Another year and the time had come for my clubs annual trip to Cabo de Palos in Spain! Our first dive was a DPV dive on the wreck of the Carbonero, an hour navigation away on the dive boat. Although I’ve dived this wreck a few times now, it was the first time I had dived it with a DPV. The very same afternoon we did a dive on one of the sea mounts, as usual, full of marine life: barracudas, large groupers etc. On our second day, we were supposed to do a Technical Dive at the

On the first week of June every year, the Gibraltar Sub Aqua Club (GSAC 888) arrange a club dive trip to Cabo de Palos in Spain. This time it was my 3rd time visiting the place! It’s always a long 5 and a half hours drive up from home but it’s definitely worth it, and anyways, I love driving long distances! Day 1 involved a 1 hour boat ride to “El Carbonero” wreck. We had tried diving this wreck last year in June, but the visibility was very poor, returning in September last

Here I was again! I loved the diving so much, I decided to return with another diver from our club. This time I went for a day less, I was running out of annual leave at work! The largest sea mount in the Marine Reserve called “Bajo de Afuera” can be seen from the surface, with its highest point at 5 metres. The walls drop off down to 50 metres on the seabed. Lots of boats have crashed into this sea mount, and now lie as wrecks, scattered around the mount. Due to its depth, s

When someone mentioned to me in the dive club “Cabo de Palos” in Spain and that they were going on their annual dive trip to here in June, the first thing that came to my mind was, “where exactly is this place, and why have I not heard of it before”. Well it turned out to be one of the best places I have dived, just a few hours up the coast in Spain from where we live! The BSAC club I belong to, travel to Cabo de Palos annually in June, sometimes more than once a year. It is