Tenerife diving

Tenerife shore dives.

Here is a short description of the main diving spots for all levels that we regularly propose to our guests in the southern half of Tenerife.

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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

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

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.

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

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

Wreck Tabaiba

25 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

Punta Prieta

15 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

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.

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

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

Poris old Mans Cove

10 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

Los Abrigos Pools

15 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

Montana Amarilla

20 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

El Palm Mar

25 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

Puertito

30 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

Playa Paraiso

30 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

Marazul

35 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