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Dive Sites Porto Colom
| Dive Site |
Center |
Difficulty |
Max Depth |
Dive Site Description |
| Cala Mitjana |
Porto Colom |
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21 m |
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| Cala Sa Nau |
Porto Colom |
Easy |
13 m |
This is an easy dive we do in a bay when the wind is blowing from the south. It's a quiet place. We go down at 6 m and follow a wall until 16 m where we normally meet octopus, small, beautiful rock fish species like gaper, rainbow wrasse, peacock wrasse, scorpionfish and blue damselfish as we jump from rock to rock to discover what life has in store for us. |
| Cueva Cala Sa Nau |
Porto Colom |
Advanced |
12 m |
The Cueva Cala Sa Nau is a big cave (25 m x 60 m). We enter through the large entrance into a big chamber with stalactites and stalacmites where we can stay for up to 40 minutes, depending on your skill level. Look out for cardinal fish, brown meagre and prawns in secret holes.
To be able to join us for a cave dive like this, you must be relaxed and comfortable in the water, take care of your head and watch your fins to avoid kicking up to much silt.
Inside the cave we can surface inside an air chamber, and witness the stunningly beautiful relections of the blue color from the entrance against the black darkness of the cave.
English (Translate this text in English): Cave diving. You should go swimming for about 300 before arriving to the cave entrance, located almost at the end of the cliff on your right when swimming to the open sea: the southern wall.
Cave about 80m. long and about 35m wide at the widest point. Average depth into the cave = 6m. You'll find there some stalactites, stalagmites, columns and some other different speleothemes. Not much silt inside, but you must be careful in some zones in which it can be easy removed from the bottom (frog kick recommended). Two chemenies in the ceiling leading to little air chambers. The average distance between the bottom and the ceiling is about 4 or 5 meter, but there are lower zones. No hard restrictions.
Despite the fact that you can't easily loose the entrance as it's a straight cave, and the entry is large, dive it following the cave diving security standards and precautions. Dive safe.
English (Translate this text in English): Cave diving. You should go swimming for about 300 before arriving to the cave entrance, located almost at the end of the cliff on your right when swimming to the open sea: the southern wall.
Cave about 80m. long and about 35m wide at the widest point. Average depth into the cave = 6m. You'll find there some stalactites, stalagmites, columns and some other different speleothemes. Not much silt inside, but you must be careful in some zones in which it can be easy removed from the bottom (frog kick recommended). Two chemenies in the ceiling leading to little air chambers. The average distance between the bottom and the ceiling is about 4 or 5 meter, but there are lower zones. No hard restrictions.
Despite the fact that you can't easily loose the entrance as it's a straight cave, and the entry is large, dive it following the cave diving security standards and precautions. Dive safe.
English (Translate this text in English): Cave diving. You should go swimming for about 300 before arriving to the cave entrance, located almost at the end of the cliff on your right when swimming to the open sea: the southern wall.
Cave about 80m. long and about 35m wide at the widest point. Average depth into the cave = 6m. You'll find there some stalactites, stalagmites, columns and some other different speleothemes. Not much silt inside, but you must be careful in some zones in which it can be easy removed from the bottom (frog kick recommended). Two chemenies in the ceiling leading to little air chambers. The average distance between the bottom and the ceiling is about 4 or 5 meter, but there are lower zones. No hard restrictions.
Despite the fact that you can't easily loose the entrance as it's a straight cave, and the entry is large, dive it following the cave diving security standards and precautions. Dive safe.
English (Translate this text in English): Cave diving. You should go swimming for about 300 before arriving to the cave entrance, located almost at the end of the cliff on your right when swimming to the open sea: the southern wall.
Cave about 80m. long and about 35m wide at the widest point. Average depth into the cave = 6m. You'll find there some stalactites, stalagmites, columns and some other different speleothemes. Not much silt inside, but you must be careful in some zones in which it can be easy removed from the bottom (frog kick recommended). Two chemenies in the ceiling leading to little air chambers. The average distance between the bottom and the ceiling is about 4 or 5 meter, but there are lower zones. No hard restrictions.
Despite the fact that you can't easily loose the entrance as it's a straight cave, and the entry is large, dive it following the cave diving security standards and precautions. Dive safe.
English (Translate this text in English): Cave diving. You should go swimming for about 300 before arriving to the cave entrance, located almost at the end of the cliff on your right when swimming to the open sea: the southern wall.
Cave about 80m. long and about 35m wide at the widest point. Average depth into the cave = 6m. You'll find there some stalactites, stalagmites, columns and some other different speleothemes. Not much silt inside, but you must be careful in some zones in which it can be easy removed from the bottom (frog kick recommended). Two chemenies in the ceiling leading to little air chambers. The average distance between the bottom and the ceiling is about 4 or 5 meter, but there are lower zones. No hard restrictions.
