Diving the Azores

The Mid Atlantik

• water temperatures up to 25°C in summer and 17°C in winter
• underwater-views from 20-40 m, in good conditions up to 60 m
• over 55 dive-spots around the island
• incredible variety of specimen, caused by the gulf-stream
• boat dives from May until October

The spots

• beautiful walls, flats and seamounts close to the island
• 14 caves and grottoes
• magnificant formations (arcs, hangovers...)

Hot spots

• Formigas Rocks are located 20 miles offshore. Concerning formations, variety and the chances for king-size-fish one of the very hot spots in the North Atlantik
• Dollabarat is a seamount 3 miles beside the Formigas. The depth rises from several hundreds of meters up to 4 meters (best shark spot)
• Baixa Ambrosia is a real seamount with 42m of depth
  (these offshore-spots can only be reached in very good conditions of sea and create extra costs to the client)

Courses

• CMAS 1 star - CMAS 3 star
• CMAS special: navigation, drift, current, nightdiving

Specials

• scooter diving
• night dives (regular price), lots of morays, snails and crawfishes
• bluewater: offshore-drifting secured by the anchor cable
• Snorkel-trips: offshore and grottoes

Marine life

• coastal: big groupers, amberjacks, barracudas, schools of sardines, morays, octopus, stingrays, snails, black and soft corals,
• in the caves: different specimen of shrimp and crawfish, octopus, snails, sponges, big mullets, yellow jacks, morays, stingrays
• offshore: big schools of amberjacks, different specimen of shark and tuna, dolphins, eagle rays, manta rays and pelagic stingrays, turtles and diving corey-sheerwater-birds.