Diving in Fuerteventura

Divers can find dramatic underwater rock formations, reefs and ship wrecks.

Diving in Fuerteventura presents an abundant variety of marine life for divers to enjoy including tuna, sea bream, angel sharks, barracudas and eagle rays.

There are about a dozen top class dive centres around the island offering all the gear you will need.

With its clear waters and consistent temperatures, Fuerteventura s a diver's paradise. Visibility is an exceptional 30 metres or more and water temperatures range from 17-19 degrees in the winter to 22-23 degrees in the summer - ideal temperatures for the eco-system which exists around the island.

There are diving sites that will satisfy everyone from beginners to advanced divers.

Taking the plunge

There are a number of top class diving centres around the island catering for everyone from complete novices to experienced divers and offering jackets, regulators and console - all the equipment you will need.

One of these is based on the beach near the habour in Caleta de Fuste and offers beginners courses as well as courses for more experienced divers.

Assuming that you are fit and that your dive is sufficiently early enough in your holiday to allow to fly home, a typical course will start with a lesson teaching you basic theory and safety procedures, the hand signals you will use and how the equipment works.

Then there will be a practice session to allow you to become accustomed to the equipment and for the staff to correct your dive weights then it is off to the sea for a real dive.

There are 11 diving sites around Caleta de Fuste offering various degrees of difficulty.

Diving site Salinas Reef El Tazar. Depth : 12m-35m (average 25m). Current : moderate. Waves : unprotected. Time to reach site : 10/15 minutes. Difficulty : beginner to advanced. On the edge of the reef there are normally large schools of damsel fish and further on, large barracuda. In the lower rock formations, grouper, parrot fish, mottled grouper, garden eels and many others.

Diving site Salinas Reef Black Treasure Bank (Tesoro Negro). Depth 12m-40m. Waves : unprotected. Current : moderate. Time to reach site : 10/15 minutes. Difficulty : beginner to advanced. In the reef wall are fantastic black corals, sponges, sea slugs and anemones. At the foot of the reef are tube anemones and peacock worms while on the sandy floor are often groups of rays.

Diving site Salinas Reef El Portal. Depth 12m-35m. Waves : unprotected. Current : moderate. Time to reach site : 10/15 minutes. Difficulty : advanced. In front of the reef itself is a rocky wall with an opening leading to the Deep Blue where conditions are tailor made for larger fish. Tuna fish running to 2m, amberjack of up to 1.8m and even whale shark

Diving site Salinas Reef The Lookout (El Mirador) Depth 12m-38m. Waves : unprotected. Current : moderate. Time to reach site : 13/18 minutes. Difficulty : advanced. Crossing a ravine are a series of huge rock formations and looking towards the blue are amberjack and bonit, eagle rays scouring between the rocks for food and in the rocks, conger eels and moray hide.

Diving site Salinas Reef The Labrynth (El Laberinto) Depth 12m-38m. Waves : unprotected. Current : moderate. Time to reach site : 10/15 minutes. Difficulty : experienced to advanced. A wild seascape which continues to hold surprises even for regulars. Angel sharks. barracuda, bonito and, if you are lucky looking to the surface, a great hammerhead. Sometimes on the edge of the reef can be found schools of sardines waiting to be hunted by tuna.

Diving site Salinas Reef The Pyramid (La Piramide) Depth 14m-39m. Waves : unprotected. Current : moderate/strong Time to reach site : 10/15 minutes. Difficulty : beginner to advanced. At about 26m behind the edge of the reef a pack of grouper wait in the rocks to battle with moray eels. Sea turtle can sometimes be found near the pyramid wall and deeper there is a fair chance of spotting a two metre ray.

Diving site Salinas Reef Depth 14m-27m. Waves : unprotected. Current : moderate. Time to reach site : 10/15 minutes. Difficulty : advanced The rocks begin very near the reef and are close together with small passages where hide grey triggerfish, ornate wrasse, combers and sea bream while in the sandy channels filefish and occasionally porcupine fish swim against the current. Also shrimps and large spider crabs.

Diving site Boat Graveyard (Cementerio de Barcos). Depth - 7m: Waves  protected: Current  very slight. Time to reach site  2 minutes. Difficulty  beginner to advanced. Among the remains of a ship wreck and sunken yacht are schools of young barracuda, black sea bream, octopus, squid and sardine. In winter months angel sharks can be found

Diving site Castillo Reef Amphitheatre (Anfiteatro)Depth 12m-21m. Waves : unprotected. Current : slight to moderate. Time to reach site : 5/10 minutes. Difficulty : beginner to advanced. Under the reef overhangs lie sole, trumper fish, scorpion fish and grouper and in an area 12 metres at the edge of the reef are barracuda searching for prey and alfonsinos.


Diving site Horizonte Reef Nuevo Horizonte Depth 24m-39m. Waves : unprotected. Current : moderate to strong. Time to reach site : 15/20 minutes. Difficulty : advanced A free descent and the reef with its basalt walls rises from the sandy bottom. A perfect place for rays : Atlantic torpedoes, butterfly rays, torpedoes and common rays are all found here. From the Deep Blue, gilthead sea bream, barracudas, tuna and blue fish approach the reef.

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