Playa Chica

Playa Chica is Lanzarote's teaching pool, night-dive venue and photo studio in one. From an easy beach entry, sand slopes past garden eel colonies and cruising stingrays to a reef line where seahorses cling near the harbor wall and octopus hunt in the open. Advanced divers carry on down the wall to the Cathedral, a high-vaulted cavern at around 30 m with a resident grouper usually holding court at the entrance. The site's popularity is deserved and visible: expect classes, photographers and a steady procession of fins on summer days.

اللحظة التي جئت من أجلها: Seahorses and garden eels, the Cathedral cavern, effortless logistics

التضاريس: Sand slope and volcanic reef dropping to a wall with the Cathedral cavern at about 30 m

نقطة الدخول: Walk-in entries from a small town beach and harbor wall in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote, probably the busiest shore site in the Canaries.

المخاطر: Boat traffic near the harbor mouth and depth creep on the wall; the Cathedral is a genuine 30 m dive.

الحفاظ على البيئة البحرية: Seahorse populations are sensitive to harassment: no repositioning, no flash barrages, no touching.

نيتروكس: يستحق الأمر هنا: الملفات الشخصية تقع في النطاق الذي يُمدّد فيه الهواء المدعّم (نيتروكس) وقت الغوص دون توقف تمديدًا ملموسًا، مع التدريب اللازم لاستخدامه.