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GRAN CANARIA - DIVE CENTRES
Introduction | Hotels | Dive Centres | Late Offers
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7Mares Las Canteras - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 7Mares is located a few metres from Las Canteras beach, the main tourist centre of Las Palmas city. They are number 12 on Calle (street) Tenerife, almost opposite the Mercado del Puerto (the port market). 7Mares is home to two of the best dive sites in Europe; El Cabrón and El Arona. The marine reserve of El Cabrón is certainly the island's most famous site, for its stunning underwater rock formations and its abundance of life. It's an ideal location, having five different dives along a few metres of coast. El Cabrón beach can be found in the Agüimes district of Gran Canaria, or to be more precise, in the Arinaga area. It is named after a Portuguese captain, named Cabrón. Within the area, there are a variety of five dive sites, suitable for different conditions and levels of experience, making it the ideal dive location. These are: • La Punta de la Monja (intermediate level) El Arona is a great Spanish merchant ship that lies 25 minutes out from the harbour, in a southerly direction. She sank in 1972 whilst being towed to port with a fire in the machine room. She measures more than 110m in length and 15m wide, resting at 35m on her starboard side in an area of slit and strong currents. To explore a ship of this size, in which the shallowest point is 30m, requires good planning to achieve the maximum bottom time. An advanced certificate of diving is also necessary. She has tall masts, large holds and a salmonetes (stripped mullet) and red and yellow gorgonias on the hull as well as plenty of barracudas, medregales (lesser amberjacks), fulas (damselfish), bogas (bogue), peces trompetas (trumpet fish), meros (dusky groupers), pulpo (octopus), catalufas (glasseye) and chuchos (stingray). In general the marine life here is much larger than most other wrecks in the area, making this one of the best wreck dives in Gran Canaria. |
 
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Atlantic Diving - Puerto de Mogan Atlantic Diving is a member of the PADI International Resort Association. They offer PADI courses and experience programs, from introduction level to divemaster. Their instructors are professionals with a wide range of experience. They are able to speak in English, Spanish, German and Italian. The facilities at the center include 12 and 15-liter tanks, fresh water tank to rinse the equipments, storeroom for the gears, showers, toilets and lecture room. There is also a swimming pool just few meters from the dive center, and also a confined water area. Gears for renting and buying are available. The nearest recompression chamber (24 hours access) can be reached within 10 minutes. |
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Davy Jones Diving - Playa de Arinaga This PADI 5-Star Gold Palm Resort is the closest dive centre to the fabulous El Cabrón Marine reserve at Arinaga and the only BSAC Premier school on the island. Being next to one of the best and most spectacular dive sites in the Canary Islands means that they have some fantastic dives and great fun as their knowledge instructors lead you through this fabulous treasure-trove of marine life. The El Cabrón Marine Reserve at Arinaga on Gran Canaria is one of the ten best dive sites in Spain, and has its own guide book. Not only is it packed with fish, the variety and bio-diversity have surprised and astounded many visitors. Barracudas, morays, five types of stingray, grunts, trumpetfish, bream, dameselfish, parrotfish, wrasse and cephalopods are all found in huge numbers. Different seasons can bring angelshark, triggerfish, blue shark and many other species into the area. The underwater lava scenery is stunning. There are caves to explore to seek out the vivid red Canary Island Lobsterette, and night diving can bring nocturnal species including squid, red-legged octopus and golden balearic congers. The dive centre has been operating now for seven years and has built a reputation for professionalism and quality of service. It has the only 3-dimensional underwater map of the area - a great feature when the dive briefing takes place; plenty of equipment, as well as supplying free tea and coffee all day. Beacuse all the diving takes place in a marine reserve, you can take specialist courses such as the PADI Digital Underwater Photography course here. |
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