El Bajón

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What you'll see (21)

Eastern Atlantic TrumpetfishAulostomus strigosusseen 26× near here

European ParrotfishSparisoma cretenseseen 25× near here

Black MorayMuraena augustiseen 25× near here

Dusky GrouperEpinephelus marginatusseen 23× near here

Horned BreamDiplodus cervinusseen 17× near here

Madeira ScorpionfishScorpaena maderensisseen 15× near here

Scrawled FilefishAluterus scriptusseen 13× near here

Brown MorayGymnothorax unicolorseen 13× near here

Mediterranean Slipper LobsterScyllarides latusseen 12× near here

Leopard EelMyrichthys pardalisseen 12× near here

Round Fantail StingrayTaeniurops grabatusseen 12× near here

Macaronesian TobyCanthigaster capistrataseen 11× near here

Blunt-tentacled AnemoneTelmatactis cricoidesseen 11× near here

Regal Sea GoddessFelimare pictaseen 11× near here

Guinean PufferSphoeroides marmoratusseen 10× near here

Yellowmouth BarracudaSphyraena viridensisseen 9× near here

Wide-eyed FlounderBothus podasseen 9× near here

Planehead FilefishStephanolepis hispidaseen 9× near here

Silver TrevallyPseudocaranx dentexseen 9× near here

Conus canariensisseen 9× near here

East Atlantic Redlip BlennyOphioblennius atlanticusseen 8× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

13,023km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 6 dive sites within 25km.

When people dive it

Busiest Apr · almost nobody dives it Feb, Mar.

From 1,395 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

Dive Crew is a dive group from Singapore. Members plan trips here, log their dives, and share their photos of each site.

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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

~23h 33m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightTenerife South (TFS)~19h 39mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~1h 24mRoad 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 boatEl Bajón~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 El Bajón on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Tenerife South

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

Island: El Hierro
Country: Spain
Marks: 27°38.127'N 17°59.364'W
Position: 27.6355, -17.9894

Site website →

Where it is

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Nearby

OpenStreetMap has no other dive sites mapped around here — only the operators below. That means nobody has added them, not that there is nothing to dive.

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.