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Berlengas Dive Spots |
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Baía do Cerro do Cão |
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Max.Depth 25 Meters
Certification PADI OWD |
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Dog´s Rock Bay - This bay is in the northern part of the Berlenga, contiguous to a rock that has the silhouette of a lying dog. It is a bay cut by canyons, always parallel to the rock and one dives from one canyon to the next. It has very interesting passages where for times we find ourselves underneath arches. In the beaten walls next to the Berlenga it has always lots of fish and it is frequent to see shoals of small pelagics in the mid water.
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Cova-do-sono |
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Max.Depth 12 meters
Certifiction PADI OWD |
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Cova–do-sono/Hollow-of-sleep- This is the simplest dive of the Berlengas. Cova-do-sono is a sheltered bay, with maximum depth of 12 meters and in which many times we find ourselves at depths of 2 meters. This can give the idea of an uninteresting diving spot but it is not like that at all. Cova-do-sono has caves with great inhabitants (Forkbeard and Lobsters), has some walls full of holes to look at , excellent for “macro” photo, has feeding areas where the amount of Sea-bream and Cow-bream seem not to have a end. To complete the picture the incursion of pelagics, Jacks and Mackerel, in the bay is frequent. They come to feed on the shoals of small fish that look for shelter there. All this makes that Cova-do-sono is frequently chosen for the second dive of the day, when the divers look for a calm spot but with many points of interest. It is a diving without significant current, with usual visibility of 10/15 meters.
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Parede Rinchoa |
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Max.Depth 35 meters
Certification PADI AOWD |
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Rinchoa wall - Another new spot from Haliotis. As the name indicates this wall is close to the Rinchão. It consists of a reef head that starts at 13 meters with a wall until 35. The wall faces north and is forrowed with the typical red Gorgonia ( Paramuricea clavata). It has small caves also inhabited for great Conger and is an area where one can sight Great Sea-Bass in the deep and Amberjacks in the higher parts.
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Rinchão |
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Max.Depth 32 meters
Certification PADI OWD |
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Rinchão - This reef is located north of the Berlenga. Dangerous for the navigation, it is a fantastic spot for diving. The head sometimes appears out of the water, in great tides, and it has a slope where the water goes up and the fish feeds that goes down until 30 meters. The amount of fish is frequently amazing, Sea-bream, Cow-bream, Sea-bass, Amberjacks and Trigger-fish are frequent. In the deeper part it has walls covered of red gorgonia (Paramuricea Clavata) and one wreck, Gomes VIII, of which we can see the boiler, bits of the engine and still some structure. It is an exposed dive with frequent currents.
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Tromba do Elefante |
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Max.Depth 13 meters
Certification PADI OWD |
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Tromba do Elefante/Elephant's head - This is a sheltered spot in the southern coast of Berlenga. When seas are tuff we can still dive here, where there are lots of cavellets to look for and fish sometimes feed along the the wall, near to the tip of the island.
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