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Dive Sites:Tenerife diving sites are for all level
of experience. The underwater fauna is very abundant on the Canarian Islands and you can
enjoy at least 20 various dive sites with us.
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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 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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Radazul
25 min. drive from Abades,
5 min. from Santa Cruz
Depth: 40 m for PADI divers
Level: easy DEEP dive with easy access
Characteristics: pelagic UW life spotted
occasionally, trumpet fish, 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
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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. Ship was
sunk in 2006
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Punta Prieta15 min. drive from
Abades
Depth: 30-40 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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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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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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Los Abrigos Pools15 minutes drive from
Abades
Depth: 0-20 m
Level: Easy dive, torch light required
Characteristics: interesting rock formations
& caves, abundant colorful small life in the caves, good for
photography
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Los Abrigos Cliff15 Minutes drive from
Abades
Depth: 0-8 m
Level: Medium experience required
Characteristics: excellent dive for
macro-photography, abundant colorful small life on the rocks, stingray, 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 and a "broken Arch" at the end of
the dive, no current but possible surge, colourfull sponges, stingray, moray eel,
blacktail comber
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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
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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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