Fuerteventura

Diving splits between two bases. From the marina at Caleta de Fuste a boat reaches Castillo Reef in five to ten minutes and the exposed Nuevo Horizonte Reef in about fifteen, so a morning is two tanks with the surface interval back at the quay. In the north, centres in Corralejo dive Las Salinas, Archies Bay and El Jablito and run the short crossing to Lobos Island. Shore days are the cheap alternative: Pozo Negro is a beach entry with little or no wave, and La Lajita is shallow sand used as a training area.

The rock is volcanic and it comes in steps rather than slopes. At El Muellito the reef edge sits at 7 m and then drops in stages — 15, 19, 32 m — before running past 40, with a detached rock pin sheltering young groupers. El Fafo descends a narrow gorge from 23 m to 32 m where the reef opens into a portal, and Calamareo off Lobos falls vertically from a 12 m platform to 22 m through overhangs hung with red gorgonians. Seagrass meadows cover the sand around Lobos, holding bream, wrasse and grouper, while eagle rays, morays, octopus, cuttlefish and stingrays up to two metres work the reef itself.

It suits divers who want range across a week: easy beach entries, a sand training area, and outer pinnacles at 30 to 40 m with moderate-to-strong drift and no shelter from swell, which is Advanced and Deep territory. Lobos is worth understanding before booking. The islet is a natural park in its own right, with a free permit required to land since 2019 and a cap of 400 visitors a day, and it sits here only because Corralejo operators run the trips as part of the island's diving. Divers set on an underwater museum or a dense shore-diving strip are better served on Lanzarote, thirty minutes away by ferry from Corralejo.