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★★★★☆ La Pedrosa / Cala Pedrosa
It is a wall dive inside a wide tunnel where you can find multiple yellow nudibranchs, scorpions, and polyps. Near the east exit of the tunnel, there is a chimney which reaches 8-10 meters deep. The use of a flashlight is necessary.
★★★★☆ Reggio Messina (Wreck)
The Reggio Messina was built in Italy in 1970. It is a 122m long ferry. It sank in 1991 to make it an artificial reef. It is located on a sandy bottom at 35 meters, so it will be better to visit by the superior structure. It is now broken into 3 pieces.
★★★★☆ Carall Bernat
Depth 4-45 meters. One of the most visited dives of the Medes Islands for its diversity and quantity of fauna, we will start the descent at the anchor buoy located on the south face of the Carall.
★★★★☆ El Negre del Falaguer
This is one of the most popular areas of the Montgrí coast for two reasons: on the one hand, the great versatility of its seabed, which allows for scuba diving initiations and deep dives, and on the other hand, the shelter it offers on Tramuntana days.
★★★★☆ Puig de la Sardina
Underwater rocky complex of great beauty located about 200m from the coast. This underwater mountain formed by 3 points, which are at 14m, 22m and 27m, exhibit on their walls a large coating of red and yellow gorgonians, and towards the outside we will find large banks of cirvies and sorels.
★★★★☆ Les Ferranelles
Diving site where we find depths between 5 and 36 meters. Coral beds, oceanic posidonia between 8 and 15 meters and sandy areas from 22 meters, diving is done on the south side of Ferranelles island where we usually find the greatest diversity in the area.
★★★★☆ Punta Salines
Farthest place of Salinas, we will find an area between 15 and 28 meters deep with a rocky bottom, in the same wall of Punta Salinas there is a wall of red gorgonia with a maximum depth of 28 meters. A good point to make a half turn and return the boat safely.
★★★★☆ Pedra de Déu
North face of the meda Gran, the small rock that emerges from the sea gives its name to the dive site, low rocky bottom between 5 and 20 meters, towards Pedra de Deu we will find a greater depth with vertical walls that descend to 42 meters.
★★★★☆ Tascó Petit
It is the most south oriented island of the Medes Islands, we will find depths between 8 meters at the side of Tasco Petit and 42 meters to the east. At the anchor buoy we already find 18 and 25 meters, the dive is exposed to the wind and currents of any direction...
★★★★☆ Tascó Gros
The anchor buoy is located on the north side of Tascó Gros, an area between 15 and 40 meters deep, the dive goes around the island, this place is completely exposed to the currents and the tramuntana wind. The bottom is coraligenous and we will find big rocks and red gorgonians.
★★★★☆ El Dofí Sud
The anchor buoy is located in the south of Meda Petita, the depths will be between 10 meters and 40 meters outside the tunnels. The different galleries under the island create spectacular backlighting, on the same wall of the island we can find red coral at very shallow depths.
★★★★☆ La Reina
Diving on the east side of the Meda Gran, the name of the queen is motivated by a small cave that we will find on top of the island, the depths that we will find are 8 and 24 meters, underwater there is a limestone bottom and a large platform that rises almost to the surface...
★★★★☆ La Vaca Sud
Very well protected from the north wind, this set of tunnels that cross the island from one side to the other, we find them between 14 and 24 meters. We can find currents inside the tunnels, from north or south... Undoubtedly these tunnels create an iconic place of the Medes Islands.
★★★★☆ La Pota del Llop
The continuation of the walls of the Pedra de Déu, continuing towards the east, leads us to the area of Pota del Llop, a name that comes from a formation on the outer wall that resembles a wolf's footprint.
★★★★☆ Embarcador del Francès
Placed in the Nord of Meda gran, near el Guix and Salpatxot. Easy spot to dive without a lot of depth and where you can see different type of fishes.