its name is a pretty fucked up access. But it's worth. The name and location shown on Google Earth are fine, but there is another entrance about 200 meters north. In the "El Cabr?n" can be made several dives, the more normal is "Los Roncadores" that is 20-22 meters deep max. You can…
El Canyon
From shore - All divers
El Meridian
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Description: WWII Minesweeper
Depth: 30 metres
WW2 German minesweeper used in later life as a dolphin viewing ship from Los Cristianos. The vessel was purposely sunk on 23rd October 2005. This dive is very interesting as the wreck is intact and upright. We have spotted a resident grouper on…
El Mirador
By boat - All divers
El Muelle
By boat - CMAS * / OW
A dive across the outer wall of the habour, which is re-enforced by lots of concrete crosses. Sting rays and butterflu rays can be seen in teh sand around the wall.
El Muellito
By boat - All divers
El Portal
By boat - All divers
El Rincón
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Only 2 mins by boat from the harbour, the mooring buoy is located in the corner of the port wall and a rocky bar that enters the sea in North-South direction. This bar extends out to the open sea and creates a great wall dive. Follow the bar, reaching a maximum depth of 20 meters. At the end of the…
El Saltadero
From shore - CMAS * / OW
The entrance to the sea by the same zone where sea water enters the salt and have to take a small jump. With good weather you can get out of the sea almost anywhere, but with bad weather there is the possibility of escape through an area of natural rock, which he called The Puertito, which is about…
El Tazar
By boat - All divers
El Veril Grande
By boat - CMAS * / OW
A lareg rock formation coming up from sand bottom at 20m. Drop down to around 35 - 40m at one sode of rock. Large Dusky Grouper and Goldeline present around rocks. Eels also finding inbetween rocks.
Erizos wrecks
By boat - All divers
Feriones
From shore - All divers
Easy Dive. None Current. Not Deep.
It's a dive at a Reef near the beach.
You can see angel sharks, sepia and a lot of different smaller fishes.
It's near the dive place playa Chica.
Kalais
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Greek cargo ship sunk in 1978 compared to spring Reina Sof?a.
Entertaining the possibility of dipping into the engine room of the title if you have advanced. Thanks to its cargo of bagged cement remained on the wreck on its keel, while enjoying the most was not lying on his side as often happens…
Korsakov
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Russian fisheries collapsed in 1977 of about 80 mts. length and resting on its starboard side. In very good condition is easy to dive inside them, but be careful with that many networks are still in it.
La Bajita
From shore - All divers
La bombilla
From shore - All divers
Nice Dive side formed by the lavaeruption of the St. Juan Volcan 1994. Right side very deep, left side with 13 arches in shallow water.
La Caleta
From shore - CMAS ** / AOW
La Carrera
By boat - All divers
A trench with a sand bed surrounded by volcanic formations with small caves and cracks. The sandy center is at 16m in depth, with some Eagle Rays, as well as Angel Sharks. In the surrounding rocky areas and small caves are Canarian Lobsters, Groupers, Zebra Breams, Parrot Fish, Amber Jacks,…
La Emboscada
By boat - All divers
La Herradura
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Start this dive on a bouy situated on a large rock, between 8 and 12m deep, usually surrounded by dozens of Zebra Seabreem (Diplodus cervinus). In the many cracks live Black Morays (Muraena augusti) and Brown Morays (Gymnothorax unicolor), sometimes accompanied by the rare Goldentail moray…
La Isleta
By boat - CMAS * / OW
La Restinga
From shore - All divers
Las Anclas
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Dive site is named after a large number of old anchors found there. It is a trench found along the reef that stretches from Corralejo to Playa Blanca (Lanzarote). You can find many types of rays as well as lobsters, Barred Hog Fish, Groupers, Breams, Barracuda's, Glasseyes, and the occasional deep…
Las Cabras
From shore - CMAS ** / AOW
Las Merinas
From shore - CMAS * / OW
Near the base are emerging on the surface a series of rocks called the Merino.
