Barda de l'Illa Negra

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What you'll see (18)

Mediterranean Rainbow WrasseCoris julisseen 41× near here

snakelocks anemoneAnemonia viridisseen 39× near here

Common Two-banded SeabreamDiplodus vulgarisseen 37× near here

Incognito GobyGobius incognitusseen 35× near here

White Sea BreamDiplodus sargusseen 29× near here

Salema PorgySarpa salpaseen 28× near here

Cratena SlugCratena peregrinaseen 27× near here

Violescent Sea-whipParamuricea clavataseen 27× near here

Tompot BlennyParablennius gattorugineseen 26× near here

Black-faced BlennyTripterygion delaisiseen 25× near here

Five-spotted WrasseSymphodus roissaliseen 24× near here

Striped Red MulletMullus surmuletusseen 24× near here

Common OctopusOctopus vulgarisseen 23× near here

Mediterranean MorayMuraena helenaseen 23× near here

Black ScorpionfishScorpaena porcusseen 22× near here

Brown Brittle StarOphioderma longicaudumseen 22× near here

Red-black TriplefinTripterygion tripteronotumseen 21× near here

Atlantic Purple Sea UrchinParacentrotus lividusseen 20× near here

Planning a trip

8–14 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

10,780km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 42 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

Busiest Jul, Aug, Sep · almost nobody dives it Jan, Nov, Dec.

From 13,565 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

70% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~20h 24m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightBarcelona (BCN)~17hFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~54 minRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~2hAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatBarda de l'Illa Negra~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Barda de l'Illa Negra on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Barcelona

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Max depth: 31 m
Entry: boat
Type: yes
Island: la Catedral
Country: Spain
Marks: 41°56.654'N 3°13.742'E
Position: 41.9442, 3.2290

Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.