Cala Roja- Cabo de Palos

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What you'll see (19)

Gold Blotch GrouperEpinephelus costaeseen 157× near here

Dusky GrouperEpinephelus marginatusseen 53× near here

Purple Sea StarOphidiaster ophidianusseen 52× near here

Yellowmouth BarracudaSphyraena viridensisseen 50× near here

Mediterranean Rainbow WrasseCoris julisseen 35× near here

Mediterranean Red Sea StarEchinaster sepositusseen 32× near here

Common Two-banded SeabreamDiplodus vulgarisseen 27× near here

Painted ComberSerranus scribaseen 26× near here

Variable Sea CucumberHolothuria sanctoriseen 26× near here

Smooth Sea StarHacelia attenuataseen 25× near here

Common OctopusOctopus vulgarisseen 24× near here

Fried Egg JellyCotylorhiza tuberculataseen 24× near here

Atlantic Purple Sea UrchinParacentrotus lividusseen 21× near here

Madeira ScorpionfishScorpaena maderensisseen 21× near here

Salema PorgySarpa salpaseen 20× near here

Mediterranean MorayMuraena helenaseen 19× near here

White Sea BreamDiplodus sargusseen 19× near here

Spiny Fan MusselPinna rudisseen 19× near here

BogueBoops boopsseen 14× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

11,186km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. the only logged site in the area.

When people dive it

Busiest Jul, Aug · almost nobody dives it Jan, Mar, Apr, Oct, Nov, Dec.

From 2,991 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

~22h 30m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightIbiza (IBZ)~17h 9mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~2h 51mRoad 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 boatCala Roja- Cabo de Palos~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Cala Roja- Cabo de Palos on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Ibiza

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: Islas Hormigas
Country: Spain
Marks: 37°38.279'N 0°41.401'W
Position: 37.6380, -0.6900
Note: Moved 600 m off the OSM position, into the water

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.