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Top Snorkeling and Scuba Diving in Roses
Ready to check out the best sites in Roses for scuba diving, snorkeling, shore diving, free diving or other ocean activities? Zentacle has 7 dive sites, snorkel spots, beaches, and more. Discover hand-curated maps, along with reviews and photos from nature lovers like you.
No matter what you're looking for, you can find a diverse range of the best ocean activities in Roses to suit your needs.
#1 - La isla bonita
Spain, Costa Brava, Rosas
You can start by the Bau de Cap Falco shaol. Insted of going south, go northeast, cross the sandy channel and dive around the large reef named la isla bonita.
There are a lot of tiny lobstars in the reef cracks...
Just 100m northeast of the Bau de Cap Falco dive site.
#2 - Cap Norfeo Sud
Spain, Costa Brava, Rosas
This is a great dive site. A very nice drop off, full of red gorgonians; groupers, octopuses, fish shoals... probably one of the best dive site of the area.
5 nautical miles east of Roses harbour. Cap de Norfeo is just after the Punta de la Creu.
Cap Norfeo Sud is also known as Cap Norfeu.
#3 - El Gat
Spain, Costa Brava, Rosas
This is a DEEP dive for experienced divers only! The wall of El Gat starts by a white gorgonian field, then a red gorgonian field down to 55 meters deep.
You can end your dive around El Gat, or to the Cap Norfeu's pool.
Just on the east side of the rock named El Gat, because of its two cat ears. This is the eastern side of the dive site named Cap Norfeu.
El Gat is also known as The cat, Le chat, El gato.
#4 - Bau de Cap Falco
Spain, Costa Brava, Rosas
Very nice shoal. The top is at 4 m deep, the bottom of the shoal is approx 36 m. There is a drop off on the southwest side.
Some lobsters in the cracks and holes, and a lot of octopuses.
Approx 3 nautical miles east of Roses, just after the Punta de Falconera. There is a mooring buoy marking the shoal.
Bau de Cap Falco is also known as Falco's bay.
#5 - Saint Prosper Wreck
Spain, Costa Brava, Rosas
The Saint Prosper was a cargo built in 1920. She sunk on a floating mine march 8th 1939. It has been discovered in 1967 by the C.R.I.S. (Centro de Récupéraciones e investigagaciones submarinas) divers.
Vessel size: 106 m long, 4330 tons.
This is a deep dive for experienced divers only! Take care of the nets if you dive the Saint Prosper.
In the middle of Roses bay.
Saint Prosper Wreck is also known as El gancho.
#6 - Bau Cap Trencat de Fora
Spain, Costa Brava, Rosas
Beware of boat traffic!
The big shoal is good, there is a drop off on the northeast side, and 3 tunnels between the two main part of the shoal.
Like many other dive sites, octopuses, groupers and morrays.
3 nautical miles east of Roses, just 0.45 miles northeast of Punta de Falconera. There are two mooring buoys, the best is the southernmost one.