Murcia – Cabo de Palos & Águilas

About Murcia – Cabo de Palos & Águilas

Murcia holds one of Spain’s finest marine reserves at Cabo de Palos – Islas Hormigas, where pinnacles like the Pico de la Virgen swarm with enormous groupers, barracuda, dentex, amberjack and eagle rays, with occasional sunfish. The area is also a wreck graveyard, with the Naranjito, SS Stanfield, El Lago and El Carbonero offering dives at every depth. Further south, Águilas adds the stalactite-hung Cueva de la Virgen sea cave and the deep, technical Sirio transatlantic wreck. Strong currents feed exceptional biodiversity, making Cabo de Palos a bucket-list dive for experienced divers. This region rewards careful planning and respects Spain’s marine-protection rules, offering rewarding diving across a wide range of experience levels through a long and varied season.

Highlights

• ✓Cabo de Palos – Islas Hormigas: pinnacles with huge groupers and pelagics.
• ✓Naranjito wreck: a WWI cargo ship with conger eels and groupers.
• ✓SS Stanfield: a deeper steamer wreck with barracuda and macro.
• ✓Cueva de la Virgen: an Águilas sea cave with stalactites and stalagmites.
• ✓Sirio wreck: a deep, technical 1906 transatlantic liner.

Getting There

Fly into Murcia (RMU) or Alicante (ALC); Cabo de Palos is dived from the village of the same name near La Manga, while Águilas has its own dive centres further south, all by short boat trips.