In El Hierro you can practice all types of immersions, from the calmest ones, de-energized and at shallow depths, with a high experience grade is required.
Here you will find some of the main zones of scuba diving in Spain, such as the scuba diving zone of El Bajón or the scuba diving zone of La Restinga of El Hierro, among others. All of them will impress you with their incredible submarine landscapes full of life, richness, and a big ecologic value. The seabed of the island is an authentic paradise for every scuba diving lover. The temperature of the water is normally between 18 and 25º C during the whole year which attracts different tropical and Mediterranean species, which cohabitate together in the sea. The dense vegetation that covers the rocky shallows makes the island the perfect refugee for a big variety of flora and fauna and, on some occasions, a zone of stopping by for pelagic animals.
We make excursions every day. Usually, two in the morning but, depending on the necessities of the scuba divers, we can organize a maximum of four immersions, three in the morning and a nocturn one.
Most of the immersion zones are just a few minutes away from El Muelle de la Restinga. El Mar de las Calmas, by being sheltered from the Alisios wind has good weather practically all days of the year. Inside of the reserve, anchoring is only possible with one embarkment per buoy, which permits an almost exclusive scuba diving without massification of scuba divers.
We also dive on the East coast of the island, where their immersions are exactly as spectacular. Occasionally, we can organize trips to other scuba diving points of the island such as la Caleta, Roques de Salmor, Baja de La Palometa, Roque Bonanza, or Baja Nacón.
EL DESIERTO
Located in the west limit of the Marine Reserve, this area starts near the seashore with the rocky bottom covered with seaweed that abruptly falls creating a rather tortuous path at not more than 10m depth. This serial has numerous cracks, arches, and small caves...
BAJA ROSARIO
This small drop rises until reaching 7 meters of depth from a rocky bottom furrowed by small tongues of lava, with some stains of sand and above of which there are numerous stone blocks. This structure forms a lot of recesses and cracks dissimulated by the abundance...
EL SALTO
The lava tongue that forms the punta del salto continues underwater and goes down progressively until being confused with the circular rocky bottom. In the least deep area, the laguna de Roca is drilled by small caves from diving and a tunnel with lightning entrances...
TACORÓN
Relaxed and enjoyable diving in front of the natural swimming pool of Tacorón. We start descending in front of the tip, which is the most abrupt area and gives way to a flatter background, and with sand stains in the environment of the -20m in that we can see...
CUEVA DEL DIABLO
This diving is done altogether the rockfish cantil, where it’s located the “Cueva del diablo” is an earth cave very well-known in which you can enter by swimming or even with a small boat if the tide is adequate. Near there is a very wide cavern that opens above a...
PUNTA LAJIAL
In this zone, the rocky bottom has a very pronounced slope and homogenous that goes from around -10m to more than -40m. From a certain depth, the bottom is made of lava dams perpendicular to the coast and that breaks the routine of the slope. In these embossments,...
PUNTA LAS CAÑAS
Located in the west part of the damping area, the diving starts in a plain zone that keeps winning in inclination in the measure that we go away from the coast. In the slope we could highlight big eroded rocks of dispersed and various dikes perpendicular to the coast...
LA HERRADURA
Excellent diving very near to La Restinga. The bottom is made of cliffs and elevations that alter themselves and work as scenarios of an abundant piscicultural fauna. The prominent groups are breams and white breams, although in our journey we will find a variety of...
EL RINCÓN
This immersion starts just where the jetty breakwater was linked to the veril of Punta Restinga. It is usually the most guarded and relaxed of all that we do in this verile, especially in terms of the current. We go down with the breakwater bonuses at the sight and we...
Muelle La Restinga (Night-Time)
MUELLE DE LA RESTINGA ( NOCTURNA) A night-time immersion in which we can see from small crustaceans to large tablecloths. All the diving is developed at the shelter of the breakwaters of el Puerto de La Restinga, and only a heavy sea bottom can prevent diving. The...
PUNTA RESTINGA
The area of Punta Restinga is just in front of the fishing dock of the popularity of La Restinga, in the Southern part of El Hierro’s island. Is a tongue of submarine lava with a very varied relief: cliffs, veriles, sandy platforms, caves. In these bottoms, the diver...
El BAJÓN
A sharp submarine mountain of vertical walls where the currents feed a varied and abundant marine fauna Located in the Southern part of El Hierro, in front of the fishermen’s town of La Restinga, this goes down two mounds of nine meters depth, which is one of the best...
