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Tenerife dive sites:Our diving sites are for all level
of experience. The underwater fauna is very abundant on the Canary Islands and you can
enjoy up to 30 various dive sites with us depending on your level and the weather condition. Our average bottom time is 60 minutes, up to 6 guests per dive instructor, 5 guests per dive guide with DPV scooters.
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Abades Playa
Depth: 0-9 m
Level: all levels, PADI school &
trial dives as well, very easy access
Characteristics: resident green turtle, lots of small colorful fish, seahorse, barracuda, moray eel, cuttlefish, octopus,
sea hare & cucumbers, triggerfish at spring, abundant UW vegetation on the rocks, sea
grass on sandy areas
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Abades Cave & Barracuda
Point
Depth: 10-18 m (40 with UW
scooters)
Level: all levels from the 4th dive Open
Water Course, very easy access
Characteristics: barracuda, sardine,
stingray, eagle ray, angel shark, trumpet fish, garden eel, grouper, sponges and sea
urchins covering rock formations, small caves, sea grass on sandy
areas
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Abades Cliff
Depth: 20 - 30 m
Level: easy access, long dive if no scooter
Characteristics: Moray eels, rays, garden eels, wall in the middle of a sandy area
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Abades Mountain
15 min. with UW scooters
Depth: 18 m
Level: easy dive if no wave and no surfacing,
strong currents below 20 m.
Characteristics: grunt (big schools), trumpet
fish, glasseye, stingray, eagle ray, angel sharks, sponges and sea urchins covering rock
formations below 5 m depth, small caves.
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Abades Bay
5 min. drive from Abades
Depth: 20 m
Level: boots required, easy dive
Characteristics: sardine, garden eel, octopus,
UW vegetation in the first 3 m, sponges and sea urchins covering the rock formation
deeper, rays and angel sharks spotted outside bay, "walking"
gurnard
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Boca Cangrejo30 min. drive from
Abades,
5 min. from Santa Cruz
Depth: 24-42 m
Level: better with boots, deep dives, difficult
entry if rough sea, currents but good protection behind walls
Characteristics: high concentration of moray eels, starfish and sea anemones,
stingray, angel shark, and garden eels on sandy bottoms, sardine, pelagic fish
spotted occasionally, small walls, sponges and sea urchins covering the rocks from 10 m depth, 2 possible dive sites on 2 different rock formations
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Radazul
25 min. drive from Abades,
5 min. from Santa Cruz
Depth: 25 to 60 m depending on level.
Level: easy DEEP dive with easy access
Characteristics: pelagic UW life spotted
occasionally, trumpet fish, groupers, tuna fish, amber jacks, stingray, barracuda, steep sandy
slope that drops to over 100 m - Aware of possible strong nitrogen narcosis beyond the
Cross at 38 m, various dives possible on this one, deep cavern.
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Wreck Tabaiba25 minutes drive from
Abades,
5 min. from Santa Cruz
Depth: 18-32 m for Advanced
Divers
Level: easy wreck dive with easy access
Characteristics: pelagic UW life spotted
occasionally, barracudas, sardins garden eels. Excellent for wreck specialty. With 40 minutes average bottom time our shortest dive. Ship was
sunk in 2006
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Puertito de Guimar20
minutes drive from Abades
Depth: 0-18 m
Level: Easy dive for all levels.
Characteristics: Interesting rock formations, rays, sardins, garden eels.
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Punta Prieta15 min. drive from
Abades
Depth: 20-40 m
Level: boots required, DEEP dive, difficult
entry if rough sea, currents
Characteristics: corals from 30m, moray eel,
stingray, sardine, frogfish, seahorse, trigger fish, school of grunts, pelagic fish
spotted occasionally, small caves, sponges and sea urchins covering rock
formations
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Los Roques15
minutes drive from Abades
Depth: 0-30 m
Level: Boots required, long walk ... on the way back.
Characteristics: Interesting rock formations above and below the surface, rays, sardins.
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Las Eras
10 min. drive from Abades
Depth: 16-40 m
Level: boots required, difficult entry/exit
point when rough sea, way back against strong current sometimes, easy to difficult dive
depending on the sea condition
Characteristics: trumpet fish, barracuda, tuna
and pelagic fish occasionally, octopus, moray eel, garden eel at depth, stingray, nice
wall with many small caves and tunnels, UW vegetation covering the rock formations
between 0 and 18 m.
