Mar Menuda

There is no single fixed route here. The catalogue describes different itineraries over pre-coralligenous rock running from 17 metres down to 30, so what you dive depends on the centre, the group and the day. The shallower lines sit at the top of that band; the deeper ones take you out over the pre-coralligenous growth that gives the place its character, and that is where the profile ends up closest to a full recreational depth.

The life is the resident Mediterranean set rather than anything passing through. Groupers hold station on the rock, conger and moray eels sit back in the cracks, and seahorses are on the catalogue's list for the site. Schools of bream and salps drift over the top, with damselfish and gobies down among the stone, nudibranchs and flatworms on the rock faces and gorgonians on the pre-coralligenous growth. Rays cross the open ground, and barracuda are listed here too.

Mar Menuda is rated by the catalogue for night dives as well as day dives, and the shape of the site suits that: the departure is from a town beach with a diving centre at the foot of it, the depth band is familiar and the same rock reads differently once the torches are on. Congers and the nudibranchs that are easy to miss in daylight are the reason to come back after dark rather than dive somewhere new.