A small, warm, sub-tropical Atlantic Ocean island with enough tourist visitors to make access easy and facilities plentiful, diving not mainstream but both good and also dependable—this is Lanzarote.

Los Gigantes is a small fishing community on the west side of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. It is named for the enormous cliffs that dominate the shoreline to the north of the village, but the name is equally appropriate for the gigantic rays that frequent the area.

In Columbus’ time, El Hierro was considered the limit of the known world in Europe. For over 1700 years, the smallest island of the Canaries was the land of the Zero Longitude and the ocean beyond was the realm of the unknown. Today, a lighthouse at the Western end of this enigmatic island marks the meridian site. Hierro’s claim to fame does not end here. It is a beautiful and wild island of many contrasts. One of them being a near absence of tourists...

Researchers at Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) explore the biodiversity of several submerged areas of the Canary Islands, candidates to become Marine Protected Areas.

A team of marine biologists, divers and photographers, diving to 70 meters off Lanzarote to explore the biggest forest in the world of the Black coral Gerardia savaglia where large specimens are hundreds of years old forming an unique underwater sanctuary.

The Spanish-American-German dive expedition ventured into the world's longest underwater lava tube, on the island of Lanzarote in the Spanish-ruled Canary Islands. One of their findings was a new species of eyeless crustacean.

High concentrations of mauve stinger jelllyfish have been discovered near the Balearic Islands in Spain and in other parts of the Mediterranean