Dive sites

Marina del Este

What a dive site! This little bay have been declared Natural reserve in January 2025.
It is the perfect place to go for an easy dive, a deeper dive, your first diving experience or for snorkeling.

Entering from the shore, there’s a reef on the right and one on the left, with the center of the bay consisting of a sandy seafloor. There are fantastic rock formations all the way to the end of the bay, which not only provide a home for many marine species, but offer swim throughs for divers as well.

How deep?
From 8m to 25m

How many dive sites?
6

What can I see?
Schools of sardines, crabs, sponges, mola mola (AKA moonfish, AKA sunfish), octopuses, castanet clouds, ‘Hands of Death’ sponges, nudibranchs (at least 40 different species), big anemones, flowered corals, stonefish, starfish, flying gurnards and much more.

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La Herradura

The best time to dive La Herradura and its rocky formations is in the early morning, where the great contrast in light and the clear, calm water create an absolutely beautiful color spectrum.

In fact dive around rocks is amazing: full of flora and fauna! Large pinnacles rise from the sea bed, covered in marine life and full of color, and there’s also a lovely swim throughs.

How deep?
From 6m to 20m

How many dive sites?
4

What can I see?
Bream, salemas, large octopuses, alcyonium, tripletail wrasses, soft and hard corals, mola mola, castanet clouds, moray eels, crabs, nudibranchs, big anemones and much more.

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Maro Cerro Gordo

The natural reserve of Maro Cerro Gordo is nature galore, both inside and outside the water. With its high cliffs and small beaches (which you can reach by walking), scuba diving in this place is possible just when using a boat. The water conditions also have to be perfect because of the open location that’s home to many large species of marine life.

How deep?
From 6m to 25m

How many dive sites?
6

What can I see?
Bream, salemas, large octopuses, alcyonium, tripletail wrasses, soft and hard corals, mola mola, castanet clouds, moray eels, crabs, nudibranchs, big anemones and much more.

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Areal picture of the natural reserve of Maro Cerro Gordo. Famous dive site in Costa del Sol

Barco del Arroz

THE WRECK IN TORROX COSTA
EL BARCO DEL ARROZ

Most people know this wreck off the coast of Torrox as the “Barco del Arroz” (the Rice Boat). Originally built in Belfast and called the “Optic”, the Spanish Sociedad Anónima Navegación y Industria acquired this steamboat in 1907. They then changed its name to “El Delfín” (the Dolphin). It had a maximum capacity of 1,254 tons and was 80 meters in length.

During the Spanish Civil War, El Delfín would put out to sea on a regular route from Malaga up the Spanish coast and back. On January 30th, 1937, the boat was on the way back from one of these runs and and loaded with flour, oil, and cod, when it was unsuccessfully bombed by German planes, remaining afloat on the day following the attack. Then, on the night of January 31st, the Italian submarine “Ciro Menotti”, under the orders of Lieutenant Vittorio Moccagatta, fired two torpedoes at El Delfín, sending it to the seabed for good.

You can still see the structure of the steamer lying in the shallows in front of Torrox Costa.

How deep?
Up to 6m

How many different dives can be done?
1

What can I see?
Among the remains of the ship you will be able to see pejepuercos (AKA triggerfish), conger eels, octopuses, flat fish, starfish, sardines, rainbow fish, salemas and chernas (AKA groupers).

Do you want to know more?
Read this article about the wreck!