Scuba Diving in Tenerife – Grouper’s Cave, Basaltic reef

Dive Site: Grouper’s Cave

Location: Radazul, Tenerife

Description: Basaltic reef

Depth: 10 – 20 metres (30 – 65 feet)

Visibility: 30 metres (100 feet)

An easy dive for all levels in 10 to 20 metres of depth. A basaltic reef with nudibranchs, giant anemones, stingrays, barracudas, tunas, anthias, triggerfish, breams, lizardfish, morays and garden eels. At the end of the reef there is a small cave home to a friendly, big grouper.

Scuba Diving in Tenerife – Devil’s reef, Radazul

Dive Site: Devil’s Reef

Location: Radazul, Tenerife

Description: Deep reef

Depth: 35 metres (115 feet)

Visibility: 40 metres (130 feet)

Devil’s Reef is located near Santa Cruz in front of La Nea Beach. It is a deep reef on which one can see sharks, stingrays, black and red coral, big jackfish, groupers, morays, bogues, barracudas, etc.

Scuba Diving in Cuba, Caribbean – El Ancla del Pirata, Maria La Gorda, Cuba

Dive Site: El Ancla del Pirata (the Pirate’s Anchor)
Location: Maria la Gorda, Cuba
Description: Wall with wide sandy channels
Depth: 18 metres + (60 feet)
Visibility: 25 metres (80 feet)

The dive starts with a cruise along the wall close to the top, passing by the swim-throughs. A few barracuda were swimming can be seen nearby and there are also groupers close by. One also comes across stonefish. On the reef are some healthy coral and spectacular gorgonians. The wall itself is not as sheer as at the other wall sites and the channels are more widely interspersed with rocky outcrops breaking them up. As divers cross the sand at the top of the wall to the reef they can pass over a couple of sand eel gardens before hitting the shallow reef that is home to all the usual reef fish as well as an abundance of barrel sponges.

Scuba Diving in Fiji

Dive Site: Manta Ray Point
Location: South Yadua
Description: Reef
Depth: 18 metres (59 feet)
Visibility: 30 – 40 metres (100 – 130 feet)

This site is only a one-minute boat trip away from Waterfall Bay. All sixteen of us on the expedition were lucky enough to see at least one manta ray in the three months that were there. It is advisable to keep looking up and around into the blue and on the reef tops as a manta may suddenly emerge. This is a great dive even if you don’t see mantas however. Expect to find lots of harlequin sweetlips, massive porites coral colonies covered in Christmas tree worms, high fin groupers and large table corals. The largest humphead wrasse I have ever seen anywhere.