Top Snorkeling and Scuba Diving in Sardinia
Ready to check out the best sites in Sardinia for scuba diving, snorkeling, shore diving, free diving or other ocean activities? Zentacle has 28 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 Sardinia to suit your needs.
#1 - Gli Archetti
Italy, Sardegna, Oristano
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Good Dive, you can pass under many little archs populated by many Corals
The dive site is just 300 mt North Est from Mal Di
ventre Island, it takes about 20 minutes by boat to
reach it from Capo Mannu, or from Mandriola Bay, the
dive site is under a lonely rock and you can easily
find it.
Gli Archetti is also known as Faraglioni.
#2 - Spalmatore
Italy, Sardegna, La Maddalena
beginner
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Beautiful sandy area with sea grass and jellyfish. Very relaxing.
La Maddalena
Spalmatore is also known as Cala Spalmatore.
#3 - Capo Caccia
Italy, Sardegna, Alghero
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Network of caves underneath Capo Caccia. Very interesting dives, with caves of various sizes at different depths.
#4 - Galera
Italy, Sardegna, La Maddalena
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Parts of a wreck of a fishermans boat, scorpionfish, roman amphores
Caprera Island
Galera is also known as Punta Galera.
#5 - Coticcio
Italy, Sardegna, La Maddalena
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Amphores, Rocks, lobsters
Caprera Island
Coticcio is also known as Punta Coticcio.
#6 - Punta Tegge
Italy, Sardegna, La Maddalena
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Beautiful granite rock formations. Lots of scorpion fish, octopus, slipper crabs.
Punta Tegge is also known as Tegge.
#8 - Punta Guardiano
Italy, Sardegna, Cagliari
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You moor boat close to the island shore.
Granitic shore slopes downward to the sand bottom at 30mt.
Between granitic boulders you find morays and octopuses.
Groupers are a guaranteed encounter, depending on the drift you may also see dentex, sea bream, barracudas.
Isola Serpentara. By boat, only with authorized local diving centers since it is within protected marine area of Capo Carbonara.
Punta Guardiano is also known as Il Guardiano.
#9 - Secca di Santa Caterina
Italy, Sardegna, Cagliari
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Villasimius
Secca di Santa Caterina is also known as Santa Caterina.
#11 - Washington rock
Italy, Sardegna, La Maddalena
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look for yellow sunken buoy. aprox. 1 meter under water. buoy attached to gound at 17 meters.
#12 - Punta li Francesi
Italy, Sardegna
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Punta li Francesi is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in Italy, Sardegna which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.
#13 - Le Grottace
Italy, Sardegna, Orosei
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nother "shallow" dive below a steep rock wall with some caves, thus his name. The sandy bottom on 45ft/14mt. is covered with some huge, house size rocks covered with marine life. You can dive under some of this huge rocks and may have unexpected encounters with big marine life.
A good place to see the big velvet starfish, groupers, breams, baracudas and much sponges, polyps and coral like sea life.
Acess by boat from Orosei harbour as the dive spot is on a steep wall with no access by walking.
#14 - Biancas Garden
Italy, Sardegna, Orosei
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A large patch of uninteresting sea weed turns in a very intersting dive site full of crevices and small holes from a ancient lava flow. The walls of this crevices are covered with innummerous gorgoinai sea fans, sponges and coral like structures. We are still exploring this surprising place.
Departure by boat from the harbour of Orosei as it's too far from shore to swim and there may be heavy boat traffic im summer time.
#15 - The Bow (of the KT12 Wreck)
Italy, Sardegna, Orosei
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HE KriegsTransporter KT12 - a german one-design 834 ton transport ship- was built in Livorno (Italy) by the OTO Shipyard, and commissioned to the German Kriegsmarine in May, 1943.
She was torpedoed on 10 June 1943 by the british submarine HMS Safari on its maiden voyage with a cargo of fuel and vehicles for North Africa.
The blast from the torpedo ripped away the bow sinking it immediatly about 300 meters away from the actual position of the wreck, while the bowless and burning ship sunk after 41 minutes.
