Massa d'Or (la Rata)

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What you'll see (20)

Common Two-banded SeabreamDiplodus vulgarisseen 81× near here

Mediterranean MorayMuraena helenaseen 72× near here

Common OctopusOctopus vulgarisseen 62× near here

Mediterranean Rainbow WrasseCoris julisseen 62× near here

Painted ComberSerranus scribaseen 62× near here

Gorgon's HeadAstrospartus mediterraneusseen 62× near here

Mediterranean Violet AeolidFlabellina affinisseen 60× near here

White Sea BreamDiplodus sargusseen 58× near here

Yellowmouth BarracudaSphyraena viridensisseen 57× near here

Cratena SlugCratena peregrinaseen 53× near here

Salema PorgySarpa salpaseen 53× near here

Leopard Sea SlugPeltodoris atromaculataseen 51× near here

Regal Sea GoddessFelimare pictaseen 51× near here

Mediterranean Fairy BassletAnthias anthiasseen 50× near here

Mediterranean Red Sea StarEchinaster sepositusseen 47× near here

Black-faced BlennyTripterygion delaisiseen 47× near here

Incognito GobyGobius incognitusseen 44× near here

snakelocks anemoneAnemonia viridisseen 43× near here

Mystery BlennyParablennius incognitusseen 42× near here

Tricolored FelimareFelimare tricolorseen 40× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

10,765km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 6 dive sites within 25km.

When people dive it

Busiest Aug · almost nobody dives it Mar.

From 30,610 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

71% 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

~21h 3m

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~1h 33mRoad 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 boatMassa d'Or (la Rata)~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Massa d'Or (la Rata) 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

Island: S'Arenella
Country: Spain
Marks: 42°19.199'N 3°19.890'E
Position: 42.3200, 3.3315

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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.