SCUBA DIVING IN HUELVA


The best areas of immersion of the Huelva province are between two mouths of the Odiel River, near the capital, and the Guadiana River in the town of Ayamonte. So the contributions of materials from both river systems will reduce the visibility of marine waters, whose funds are constituted mostly by sand. Only one of his five dive sites, is restricted to experienced divers. In all, the best diving season is summer.
Golden Stone: about a mile from the coast, facing the lighthouse of El Rompido, is this immersion that takes its name from the most abundant fish in the area. A large number of specimens of gold are sheltered in the hollows of the rocky bottom, like a rib, perpendicular to the coast has. A small underwater mountain range about 15 m.wide, three high and one hundred feet in length. If we want to explore it fully, we need to do several dives. At certain times of the year, a large number of rays and torpedoes or tremors meet here to spawn. The dive to a depth not exceeding 12 m., is suitable for beginner divers.
Willy is a rocky area consists of many small flat slabs and about 150 m. height, which is four miles from the coast, off the bat house to a maximum depth of 16 m.The slabs are on a sandy bottom, separated from each other and, if we explore one by one, discover conger and moray eels, lobsters as well as large, between the cracks and crevices of your outline. The dive is suitable for beginners.
The Corvinus: it is a rocky area of ​​wide slabs, five miles off the town of Isla Cristina Huelva. The rocks are very interesting corridors for wildlife in them blanket. The most striking species are sea bass and red gorgonians and white. With the help of a flashlight, we can also see conger, moray eels and lobsters. Immersion, which does not exceed 22 m. deep, is suitable for beginners.
Warrior Empire: ideal for those who want to dive on wrecks, and that immersion is carried from the wreckage of the merchant ship that gives its name to the point of immersion and lying on a sandy bottom at 18 m. deep, 2.5 miles off the coast of Ayamonte, opposite the mouth of the Guadiana River, seven miles from the marina of Isla Cristina. The ship, the English flag, sank in 1941, following an air attack by the Germans. Can still be seen remains of the artillery, gorgonians and fish with the rocks themselves as urtas, bream, eels and large schools of grunts and croakers from. It takes some experience to undertake this journey.