The bow is rather small - approx 10 meters/yards long - and resting on its port side on a sandy bottom. It is a scenic dive and often you will encounter groupers, shade fish/sea bass, amberjacks and dentex bream.
The Bow from the KT12 wreck is about 300 meters/yards south of the wreck. As he is very small it's almost impossible to find without the exact coordinates of a GPS.
I suggest to use one of the local dive operator to get there.
The Bow (of the KT12 Wreck) is also known as La Prua.
#16 - Secca di Punta Nera di Osala
Italy, Sardegna, Orosei
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Secca di Punta Nera di Osala is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in Italy, Sardegna, Orosei which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.
#18 - Cala dell'Oro
Italy, Sardegna, La Maddalena
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Cala dell'Oro is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in Italy, Sardegna, La Maddalena which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.
#19 - Cala di Trana
Italy, Sardegna, La Maddalena
beginner
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Cala di Trana is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in Italy, Sardegna, La Maddalena which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.
#20 - Grotta di Nettuno
Italy, Sardegna, Alghero
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Grotta di Nettuno is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in Italy, Sardegna, Alghero which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.
#21 - Punta Zanetto - Plane engine
Italy, Sardegna, La Maddalena
beginner
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A lone engine from an Italian tri-motor bomber rests on the seabed
#22 - Punta Agnadda
Italy, Sardegna
beginner
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Punta Agnadda is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in Italy, Sardegna which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.
#23 - Punta Sabina
Italy, Sardegna
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Punta Sabina is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in Italy, Sardegna which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.
#24 - Punta Salippi
Italy, Sardegna
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Punta Salippi is a 0-star rated scuba dive and snorkel destination in Italy, Sardegna which is accessible from shore based on 0 ratings.
#25 - Secca Del Papa
Italy, Sardegna, Tavolara
intermediate
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One of the best sites in Italy and the whole Mediterranean Sea : you can find can almost all the marine species of the Mediterranean Sea but, above all, groupers and barracudas.
Call this diving for more info: http://www.centrosubtavolara.com/
South-eastern coast of Tavolara. The pinnacle is 300m out of the Punta del Papa ("Pope's Point"). Access by boat from Porto San Paolo (Close to Olbia) or dive centers in the are.
#26 - Secche dei Monaci
Italy, Sardegna
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wild blue : big schools of barracuda, great quantity of fish, old big anchor down on the ground, hight probability to find strong current as the site is situated far from land.
Secche dei Monaci is also known as Monaci.
#27 - Punta Nera di Osala
Italy, Sardegna, Orosei
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A large ancient lava flow created a huge maze of canyons, walls, rocks and is surrounded by white sand bottom. The walls are covered by sea weed, gorgonia sea fans, sponges, false corals and tons of marine life.
A easy, long and colourful dive for divers who appreciate shallow, relaxed dives.
Easiest arrival is by boat from the Harbour of Orosei, but this dive site can be visited also from shore, but it's still a long way to swim from the beach of Osala or Cartoe.
Beware of heavy boat traffic from the several rental boats nearby, use absolutely a suface marker buoy or better a boat above!
#28 - KT12 Wreck
Italy, Sardegna, Orosei
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HE KriegsTransporter KT12 - a german one-design 834 ton transport ship- was built in Livorno (Italy) by the OTO Shipyard, and commissioned to the German Kriegsmarine in May, 1943.
Torpedoed on 10 June 1943 by the british submarine HMS Safari on its maiden voyage with a cargo of fuel and vehicles for North Africa.
The blast from the torpedo ripped away the bow sinking it immediatly about 300 meters away from the actual position of the wreck, while the bowless and burning ship sunk after 41 minutes.
There are so much things to see that you can do hundreds of dives and still discover new things.
Just to name a few: canon, MG stands, steering wheel, toilet bowl, anchor, machine room, engines, cargo bays, groupers, amberjacks, scorpion fish, and, and, and...
Access to the dive site is only by boat as she rests rougly one mile from the harbour of Orosei. As the site is quite hard to find and there are millions of things to see i recommend to go with one of the local dive shops. There may be a mooring line, but usually invisible 3m/10ft under water to avoid that other boats get entangled in it.