Pecio Los Candelabros

The descent line reaches the cliff face at five to seven metres, depending on where the boat ties up. Keep the wall on your left and follow the line where rock meets white sand, on a heading of about 225 degrees. Orange coral colours the rock from the first minutes, scattered boulders form rooms along the way, and octopus and morays work the edge between rock and sand. At about 13 metres the remains of the fishing boat lie half-buried in the sand, wooden frames with a few railing posts standing clear. Past the wreck the route ends at the seca, a rocky seamount that rises from 15 metres almost to the surface. Amberjack and dentex hunt above it, and triggerfish are regularly seen. An anti-trawling artificial reef sits to the right of the seca and is described as a sunfish cleaning station. The route is about 150 metres each way. The usual plan turns the dive when a third of the air is gone and returns north along the wall in shallower water, which is where the safety stop falls.

One short line along the cliff gathers a buried boat, an orange-coral wall and a seamount, all within 15 metres. The boat gives the dive its name and its sense of history: only the frames and the railing posts remain, standing out of the white sand. The seca adds height to a dive that otherwise runs along the foot of the cliff, with hunting fish that give it movement in open water.

Between the two, the wall holds the dive's small life. Astroides calycularis covers the rock, several nudibranchs are reported on it, including the dotted sea slug and the violet sea slug, and the crevices hold morays and conger eels. A shallow route this short leaves time to look closely at all of it.

A large cave near the end of the route is reported to shelter a resident lobster, and an old fishing net is draped over the rocks beside it. Keep your distance from the netted rocks and carry a cutting tool. Torpedo rays lie partly buried on the sand along the route, so hover and keep your fins off the bottom. The cliff swim from Cantarrijan beach is over 600 metres and not recommended, and changing conditions can make the return dangerous, so this is a dive to reach by boat.