Immersion simple and entertaining by the type of rocky bottom where you can see a large quantity
Mala cove
By boat & from shore - All divers
Charco del Palo offers a nice circular rocky cove, good swimming and shore diving. Walk to the cove, and go down the cliff to a rocky path then a ladder.
The bottom consists of sand and rocky outcrops, including caves which can be entered. Angel sharks, rays and groupers are common.
This is…
Malpique
From shore - CMAS ** / AOW
Mil Ojos
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Mole
By boat - All divers
Nuevo Horizonte
By boat - All divers
Papagayo
By boat & from shore - CMAS * / OW
Spectacular uw cliffs in front of the famous Papagayo beach. Suitable also for snorkeling. Boats taking / leaving people off/on beach traficing frequently in the bay
Pecio Arona
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Little difficulty, although often strong currents that may hinder your dive if you are not equipped with proper fin thrust.
Are some stories from this wreck so click this link to see the real and documented.
Playa Callao, Los Cristianos
By boat & from shore - All divers
Dive out from the bay and leave the water through the rocky beach. Not recommended in case of high waves!
Some funny objects under water. Interesting fauna and flora.
Playa Chica
From shore - All divers
Playa Dorada
From shore - All divers
Easy dive along a reef (not natural) with most of the time no current. The visibility is always different (2-15m).
Many fishes.
Puertito
By boat & from shore - All divers
It's an easy dive.
There?s a field of rocks and mooring blocks, that turns into flat sand at the mouth of the bay.
Some small fish, and TURTlES!
The turtles are there daily.
Many people feed them, so they aren't shy.
Normally there isn't any current.
There are usually other divers.
Be…
Puerto Naos nord
From shore - All divers
Close to the Marine protected area there are a lot of diferent species. Lava rock and sandy areas-
Pulau Pisang
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Pulau Pisang is a very remote island in Irian Jaya / Western Papua. This island is only rarely visited by liveaboards, usually as a stopover on the way from Misool to the Triton bay.
The diving at Pulau Pisang was extremely rewarding. On the first dive we have seen as shoal of about 25 eagle…
Radazul
From shore - CMAS ** / AOW
Reef Pasito Blanco
By boat - All divers
Easy diving complications can admire the marine life is the owner of such structures.
Species typical of sandy bottom most common species on the island.
Richies Place
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Roncadores de la Falla
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
When you descend into the water you enter a large swim through, then when you reach the end you will see a large array of sea life including a school of Roncadores, as you continue along the dive you can see Trumpet Fish, Monk Fish and Octopus, as you dive deeper you can see black coral and reef…
Russian wreck - El Pajar
By boat - All divers
Hydrofoil from the Russian Meteor series. Not a fantastic wreck cos very destroyed by the currents and storm.
Sardina
From shore - All divers
Simple dive, not very spectacular. The most usual route is to exit by the stairs of the old pier and follow the outside of the breakwater.
Tabaiba
From shore - CMAS ** / AOW
Enter the water via the man made sea pool. Swim under the little bridge, and drop down to the sand just out from the rocks. Look for the metal pipe (diameter approx 50cm) just to the right, and follow this out to the wreck.
Easy.
Always seems well protected from wind, even with a strong NE.
Taliarte
From shore - All divers
Located between the mouth of the harbor and beach hair, is a rocky area with a large number of invertebrates, including a cebadal and various types of algae.
Temple hall
From shore - CMAS ** / AOW
Vallito
By boat & from shore - CMAS ** / AOW
Yellow Moutain
By boat & from shore - All divers
Monta?a Amarilla in Tenerife, is so called because of the golden coloured stone mountain, located next to the dive site. This dive is suitable for both boat diving, or to enter from the shore by ladder. Underwater there are fantastic rock formations one of which forms a horizontal swim through…