Marbella Scuba Diving Club - Marbella

El cable Marbella

(Marbella Tower)

Old ironore cargo tower which has been used until the 1970s.. The dive site consists of a towers which is about 250 m off the shoreline in the sea. The tower closer to the shore is visited by divers because of  the tower`s walls nicely covered by interesting marine life (depth 6 m).

On the sea bed at a depth of 11 meters around the tower you can find some broken off segments of the tower which are up to 30 meters long. Even here a lot of marine life can be found. On this dive site there is always schools of wrasses.

Very close to "Torre Marbella" there are 3 wrecks quite close to each other at a depth of only 11 meters. Here you can dive on either by boat or even doing a shore dive. 2 of the wrecks are old cargo ships with a steel body. They have a length of about 60 meters each. The third wreck is a smaller sail boat which is decomposing quite quickly. There is not so much left of one of the wrecks. Here you can find the engines and a nicely covered propeller with a diameter of about 2 meters

Antic wreck

Remains of an ancient ship. It is only 150 meters off the shore in a depth of 5-6 meters. The natives call it the "Galeón" which means galley and they tell us that the cannons were stolen years ago.

Today there are remains of the wooden hull and some of the frame. Impressive is the length of the wreck of about 60 - 70 meters. The whole wreck is covered by marine plants and animals. Schools of wrasses and the Mediterranean trigger fish can be seen frequently. Furthermore all marine life which can be found on the entire Costa del Sol seems to be concentrated here. For that and for its shallowness it is the favorite dive site of the diving beginners.

El pimpollo

From the port of Marbella, this is where we usually do our first dive for OpenWater divers who do two dives. We never do two same dives on the same dive site. We are the only PADI dive center who know how to find this dive site!

In Spanish we call it una laja. This is a huge 90 meters flat stone with rocks around. When the flatness of the stone ends, ther is a drop off of about 4 meters where we can discover the life hiding under the stone. It looks like a little cave diving. Pepe is the biggest gonger eel with white scars we ever seen and he did of this dive site his home. The depth is 14 meters and the visibility is the best when in other place it is average. this is a boat dive.