Scuba Diving Places

Located 1.5 miles from Funchal, it is a place that can be accessed from land or boat. We do this dive from a boat so that we can start at the deepest part and go up through the various canyons. The maximum depth is 26 meters and the top is at 2 meters. The average depth of the dive is 14 meters.

In the various canyons we find several species of moray eels, namely the black moray eel (Muraena augusti) and the serpent moray eel (Enchelycore anatina). Usually these have cleaner shrimp, which will be ideal for a photograph.

This site needs to be visited more than once in order to know the entire dive site, due to its extension.

50 meters from the coast we find a small rock that, on the south side, rises from the bottom in a wall from 15 meters to 3 meters deep. On the North side we have a wall from 9 meters to 3 meters deep. Around the rock we have stone and on the south side a sandy bottom.

A place with vegetation where small fish like the Sugador (Lepadogaster candolei) hide and there is a high probability of finding the frog fish (Antennarius nummifer) on the north side of the rock. One of the few places where we can find the frog fish.

In this place you can find a wide variety of schools of Trumpet Fish, Groupers, Barracudas, Mackerels and Lobsters.

At the bottom you’ll find Butterfly Rays that can be well camouflaged on the sandy bottom.

Here you can find green fish, chestnuts, among others. You cannot observe large rays.

The dive site has a maximum depth of 20 meters and in this location, you will find 3 “Seamounts” (3 Marias). Here you will be able to observe a variety of species such as the rare orange-coral, morays, and other species of fish.