Trumba do Elefante

A rock wall runs along Berlenga Grande's southern tip, sheltered enough to stay calm when more exposed corners of the archipelago are not. Above the surface, a rock formation shaped like an elephant's trunk gives the site its name; below it, the wall is worked through with small caves and holes where conger eels and lobster share the same cracks. The rock meets a sandy bottom at around 13 to 15 metres, the whole dive sitting comfortably within Open Water limits. Close to the wall, small reef life dominates: nudibranchs and anemones tucked into the rock, with red mullet working the sand at the base and amberjacks occasionally shoaling in open water beyond it.

The elephant-trunk rock is what sets this dive apart from its Berlengas neighbours: a named, visible landmark above the water that gives a shape and a story to the wall beneath it, unlike a wreck's cargo or a cave's passage. Primavera nearby is a broken 1902 steamer worked at 16 to 24 metres, and Cova do Sono is a cave-tunnel-bay circuit through overhead sections; this is a straightforward open wall instead, no swim-through, no penetration, just a shallow rock face and the small creatures living in its holes. It reads as a relaxed, photography-friendly dive built around close-in detail: small holes, small animals, no depth or drama to chase.

The dive stays inside Open Water limits either way the contested depth reads, and it is consistently described as calm and easy. It sits inside the Reserva Natural das Berlengas; the BerlengasPass is a land-access fee for stepping onto the island itself, not a diving permit, and does not apply to a boat dive that stays offshore. Location on Berlenga Grande's own coast points to the standard Berlengas-sector day trip; the separate Farilhoes trip covers sites further out. No operator page names this site among its stops by name, so confirm the itinerary with whoever you book.