Best Dive Sites
Bace de Moli
By boat - All divers
Bau Cap Trencat de Fora
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Beware of boat traffic!
The big shoal is good, there is a drop off on the northeast side, and 3 tunnels between the two main part of the shoal.
Like many other dive sites, octopuses, groupers and morrays.
Bau de Cap Falco
By boat - All divers
Very nice shoal. The top is at 4 m deep, the bottom of the shoal is approx 36 m. There is a drop off on the southwest side.
Some lobsters in the cracks and holes, and a lot of octopuses.
Cala Mula
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Cala Viuda
By boat - All divers
Canyones de Fallaguer
By boat - All divers
This dive site has two shoals rising at 6m from the surface. Small walls with cracks and crevices with lobsters, red corals, morays...
Cap Gros
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Cap Norfeo Sud
By boat - CMAS * / OW
This is a great dive site. A very nice drop off, full of red gorgonians; groupers, octopuses, fish shoals... probably one of the best dive site of the area.
Cavall Bernat
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Cova de la Sal
By boat - All divers
Cova del Quim
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Dolphin's cave
By boat - CMAS * / OW
A the southern entry of the cavern, there is a small, bronze statue of a dolphin. There are several tunnels in the area, the main one starts at the Dolphin. There is another on on the E side (deeper and darker) and a small one to the W.
El Bisbe
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Groupers, morrays, octopuses, sea slugs...
El Boreas wreck
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Wreck starts at 18 m depth. bottom is 32 m.
El Gat
By boat & from shore - CMAS ** / AOW
This is a DEEP dive for experienced divers only! The wall of El Gat starts by a white gorgonian field, then a red gorgonian field down to 55 meters deep.
You can end your dive around El Gat, or to the Cap Norfeu's pool.
El Medellot
From shore - CMAS ** / AOW
The dive is all around the small island. There are some tiny lobsters in the walls.
Another option is to go ESE (about 75m) to the Roca del Mas Ferrer (40m).
El Montiell
By boat - All divers
Rock start at 12m and bottom is at 22.
El Negre de Fallaguer
By boat - CMAS * / OW
El Salpatxot
From shore - All divers
Good second day dive. Lot of rocks with all tiny fauna, and some sandy floor around rocks.
Els Arquets
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Escrivana
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
Start from Tascon Petit and go to the south. There are several rocks at approx 30-35m deep covered by red gorgonians.
Ferranelles
By boat - All divers
This is a tipical Mediteranean dive, with both sandy and sea grass floor. It a good site to see Eagle-rays, but also groupers, flat fishs, etc.
Furio de Fito
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
underwater rock starts at 16 m and bottom is at 54 m.
Ile de Tosca
By boat - All divers
illa mateua
From shore - All divers
Isla de Messina
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Large shoal of fish, a large canyon, groupers, Conger, moray eels, Dentex, gorgonians - everything you studied in the Mediterranean.
Islas Falboles
By boat - All divers
Bad viz
L'Arbre
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
A rock barrier 20 meter deap.
Very close to Barcelona.
Cool dive full of marine life dive: shellfish, grouper, moray, nudibranch, ray, conger eel,red scorpion, cardinalfish, etc...
Lots of other similar diving spots in the area from the same harbour: El Negre, El Pessebre, El Vell, Els Congres,…
La isla bonita
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
You can start by the Bau de Cap Falco shaol. Insted of going south, go northeast, cross the sandy channel and dive around the large reef named la isla bonita.
There are a lot of tiny lobstars in the reef cracks...
La Llossa
By boat - All divers
Boulders, cracks, red corals, octopus...
La Llossa Revesa
By boat - All divers
La pedrosa
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Very quite dive site; protected from the swell by the rock. The dive starts from the little creak formed by the rock; depth here is only 8m, on a gravel seabed with a lot of marine species (octopus, sepias...). The dive is around and inside the rock! You can dive around the rock where a wall running…
La Vaca
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Don't dive directly under the boat buoy, but swim at 3m deep to the cave.
There is some large gorgonians at Punta de la Galera, but it's 45m deep !
Llafranc Playa Sud
By boat - All divers
Los tres hermanos
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
Gorgonians, cold (in june). Nothing exceptional.
Mar Menuda
From shore - CMAS * / OW
Easy dive spot.
With a lot a tipical mediterranean sealife.
Ideal for night dive.
Monkfish in early springtime.
Goods "Chiringuitos" to have a meal or a post-dive
beer !
Marmoler
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
Massa d'ors
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
Matzel
From shore -
Na Bosca
- OWD
Na Bosca is placed very close from Tossa, at less than 5 minuts in the boat, its a easy dive for begginers, with a lot of fishes, with a sand canyon, wheres is placed the most interesting of the dive.
Oliguera
From shore - All divers
Nice canyon and a wall, remains of the SS LLanishen
Pedra de Deu
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
Big rocks with lot of groupers. Great wall between 20m and 40m (sandy floor) with large gorgonians and lobsters. There is a little cave at 45m.
Port Salvi
By boat & from shore - CMAS ** / AOW
Pota del Llop
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
This is one of the most beautifull wall of Medes Islands. Just a the begining of the dive, between rocks at 21m deep, there are a lot of octopus. Search for them !
At the bottom of the wall, 50 m deep!, there is a large tunnel with conger eels, lobsters and european lobster (homard). An…
Puig de la sardina
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
Punta Farallens
By boat - CMAS * / OW
A lot of sea slugs...
Punta Salines
By boat - All divers
There is an amusing little cave and a strange hole where you enter at 10m deep and output at 2m, with nice ray lights coming from the surface.
You can dive to the cape, with a small wall with gorgonians.
This is not the best dive, but ok for a second dive.
Reggio Messina Wreck
By boat - CMAS ** / AOW
115m long ferry-boat used to carry trains to Italy. It was towed from Barcelona to L'Estartit in 1991 and sunk.
Roca Muladera
- OWD
La Roca Muladera, or also known as La Roca del Moro for the fishermans, is a divespot placed at 10 minuts by boat from Tossa. Its a good dive spot for begginers, and for practice orientation skills. The anchor line is at 14 meters. This places have a lot of nudibranchs, and smoll octupus.
S'Esquinça
- ADOW
A place full of Morays, Lovesters, Nudibranch, etc.. This dive spot is places in front of the Lloret Casttle.
Saint Prosper Wreck
By boat - CMAS *** / Rescue
The Saint Prosper was a cargo built in 1920. She sunk on a floating mine march 8th 1939. It has been discovered in 1967 by the C.R.I.S. (Centro de R?cup?raciones e investigagaciones submarinas) divers.
Vessel size: 106 m long, 4330 tons.
This is a deep dive for experienced divers only! Take…
T?nel de la Ferriola
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Tasco Petit
By boat - CMAS * / OW
This is one of the dive wher you can see all Mediteranean Sea kind of fishs, including large shoals of huge groupers !
Ullastre I
By boat - CMAS * / OW
Underwater mountain begins at 11 m. deep and lowers down slowly till about 30 meters deep ending in a group rocks in the east. The north side is covered by eunicella cavolinii and lots of nudibranchia. Other species are diplodus cervinus, nudibranchias, scyllarus arctus , galathea strigosa, octopus…