House reEf Spot: “Cave Ponta Oliveira”

This east facing house reef dive site Ponta Oliveira Cave, is an Eldorado for those who love the cave feeling and still want to find their way back safely. Here, full attention is focused on the light-shy cave dwellers, which seem like creatures from a foreign world in the cone of light from the underwater lamps. You can observe Atlantic dancing shrimps, golden shrimps, reef lobsters, locust lobster, mullet kings, warty umbrella snails, peach nudibranchs, stone sponges, black corals and, with a bit of luck, one of the now rare Atlantic monk seals, that regularly retreat here. What more could you want :-)! The special feature of the very large Ponta da Oliveira cave is that, despite its size, it is easy to dive, provided that the buoyancy is very good. With a length of 55 m, a width of 20 m, a maximum depth of 12 m and a large air bubble at the end for surfacing, it not only invites experienced divers, but also offers an easy and yet exciting introduction to cave diving for good divers who have no cave experience.