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Poris (Mole)5 minutes drive from
Abades
Depth: 4-20m
Level: easy dive, possible giant stride
entry
Characteristics: sponge covering interesting
steep rock formations and beautiful walls, guelly jack, shrimps, starfish, stingray in
the sandy areas, dive site sheltered from prevailing
winds
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Poris (Port & Beach)10
minutes drive from Abades
Depth: 2-18m
Level: All levels, PADI School and trial dives
as well, good alternative to Abades if the wind blows from the South
Characteristics: lots of small colorful fish,
colorful sponges covering the rocks at shallow depth, stingrays on the sandy areas below
10 m
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Abona Black Corals10
minutes drive/boat from Abades
Depth: 35-60m, DEEP !!! dive
Level: Real Advanced divers only, difficult entry, DEEP dive strong current, boots required, with DPV Scooters or boat only.
Characteristics: Splendid drop-off 35 to 70 m, black corals forest from 35 m, pelagic fish
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Abona Wreck10
minutes drive/boat from Abades
Depth: 15-25 m
Level: Difficult entry, strong current, boots required, with DPV Scooters or boat only.
Characteristics: Close to the lighthouse many small wrecks in a bad state, barracudas and pelagic fish.
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Poris old Mans
Cove10 minutes drive from Abades
Depth: 0-20 m
Level: Intermediate, boots required
Characteristics: rocky bottom with drops from 8
to 12 m and from 14 to 18 m, small cave and overhangs, electric ray, stingray, grouper,
glass eyes, angelshark, barracuda, possible strong current at
depth
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La Jaca10 Minutes drive from
Abades
Depth: 0-8 m
Level: Boots required, DPV scooter dive.
Characteristics: Interesting rock formations, angel sharks and rays, black sea bream nesting area.
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Black Cove Pools15 minutes drive from
Abades
Depth: 0-20 m
Level: Easy dive if no waves, torch light required
Characteristics: interesting rock formations
& caves, abundant colorful small life in the caves, good for
photography, some divers have broken many sponges during the winter 2009/10.
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Los Abrigos Cliff15 Minutes drive from
Abades
Depth: 0-8 m
Level: Exit with a rope, boots required, Advanced divers
Characteristics: Excellent dive for
macro-photography, abundant colorful small life on the rocks, many interesting
overhang with a beautiful "swim-through" under the
cliff
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Montana Amarilla20 Minutes drive
from Abades
Depth: 0-22 m
Level: Medium experience
Characteristics: entry/exit on lader, sandy
bottom with interesting rock formations, vertical walls, horizontal layers and a "broken Arch" at the end of
the dive, no current but possible surge, colourfull sponges (most of them broken in 2009), long dive.
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El Palm Mar25 minutes drive from
Abades
Depth: 0-40 m for PADI divers
Level: boots required, UW scooter recommended,
entry at high tide only, deep dive, medium experience required
Characteristics: varying visibility due to
surrounding fish farms and many diving centres diving on this site, entry to deep caves,
many moray eels above the cave, stingray, early dive to be there before the other
divers
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Puertito30 minutes drive from Abades
Depth: 0-12 m
Level: All levels, trial dives as well
Characteristics: varying visibility due to
surrounding fish farms and low life but excellent Green Turtles feeding spot ... Turtles
might take your fingers for a fish, so beware of the
bites. Average bottom time 45 minutes only.
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Playa Paraiso30 Minutes drive from
Abades
Depth: 0-35 m
Level: Advanced
Characteristics: boots required, difficult
entry at low tide, varying visibility due to surrounding fish farms, excellent ray
feeding spot, abundant life, various rock formation, eagleray, stingray, butterfly
ray
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Marazul35 Minutes drive from Abades
Depth: 4-30 m
Level: Easy dive with technical entry, giant
stride, exit ladder
Characteristics: Possibility of three dives.
Swimthrough at 27m, small swimthrough at 15m, cave at 6m with blowhole (warning: only to
be entered when surge is not strong!). Small overhangs in 5-6m, good for photography,
stingray, moray eel
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Cueva de los Cerebros40 Minutes drive from Abades
Depth: 10-15 m
Level: Cavern dive combined with scooter dive, very long dive in shallow depth
Characteristics: Excellent dive site for cavern specialty.
70 m of tunnels, strong current, brain corals, shrimps, few underwater life but interesting exploration and rock formation. Start from San Juan beach, 140 minutes dive time.
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