Punta del Vaporcillo

The point gives a mixed dive rather than a single structure. There are cliffs dropping onto sandy bottoms, crevices cut into the rock, small grottos in the face, and a wall decorated with orange Astroides coral, the same coral that grows on shaded rock along this coast. Published depths start at six metres and reach eighteen or twenty-one at the deepest, so the whole site sits inside Open Water limits.

Work the wall first for the coral and the crevices, then the sand for what sits on it. Scorpionfish hold still against the rock and are easy to swim past, conger eels use the holes, octopus and cuttlefish come out over the mixed ground, and seabream pass along the drop. Being shallow, it takes the long, slow profile that suits a camera better than a route with a target at the end of it.