Montelivi

The boat run sets the tone before the descent does. Piscis Diving frame Montilivi as a 25-minute trip south, with an entry that drops "into the blue" and the rock visible only as a vague mass below; SubLimits run a more direct line to Punta dels Canyets and a cleaner over-the-top descent. Either way, you are on an exposed offshore rock rather than a sheltered bay reef.

Once on the wall, the dive becomes a long traverse. Centres describe vertical faces between 18 and 33 metres carpeted in yellow encrusting anemone over coralligene rock — the visual signature SubLimits flag in their own write-up. Crevices and holes shelter morays at every depth and conger eels of considerable size deeper in the rock; groupers turn up occasionally in the recesses, calibrated as an open-coastline encounter rather than a reserve fish stock. The 500m extent means a single tank covers one section: an inshore shoulder one day, the deeper outer end on another. Older trip reports describe a sunfish waiting at the mooring on one May descent and a few lobsters tucked into the deeper crevices.

Most of the Sant Feliu rotation is compact: a tunnel system at Port Salví, a two-zone reef at La Llosa, a small islet at S'Adolitx. Montilivi reads as the long offshore alternative — half a kilometre of continuous rock that lets the centre pick a section appropriate to the day and the group. SubLimits flag the yellow-anemone wall cover at the 18-33m core as the visual hallmark; Piscis Diving anchor the dive in the descent itself, into a water colour that reads differently because the bottom composition shifts the tone. Forum reports from a decade and a half ago describe the site in the same key — depth and quiet rather than spectacle, run for AOW divers willing to drive to Sant Feliu for an alternative to the bay sites. No recent community write-ups have surfaced, so the modern feel rests on what the two centres choose to highlight.

Ask which section of the formation the centre is running before you book. SubLimits and Piscis Diving describe the same long rock from different ends, and the profile differs accordingly: a shallower 15-20m start, the rich 18-33m wall middle, or a 26-40m outer end. Nitrox is worth arranging for the wall core, where most of the dive is spent. The offshore position means weak-to-moderate currents are more likely than at the sheltered inshore sites, so keep an SMB ready and watch your gas margin on the deeper end. The dossier records old fishing nets adhered to the rock from a 2009 centre log; treat them as substrate rather than navigation hazard, and stay off the structure rather than reaching into crevices for a closer look.