La Reparada

A steep rock face drops from close to the surface off Cadaqués, on the mid-coast stretch of Cap de Creus's Cadaqués sector. Two gorgonian-covered ledges break the descent, one around 15-20 metres and a second around 25-30, thick with the pre-coralligenous growth that gives the wall its character.1 Below that, the working depth is read two ways: the park's own mooring buoy sits at -30 metres, matching a run to 30-35 metres; a different figure for the same coordinates puts the drop-off at 27-40 metres, climbing back through a 20-metre zone of loose rock scree on the way up.

La Reparada carries no wreck, cave or other built landmark: the dive is the rock slope itself and the gorgonian-covered ledges that break its descent. The park chose six species specifically for this sheet: two seabream, a forkbeard, a spiny lobster, a cylinder anemone and the Mediterranean moray, a mix built around rock-and-crevice residents, not open-water schools.1 Sea fans and coralligenous growth cover the slope at both ledges, the kind of pre-coralligenous community the wider park keeps in only a few places.

The park's own chart marks a fixed mooring buoy here; the same site is also described as reached by anchoring the boat instead. Anchoring onto a coralligenous slope is normally the exact practice a mooring buoy exists to prevent, so ask your centre which method it uses before you book. Independent divers must give the park authority prior notice and keep within its cap, applied per boat, not per diver: six dives a day, thirty a week, a hundred and twenty a year.2 Touching, removing or altering flora, fauna or archaeological remains is banned throughout the park.2 This point carries the park's general zone tag rather than one of its three marine reserves, so the reserve-only night-diving authorisation most likely does not apply here, though that is unconfirmed for this exact site. Three centres run trips to La Reparada, one based in Cadaqués and two more out of Roses.