Dive Areas

21 dive areas with editorial content, grouped by country and region

Spain16 areas

Canary Islands

Lanzarote

Volcanic Atlantic island with year-round shore diving at Playa Chica, an angel shark stronghold, and Europe's first underwater sculpture museum.

8 dive sites

El Hierro

Westernmost Canary Island with Spain's first marine reserve (1996), twin-pinnacle dive at El Bajon, and Europe's only smalltooth sand tiger shark aggregation.

8 dive sites

Costa Brava

Costa del Montgrí

Mainland Montgrí coast at L'Estartit with limestone cliffs, swim-through tunnels, a 60 m natural cave and two wrecks, outside the Medes reserve fee zone.

8 dive sites

Illes Medes

Seven-islet limestone archipelago off L'Estartit, the Spanish Mediterranean's flagship marine reserve with tame groupers, gorgonian walls and tunnel systems.

8 dive sitesFeatured

Costa del Maresme

Barcelona's everyday diving coast: parallel rocky bars, a sunken fish farm, and dredger wrecks within a 30 minute drive of the city.

8 dive sitesFeatured

Palamós

Central Costa Brava dive cluster built around a working fishing port, with the Boreas wreck, Ullastres gorgonian walls, and the Formigues archipelago.

7 dive sitesFeatured

Begur

Granite headland on the central Costa Brava with gorgonian walls, an offshore pinnacle to 60 m, and Roman amphorae in the shore-dive cove.

6 dive sites

Cap de Creus

Spain's easternmost peninsula: Paleozoic schist and pegmatite walls, caves, and the pinnacle of Massa d'Or inside Catalonia's first marine natural park.

6 dive sites

Sant Feliu de Guíxols

Sheltered Costa Brava bay with a six-tunnel limestone cave complex at Port Salví and a year-round local operator when neighbours close for winter.

5 dive sites

Tossa de Mar

Costa Brava's shore-diving capital: a granite coast of calas and pinnacles with resident seahorse colonies, multiple independent centres, and no reserve permits.

5 dive sites

Balearic Islands

Ibiza

Balearic island with 200km of coastline offering caves, walls, the Don Pedro wreck, gorgonian forests, and UNESCO-protected Posidonia meadows.

8 dive sites

Murcia

Cabo de Palos

Murcia marine reserve where submarine mountains and historic wrecks concentrate some of the Mediterranean's densest fish aggregations.

8 dive sites

Costa Tropical

La Herradura

Sheltered horseshoe bay on Andalusia's Costa Tropical, from calm coves to 40 m wall dives along the Maro-Cerro Gordo cliffs.

8 dive sites

Costa de Almería

Cabo de Gata

Volcanic marine reserve in Almería with caves, craters, and a 1928 wreck. Andalusia's warmest Mediterranean diving and close to year-round.

7 dive sites

Costa de la Luz

Tarifa

An island at continental Europe's southern tip where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean: walls, wrecks, a kelp forest, and strong tidal currents.

6 dive sites

Costa del Sol

Marbella

Costa del Sol resort diving where murky nearshore water contrasts with Las Bóvedas, an offshore seamount at 18-40m with 20m+ visibility and pelagics.

3 dive sites

Egypt3 areas

South Sinai Governorate

Sharm El Sheikh

Southern Sinai dive hub where Ras Mohammed walls, Straits of Tiran reefs, and the SS Thistlegorm wreck share year-round Red Sea warmth.

8 dive sites

Red Sea Governorate

Marsa Alam

Egypt's southern Red Sea hub famous for dugong bays, oceanic whitetips at Elphinstone, and the spinner dolphin reef at Shaab Samadai.

8 dive sites

Hurghada

Egypt's busiest Red Sea hub, pairing the Abu Nuhas wreck graveyard with shallow Giftun reefs and a resident dolphin pod at Sha'ab El Erg.

8 dive sites

Finland2 areas

Southern Finland

Saaristomeri (Archipelago Sea)

Finland's Archipelago Sea: 50,000 islands between SW Finland and Åland, with brackish-Baltic wrecks from sheltered Pargas to open-Baltic Utö-Jurmo.

0 dive sites

Finnish Quarries

Finland's flooded freshwater quarries and old mines, run as club-leased dive parks: intro depths through ice diving to world-class mine caves at Ojamo.

0 dive sites