Dive Site Chimney

The "Chimney" dive site is something very special. It's the first dive site we discovered after opening our dive center in 1994. Back then, we went out to sea in two small inflatable boats and used a 3D depth sounder to scan the underwater landscape from the surface. When we suddenly saw several drops in depth on the depth sounder, we dropped anchor and dived down. We found the chimney.

The typical volcanic reef off the coast of Puerto de la Cruz, formed at a depth of 15-20 meters by a lava flow that suddenly ends and drops in a steep wall from about 20 meters to a depth of 35 meters. In the upper part of the reef, there is a vertical chimney approximately 5 meters in diameter with a side exit at the bottom. We dive like Santa Claus from the top into the chimney and emerge from the "fire pit" below into the living room with the "carpet" formed by a coral field with red gorgonians and yellow fan corals. At the eastern end, the steep wall forms a canyon approximately 15m wide with three gigantic lava bridges. The spectacular lava tunnel system below is incredible.

After diving beneath the canyon with its bridges, we return to the anchor above the bridges.

The boat trip to this dive site is only 10 minutes. Since this dive is very deep and the no-decompression time is always used to the fullest, this dive is only suitable for advanced divers.

Bream, moray eels, sardines, hogfish, groupers, sometimes rays and barracudas, red gorgonians and yellow fan corals, slipper lobsters.