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Entering at Playa Chica with a free descent to the drop off at 20 meters. Down to the left we find the Cathedral. It's a huge dome-shaped cave full of colours and marine life. When you ascend over the reef you can see a beautiful curtain of bubbles coming up from the sand providing a very special view of the blue ocean **** |
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Mala (Charco del Palo). Here you have underwater volcanic lava flows from 5-60 metres depth. A variety of Stingrays, electric rays, eagle rays or angel sharks are common at this site. There is a tunnel just of-shore where scorpion fish can be found. Very special landscape with huge sand slopes where you can see the end of the island. **** Mala (The Elevator). This is a cave that starts in 15m. Inside you will find lots of small critters and lots of colours. Anemones, forkbeards, lobsters and slipper lobsters are some of the animals that live here. The bottom of the cave is in 30 m**** |
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This is one of the dive sites in Playa Grande. The descent line reaches a reef in 8m ideal for the safety stop. The lave flows continue down to the drop-off in 25m. Here you find a cave with a large orange coral hanging from the ceiling. From here we can either go left to the small caves with lots of encrusting anemones or to the right where we also have caves and lots of anemones with dancing shrimp. You often find big groupers and small island groupers that are very curious and approach the divers, as well as large schools of Bogues. You often see large pelagics in the blue and it is also common to find angel sharks and rays buried in the sand. **** |
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Close to Arrecife harbour there is a large trawler, the biggest and best conserved wreck of the island.The wreck is in excellent condition as it was sank accidently and not deliberately. This dive can only be done by boat and is for the experienced divers as the top of the wreck starts at 22 meters with a maximum depth of 35 m **** |
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Blue Hole. We jump off the harbour wall and follow the sandy slope down to the reef. On the way you frequently find lots of ropes were sea horses are hiding. We follow the reef along to where the blue hole commences. It's an amazing tunnel throught the reef that leads down and out the other side into the blue ocean. This dive is between 20-35 meters. **** |