Despite the fact that you can't easily loose the entrance as it's a straight cave, and the entry is large, dive it following the cave diving security standards and precautions. Dive safe.
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| Punta Cala Sa Nau |
Porto Colom |
Medium |
22 m |
After the easy dive of the Cala Sa Nau we can do a one way dive, with the boat following us at the surface towards the point, where we can meet bigger fish, like salemas and groupers and feel the open sea while following the reef. |
| Peter Marlin |
Porto Colom |
Advanced |
26 m |
The name of the site is after the wreck we go to see. In fact no-one knows the true name of the wreck but legend has that it was called Peter Marlin. What we can be sure about is that it is waiting for us at 26 m, resting in the sand. We don't enter into the wreck but enjoy it from outside, with plentiful marine life having made the wreck their domain. Moray Eels, blue damfish, cardinal fish and cleaver wrasse.
The dive is a straight descent to 26 m from open sea with no reference points.
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| Acantilado Cala d'Or |
Porto Colom |
Medium |
32 m |
A one way dive, following a wall along the steep coast, slowly eroded by the sea. We go down in the crystaline Mediterranean Sea where we can see the bottom at more than 30 m. At any point along the dive you will see the surface and the bottom at the same time. Along the wall we will encounter moray eels, octopus, black faced, slender goby, pink flabellina and different parts of vegetation. |
| Arco d'es Cielo |
Porto Colom |
Medium |
25 m |
The Sky Arch. A one way dive along the large and rectangular, door-like arch that opens up to display a host of moray eels. At times the moray leaves her hole and comes out to play. |
| Farallo d'En Fred |
Porto Colom |
Multilevel |
23 m |
The leaves us on one side of a tiny rock-island that underwater is not so tiny at all. One step between 6 m and 12 m for beginners, another step down at 18 m and a third step at 23 m. There are a couple of big holes, tunnels and swimthroughs and several game sites for various types of fish. Barracudas can be spotted grouping up, you can find an octopus or three holed up and plenty of other species around the area. On the south side we can play among rocks, both big and small and on the north side, we can go and see a small wreck (3 m) and perhaps encounter a stingray, and if we have enough air, we go into a big tunnel with 1 entrance and 4 exits, where you can choose the one you think is your size. |
| Farallo del Faro |
Porto Colom |
Easy |
18 m |
When the wind blows from the north, this is a swimming pool. We anchor up at 6 to 8 m and go visit the Farallo, a rock so big that it sticks out of the water, where we can meet big octopus, gaper, painted comber, white bream, common dentex and many other types of fish. |
| Faro |
Porto Colom |
Medium |
20 m |
At the lighthouse we go at 20 m between the wall and the sand, to witness a lot of sealife. We find a small cave-like entrance in the wall and a little further away we find a dark place. If it's not to frightening, we go between the bottom and a big rock closing like a chimney, making it a tunnel to go up. (Once inside, it's not so scary, it's only the beginning that's really dark). We finish the dive on the wall, finding anemones, sea urchins and starfish living together with plenty of smaller rock fish, like montague's blenny, small red scorpionfish, golden goby, peacock wrasse etc). |
| Punta Cala Marsal |
Porto Colom |
Medium |
18 m |
We jump in not so deep and follow the landscape until the end of land and come back to find the rocks where some pretty big fish are trying to make themselves invisible. |
| Sa Cantera |
Porto Colom |
Medium |
21 m |
At the beginning of the dive, we follow a line of rocks and encounter a lot of different sea life. On the way to the boat we go to our surprise spot of the dive, a cave open to the surface. A little magical because who would have known from the outside that it is a natural swimming pool? |
| Es Bufador |
Porto Colom |
Medium; Expert |
23 m |
The Bufador can be enjoyed for both the intermediate and the expert. For the medium level we go down the chimney from 3 to 18 m. As we go down inside the land, we have thermocline and are like mosquitos following the light.
For the expert we stay more time to explore the small room inside and search for conger eels, slipper lobster and prawns.
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| Champiñon |
Porto Colom |
Expert |
34 m |
The Champiñon is a little farther by boat, to discover a piece of land underwater that looks like a huge mushroom. On this dive you are likely to encounter currents. We need two dives to go all around the mushroom, and we will see barracudas and plenty of live. This dive is a deep dive at 34 m. |
| Cala s'Algar |
Porto Colom |
Beginner |
11 m |
Our DSD-site, an ideal site for your first open water dive; a nice place and a lot of schooling fish. |
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