Barranco Seco
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About this site
Barranco Seco is a boat dive off the high cliffs of Los Gigantes on Tenerife. The area combines sheer vertical walls, sandy bottoms and volcanic formations, and from about 12 metres down there are cracks, caves and passages that shelter moray eels, Canarian spiny lobsters, octopus and large groupers.
With luck, divers may also see rays and angel sharks, and chucho sharks in season. Visibility is usually excellent, and light filtering down past the cliffs gives the dive a distinctive atmosphere.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
OctopusOctopusReported here · unconfirmed
GrouperGrouperReported here · unconfirmed
AngelfishAngelfishReported here · unconfirmed
Canary DamselSimiliparma luridaReported here · unconfirmed
Ornate WrasseThalassoma pavoReported here · unconfirmed
European ParrotfishSparisoma cretenseReported here · unconfirmed
Atlantic DamselfishChromis limbataReported here · unconfirmed
Macaronesian TobyCanthigaster capistrataReported here · unconfirmed
Guinean PufferSphoeroides marmoratusReported here · unconfirmed
East Atlantic Sally Lightfoot CrabGrapsus adscensionisReported here · unconfirmed
Rock GobyGobius paganellusReported here · unconfirmed
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