Gruta dos Enchareús
Description
Access
Boat
20 minutes from the Vila do Porto Marina
Depth
Average Depth
17m
Maximum Depth
32m
Currents
Moderate
Dive Types
Coastal Reef
Cave
Ideal place for
Underwater photography
Diving Experience
Advanced Open Water
Gruta dos Enchareús
Located to the west of the island, about 5 miles from the Vila do Porto Marina, this dive site offers several diving profiles and circuits.
Starting at a depth of 15 metres, you enter a long gallery with two sources of light. You can spot Almaco jacks (Seriola rivoliana) and barred hogfish (Bodianus scrofa) as well as large round stingrays (Taeniura grabata) lying still on the seafloor.
At the end of the gallery, more experienced divers can stay in the protected waters of a passageway that takes them to a depth of 32 metres, where they can visit a wide cave that is regularly home to the schools of white trevallies (Pseudocaranx dentex) that gave the dive site its name.