Green Turtle Diving Center
1310 Porto Novo - Santo Antão
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★★★★☆ Sharkys
10 minutes distance from the harbour, we find a small reef: on a yellow sandy bottom. Starting at 5 meters, to a maximum depth of 10 mts, we dive along the isolated blocks of reef between the sand , looking for small holes were we can spot nurse sharks, rays, turtles and a lots of morey eals..
★★★★☆ Find Wally
At Porto Novo Harbor we have a muck dive. It´s a shore dive with easy entrance, also for night dives , where you can spot a lot of marine life, almost impossible to find during the day dives. Normally the main goal is to find frogfish , between all tyspes of trash, from plastic bottles to fish lines....
★★★★☆ Molhe de. Fora
In the outside of the harbor , it´s the artificial pier. We start on the begining of the pier , a sandy bottom with all the artificial rocky part on the right until the entry of the harbor nearby the ferry dock zone. All the marine life is hiden between the rocks, so it can be useful a torch to look for the holes.
★★★★☆ Atlantis Palace
Big cavern with sandy bottom, dive start at the deepest entrance and during all time is passed exploring all small holes inside the cavern, looking for species. There is 2 other entrances on the shallow part. Cavern ceiling all cover with yellow coral polips. Normally big schools of fish from one entrance to other
★★★★★ Secret garden
35 Minuter Northeast of Porto Novo, we find “secret“ . Its a sandy bottom slop ,with all the rocky part on your right. Deepest part around 30 meters, and average dept around 15 meters. A lot of small holes full of marine life. We finsih the dive in a isolated rock, usally with turtles livin there.
★★★★☆ Critters Walk
Very calm and relax dive starting form praia do vulção , sandy platform under the boat, go along, the reef looking for small creatures. Your objective is to look into the reef small holes and creviches, trying to discover rare animals, nice dive for macro photographers/lovers. Avg depth 8 m ; maximum depth 12m.
★★★★☆ Ponta do Pesqueiro Preto
Very calm dive. We start on a bay ,in a bottom full of small rocks, all rocky part on the left hand, with sandy part on the right. We go along the rocky part, start going up near the coast, exploring the small holes were we can find several species. We end the dive in a isoletd rock under the boat at 5 mts.
★★★★★ Baixa do Boi
Small islet isolated near Janela in the north part of the island. We start in the most proteted part in the western point of the islet, and dive with the rocky part on our left, until we reach the end of the islet around 40 meters. A lot of marine life moving around the reef, and an eye in the blue is a mandatory.
★★★★☆ Arenas
Reef with big isolated blocks of rocks. We dive along the sand and the reef searching for small stuff, but always schools of fish around us. Some small arenas were we can spot some rays and turtles sometimes. we finsih the dive in a big cavern with a arch full of schools of fish. ave depth 8 m; max 14 m.
★★★★☆ Jardim das Gorgónias
On Paço de Pau Bay we find this Gorgonias garden. On a sandy bottom with small rocky canoyns we dive along the sand and rock exploring all holes looking for differents species. all the bottom is full of gorgonias along the away, that makes it a very beautifull dive. Average depth 15 mts ; max depth 20 mts.
★★★☆☆ Central Station
near the end of Paço de Pau bay, we found this spot. shallow dive moving around sand and rocky part with a lot of holes to explore searchring for many diferent species. Some small caverns/holes that we can enter with the ceiling completely covered of yellow and orange coral polips, and shools of fish everywear.
★★★★☆ Ponta de Peça
At the last point before you reach Tarrafal we find this spot. Rocky wall descending until more than 40 meters, full of big rocks that makes holes for the several species. Sometimes because we are in a point cape you can have some current and if you put an eye on the blue we can have some big suprises like mantas.
★★★★☆ Parede do Tarrafal
In the bay of Tarrafal, quite close to the shore we find this spot. Starting on a rocky plateaux at 6 mts , we start descending until around 20 mts following the wall in our right side. Exploring the several holes that exist in the wall, we can find several diferent species, always surrounded by shools of fish.
★★★★☆ Morro Branco
Quite relaxing dive: Starting on a slowly descend we find a shallow plateux of rock around 15 meteres maximum depth. we go along the rocky part exploring all holes and big rocks that hide several species. Sometimes we can find some current, so we can go on drift diving enjoying all the marine life around us.
★★★★☆ Pipi da Menina
In a small bay we find this ambience dive. It´s full of underwater passages formed by layers of lava, covered of small polips of orange and yellow coral. We move aound the rocky part, following the plateux of rock almost until 30 meters. We pass all dive exploring all holes and entries, in search of marine life
Opening Hours
| Monday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Tuesday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
Opening Hours
| Monday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Tuesday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 - 17:00 |