The wreck lies close enough to Funchal that XPoint Madeira lists it as a five-minute run by boat, the shortest of any named wreck in the area, and the whole of it sits between 30 and 33 metres on a single sandy bottom. The route runs from the seabed rudder, along the broken hull, and up to deck level where the boilers sit: a compact, single-pass tour, not a sprawling wreck penetration. Visibility on one documented dive was around 20 metres, enough to take in the wreck's full length despite its broken state, and the group covered it quickly given the limited bottom time the depth allows, before heading back up past a handful of bream. The short profile is why operators pair nitrox with this dive: it buys back some of the bottom time the depth otherwise takes away.

Pronto's draw is a real, if under-documented, 1929 wreck loss lying close enough to Funchal, five minutes by boat, that Funchal centres slot it in as a quick add-on between other dives instead of a dedicated trip. No buoy sits on the wreck, and that is deliberate: local dive centres leave it unmarked because, in the words of one operator quoted on the dive, "local fishermen would soon pluck all of the life from it if it were marked."1 The result is a wreck kept a little rougher around the edges on purpose, in exchange for the fish it still holds.

Pronto was a 30-metre steam cargo vessel, built in 1895, that carried fresh water from Madeira to the neighbouring island of Porto Santo. She sank on 29 April 1929, at 5pm, outside the Ilheu da Pontinha, a few hundred metres from the Funchal shoreline, with 200 tons of water aboard. As one first-hand press account puts it, "Before it became a diving attraction, it serviced the island as a cargo vessel and took fresh water to a smaller neighbouring island called Porto Santo."1 Neither account explains how she was lost beyond a secondhand description of an explosion.

Expect a short, purposeful dive: depth and bottom time dictate the pace, and most divers are back at the boat with time to spare for a second dive the same day. There is no fixed mooring line, so descend and ascend on your guide's line; without a buoy to steer by, the wreck can look a little different, and a little rougher, from one visit to the next.